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Jonathan Majors is returning to the big screen — this time in a project backed by conservative media company The Daily Wire.
According to Deadline, Majors has been cast in an untitled action film directed by filmmaker Kyle Rankin, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is being produced by The Daily Wire, the media company co-founded by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, along with producer Dallas Sonier.
Production is reportedly underway in South Carolina.
Plot details have not been released, but Deadline reports the film draws inspiration from 1980s and 1990s action movies, including Red Dawn and Toy Soldiers.
The project marks Majors’ first confirmed major film role following his 2024 conviction in a New York domestic violence case. In December 2023, a Manhattan jury found Majors guilty of misdemeanor assault and harassment stemming from an incident involving his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.
He was later sentenced in April 2024 to probation and ordered to complete a 52-week domestic violence intervention program.
In the aftermath of the conviction, Disney and Marvel Studios severed ties with Majors, ending his role as Kang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Searchlight Pictures also dropped Magazine Dreams, the bodybuilding drama he starred in, from its release schedule.
The Daily Wire has previously backed projects featuring actors whose careers were disrupted by controversy. The company produced Terror on the Prairie starring Gina Carano after she was fired from Disney’s The Mandalorian, as well as Frontier Crucible featuring Armie Hammer, following public allegations made against him. Hammer has denied criminal wrongdoing and was not charged.
Before his legal troubles, Majors had emerged as one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising actors, earning early acclaim for The Last Black Man in San Francisco and later starring in Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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