"Star Wars" filmmaker JJ Abrams is developing a new drama chronicling the final months of King of Pop Michael Jackson's life.
Abrams and his partners at production company Bad Robot have teamed up with author, activist and US broadcaster Tavis Smiley to adapt his upcoming biography "Before You Judge Me", reported Deadline.
Abrams and Smiley will serve as executive producers for the event series, though no network has picked up the drama yet.
Smiley and the Bad Robot partners last worked together on the 2015 adaptation of Smiley's Martin Luther King, Jr book "Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Year.
