The legendary late Michael Jackson will be played by British actor, Joseph Fiennes, in a new drama specially made for UK TV by the Sky Arts Channel.

The one-off special will dramatise a fictionalised journey by Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando taken after the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001.

Taylor will be played by Stockard Channing and Brando by Brian Cox.

The story is based on a story Vanity Fair printed in 2011 claiming the trio all hitched a ride leaving New York after the terrorist attacks as they were unable to fly. According to Vanity Fair they drove down to Ohio where they managed to catch a plane to California. Vanity Fair claim Taylor's former personal assistant revealed the details of the road trip.

Fiennes recently starred in Hercules and American Horror Story but he became well-known starring opposite Gwenyth Paltrow in 'Shakespeare in Love'.

Channing is famous for playing Betty Rizzo in 'Grease' as well as, more recently, the First Lady in 'The West Wing'.

Watch a Joseph Fiennes interview, Stockard Channing in 'Grease' and Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel' video below: