This is Michael Jackson‘s nephew Jaafar Jackson all set to painting the King of Pop on the set of the upcoming MJ biopic — and we gotta say, he is the spitting picture of his late uncle.

Jaafar was in full hair, make-up and costume Thursday on location within the Encino space of Los Angeles, the place cameras have been rolling for “Michael” … the primary official movie to sort out the MJ’s life on the large display screen.

JJ is Jermaine Jackson‘s son, BTW, and he appears eerily just like his well-known relative right here.

Lionsgate, the studio behind the upcoming biopic, dropped the primary have a look at Jackson as MJ earlier this week … a photograph replicating Michael’s 1992-1993 Harmful Tour. In that promo pic, too, Jaafar was severely channeling MJ … passing as a useless ringer for the entertainer.

Now, we’re getting a barely totally different view of Jaafar as Michael … this time, he is a bit extra formal with a white button-down shirt and a tie — and we are able to actually see how he appears.

Nia Lengthy joined Jaafar on set right here on Thursday … keep in mind, she’s enjoying Michael’s mom, Katherine Jackson. She’s additionally absolutely reworked — and fairly unrecognizable.

Like Jaafar, Nia’s additionally a doppelganger for her character … not very totally different than what we noticed final week when she, Colman Domingo (enjoying Joe Jackson) and different actors portraying the youthful Jackson 5. All of them have been absolutely immersed of their roles, and seemed nice.

Jaafar, in fact, is the star … and from the appears of it, he has change into Michael Jackson.

The highly-anticipated biopic will not hit theaters till April 2025 … and all the pieces we have seen to date appears to be hitting the mark, no less than visually.

We’ll see the way it all performs out when it lastly will get launched — lord is aware of MJ’s many followers might be watching, and albeit … so will we.