Bad luck and legal cases follow Michal Jackson like bad financial deals follow Bernie Madoff! No sooner than a morsel of good news comes Jackson’s way than he gets hit with yet another legal suit.

Last week it was revealed that the beleaguered, and now semi reclusive singer Jackson, had negotiated on the production of his Thriller video being made into Broadway musical, but that isn’t quite the way John Landis sees it.

Landis has now come forward and claimed that Jackson had no right to offer his hit, Thriller to Broadway moguls because he was in fact the writer and director behind the original production and had not been informed of the move to take the masterpiece to the masses of New York City.

Landis isn’t totally against the production hitting the theater district in Manhattan, he just wants his cut and has, through a lawyer, stated that an L.A. Country Superior Court Judge should seek to have Landis’ name on the contract before it becomes legal and the show hit’s the boards!

Although Jackson paid $400,000 for the rights to the musical from the Nederlander Organization (a play on Neverland-er, maybe Jacko should sue for that?) Landis still insists that the Billy Jean singer cant cut a deal without his consent.

But Landis himself is in dispute with the company who hired him to produce the video, as they also haven’t received their 50% share of the video’s profit over the past four years.