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Dan Reed is a British film director whose film, In the Shadow of 9/11, about the Liberty City Seven, aired on Frontline on PBS. Reed is widely known for the controversial, critically acclaimed documentary Leaving Neverland .
Oct 21, 2020 · EXCLUSIVE: Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed is embroiled in a legal wrangle with Michael Jackson ‘s legacy companies as he attempts to shoot a sequel to his explosive, Emmy-winning Channel...
Leaving Neverland is a 2019 made-for-television documentary film directed and produced by Dan Reed. It focuses on two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who allege they were sexually abused as children by the American singer Michael Jackson .
Reed is a director, screenplay writer and an international recording artist. Signed to 'Polygram Records' in 1988, his band 'Dan Reed Network' released 3 albums for the label, leading them to tour throughout the US and Europe with Bon Jovi, the Rolling Stones, UB40 to name a few.
- Actor, Writer, Producer
- February 17, 1963
- Dan Reed
- He's Been Making Documentaries For Decades
- He Did Not Know Much About Michael Jackson
- The Reaction at Sundance
- Jackson's Hard CORE Fans Are Attacking Him
- But Most People Fall in A Grey Area
- He Credits The #Metoo Movement
Dan Reed has been making documentary films for more than 20 years. He has covered subjects ranging from the 9/11 attacks to sex work to Christianity and religion to natural disasters and beyond. When he set out to tell Wade Robson and James Safechuck's stories, he was careful to take the time to research and verify what they were telling him. He to...
Reed did not know about Michael Jackson or much about the allegations against the singer before he began working on Leaving Neverland. He hired a researcher to dive into the claims made by the men who have accused the pop singer of sexual abuse. He also says the fim isn't about Michael Jackson. It is about Robson and Safechuck coming to terms with ...
Reed took Leaving Neverland to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. He said the audience's reaction humbed and surprised him At the end of the film, he received a standing ovation. He was not expecting that given the pedestal people put Michael Jackson on for so long. The Sundance audience's reaction was positive. “We didn’t know how peop...
Reed calls the fans of Michael Jackson that resent anything bad being said about their idol"MJ cultists."The attacks from Jackson's hardcore fans did not stop Reed from making the documentary. "You have the people I call the 'MJ cultists', people who are just fanatical devotees and their first response is to be very vicious and nasty and will fling...
Outside of the cult of Michael Jackson, Reed found that most people fell into a grey area,"where they’re like, ‘Yeah he was maybe a bit weird, a bit dodgy, maybe he was a pedophile, but we don’t really know’. And that’s the space that Jackson has inhabited since 2005, since he was acquitted. Most people have never been confronted with the evidence ...
Reed believes that the #MeToo movement opened more people up to being able to actually hear the message in Leaving Neverland. The #MeToo movement helped convince Wade Robson’s mother to appear in the film. "I think we’re blessed with a kind of gathering momentum behind the idea that we should listen to the people who say they’ve been sexually abuse...
Jan 30, 2019 · Director Dan Reed discusses his new HBO documentary, which profiles two men who say they were repeatedly molested by the pop superstar before puberty.
Reed is a director, screenplay writer and an international recording artist. Signed to 'Polygram Records' in 1988, his band 'Dan Reed Network' released 3 albums for the label, leading them to tour throughout the US and Europe with Bon Jovi, the Rolling Stones, UB40 to name a few.
