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Canceled Marvel Star Finds New Life In Upcoming Action Flick
By Jennifer Asencio
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Once again, Disney’s loss is Daily Wire’s gain. The House of Mouse famously fired Gina Carano from The Mandalorian, and Daily Wire scooped her up for a movie project that turned into Terror on the Prairie. Now they’re giving new life to actor Jonathan Majors, who was dismissed from numerous projects in 2023, including the role of Kang the Conqueror in the MCU, after being found guilty of assault against his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.
Jonathan Majors’ New Daily Wire Movie
Filming has begun in South Carolina on an unnamed action film said to be a throwback to 80s and 90s teen adventures. Reports are comparing it to Red Dawn or Toy Soldiers. Other cast members in addition to Majors have been announced, including comedian Dave Lucas, soap opera star Savannah Leigh James, and The Pendragon Cycle hero Myles Clohessy. The movie is based on a script by writer-director Kyle Rankin.
Rankin is known for Run Hide Fight, which is a movie about a group of angry high school students who hold their school hostage at gunpoint while a lone classmate risks her life to rescue as many students from them as she can. This new movie will operate on a grander scale, with a group of heroic teens defending their home from an unnamed threat. Given Run Hide Fight as a preview of Rankin’s work, this new movie sounds promising.
This is good news for Majors, who has been blacklisted from making movies after an illustrious career that included Creed III, the award-winning The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and the HBO series Lovecraft Country. After his 2023 conviction, he was sentenced to a year of probation and a domestic violence program, his participation in which earned him the Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards’ Perseverance Award for his continued efforts to “aspire to inspire.”
Hollywood tends to be unforgiving of certain transgressions, no matter what efforts are made to atone for them. It’s as if people are not allowed to have careers or success if they cross a certain line. Gina Carano was canceled for much less than Majors, by making a tweet on then-Twitter comparing cancel culture to the Holocaust. The recent release of Scream 7 is facing boycotts and negative critics’ reviews, intended to punish the production for firing franchise star Melissa Barrera for making anti-Israel social media posts. Rehabilitation is viewed skeptically by the industry, if it is acknowledged at all.
A Developing Redemption Arc
Jonathan Majors paid his debt to society. His sentence ended in 2025, and he managed to rehabilitate himself in the process. He is even currently happily married. However, the court of public opinion is still trying him so much that Ben Shapiro made a short response video critical of those complaining that Majors has been hired for a movie. The same people who are always preaching that violent criminals should be shown mercy are showing none to a man who has served his entire sentence already.
If Hollywood is going to reject talent over past transgressions, no one should be surprised when that talent goes elsewhere. These days, “elsewhere” seems to be Daily Wire as they build their library of original feature films. It’s funny how an allegedly “far right” studio is more forgiving than an entire “inclusive” industry. Jonathan Majors is the latest benefactor of Daily Wire’s willingness to let artists’ pasts stay in the past.