It appears the people closest to Michael Jackson before he passed away all thought he was ok, loving the preparations for the This is IT! concerts… he did leave us too soon…

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• 2 cameras and a documentary style group shot the This Is It Film.
  
• Kenny Ortega first turned down the idea of directing This is It! movie

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And from the moment on June 25 when Jackson was pronounced dead in Los Angeles – rendering moot the final preparations for the London series of Jackson comeback concerts Ortega was directing – this was a film that Ortega, who owes Jackson a good hunk of his career (he directed Jackson's concert tours in the '90s) and who loved him from the bottom of his heart, had no choice but to make.

For one thing, there were at least three sources of footage from the rehearsals for these concerts, slated to begin in July.

The first was from a two-camera crew that originally was creating an archival record of the process for Jackson's personal use. “Michael documented everything,” Ortega says. “The way we started constructing this show was by looking at his old documentary footage.” The second was the interactive, 3-D films that had already been made by Jackson and Ortega, and that were intended to be shown on the massive high-definition screen planned for the O2 arena. The third was material shot by a separate crew that was filming documentary-style footage – interviews and the like – that would have been an addendum to the likely movie version of the live Jackson London concerts, had they gone well.

Had they gone at all.

for more.....read Chris Jones article at the Chicago Tribune..
http://www.chicagotribune.com/…hael-jackson…