Taika Waititi, Netflix Pull Out of Michael Jackson Movie ‘Bubbles’

Taika Waititi has exited as the director of Netflix's stop-motion animated movie Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson's longtime chimpanzee, and Collider has confirmed that Netflix has pulled out of the project as well. Cartoon Brew broke the news, reporting that scheduling conflicts with WB's Akira forced Waititi to exit Bubbles, and with the director no longer involved, Netflix also decided to step away. An individual familiar with the streaming service's thinking told Collider that "Taika didn't have the bandwidth to devote to it, and since he was the big draw, it …

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