British actor Joseph Fiennes will soon be seen playing the late Michael Jackson in a forthcoming British TV comedy about a story involving Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brandowidely considered an urban myth in the USA. The show will be called “Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon,” is being described as a dramatisation of Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando driving out of New York City together after the 9/11 attacks.

Fiennes, 45, is a well-regarded actor, a BAFTA winner and a SAG nominee, and best remembered as Shakespeare in Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love. But, he was born 12 years after Jackson and is paler than Jackson was even at the height of his vitigilo skin-blotching condition.

Sky Arts, the television channel producing this show called it a “light hearted look at a reportedly true event.” The show will air this year, though the exact date hasn’t been announced.