The trailer for the project -- released Wednesday -- has done little to assuage that furor.
"Urban Myths" tells a series of stories, including a fabled one in which Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor (played by Stockard Channing) and Marlon Brando (played by Brian Cox) supposedly took a cross-country road trip after 9/11.
The trailer has Twitter beside itself.
"The most disrespectful thing I've ever seen" one person tweeted.