Jonathan Majors Officially Fired
Jonathan Majors Officially Fired from Marvel Studios.
Due to an alleged incident that happened in March, Majors was recently brought to trial following allegations of domestic violence. On Monday, he was found guilty on charges of assault and harassment. After the verdict was announced, it was confirmed by a Marvel Studios representative that Majors will not return for any future MCU projects, per Deadline. Majors had recently appeared in the second season of Loki after debuting as Kang in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Jonathan Majors Officially Fired
While this isn’t a great time for Majors, with the actor also potentially facing one year behind bars, he did get some good news in that he was found not guilty on additional charges of intentional assault and aggravated harassment in the second degree. His attorney, Priya Chaudhry, has also suggested that the legal battle isn’t over just yet. Suggesting that there would be an appeal, she said in a statement after the verdict was announced that Majors “looks forward to fully clearing his name.” She added, “Mr. Majors is grateful to God, his family, his friends, and his fans for their love and support during these harrowing eight months.” Jonathan Majors Officially Fired
Jonathan Majors Officially Fired
Getting fired by Marvel Studios comes after there had been reports that the company was already considering moving forward without Majors in light of his legal troubles. Other companies were also quicker to cut ties with Majors when the allegations were first made public. That included getting immediately dropped from an ad campaign for the U.S. Army that was imminently set to start airing. He was also dropped from multiple movies he had been attached to, and Disney recently pulled his upcoming film, Magazine Dreams, from its planned theatrical release in December.
Majors was on the rise in Hollywood when his legal troubles began. He had just appeared in two major motion pictures with key roles in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Creed III, and there were very big plans for him in the MCU, as he would’ve been the major antagonist in at least one of the upcoming Avengers films. Majors had also garnered acclaim with his upcoming film Magazine Dreams in its early reviews ahead of its release. The actor previously found praise with his role in HBO’s Lovecraft Country and appeared in films like The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Da 5 Bloods, and Devotion.
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Jonathan Majors Officially Fired
Marvel Studios fired Majors on December 18, the same day a jury found him guilty on two domestic-violence charges. The actor was set to play Kang, the leading antagonist in the MCU’s next phase of superhero tales. Filmed months before his arrest, Loki season two aired in October with Majors in a prominent role. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (2025), billed as an epic conclusion to Marvel’s multiverse saga, was headed to production early next year. Now, the future of that film — and the MCU in general — is not going to plan.
Magazine Dreams, the bodybuilding drama he received early praise for at Sundance, was removed from the theatrical-release calendar, per The Hollywood Reporter, on October 27 in a move unrelated to the actors strike.
Several projects in development dropped Majors from their cast. According to Deadline on April 20, the actor will no longer star in the film adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel The Man in My Basement or be considered for the unannounced Fifth Season’s Otis Redding biopic, Otis and Zelma. He was also announced as a part of Spike Lee’s Da Understudy, but there have been no further updates on that film since March 7, 2023. Variety revealed in September 2022 that Majors was in “early talks” to play Dennis Rodman in Lionsgate’s 48 Hours in Vegas, though there have been no updates on that film either.
Jonathan Majors Officially Fired