Landis was in London preparing to shoot his latest film, Burke and Hare, when he heard the news of Jackson’s death, returning to Los Angeles to attend the memorial service. “It was a shock, but not unexpected.” He reminisces about how during the making of Thriller, after the producer Quincy Jones refused to give him the master tracks to remix and recut, he and Jackson essentially stole the original tracks of Thriller to create an 11-minute version of an approximately three-minute song. “I’ll tell you now because I don’t care any more,” he says, seeming to enjoy the memory. “So Michael and I went in the middle of the night to the recording studio and we ‘borrowed’ the tracks, took them to [a sound engineer] and duped them. What we did was very illegal, but the statute of limitations is up.”
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