Jonathan Majors is preparing for his Hollywood return in an untitled new movie, produced by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro through his right-wing media company, The Daily Wire.
Written and directed by Kyle Rankin, the upcoming film — which has started production in South Carolina — marks the 36-year-old Marvel actor’s first on-screen role since being convicted in 2023 of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
Shapiro, 42, will co-produce alongside Dallas Sonnier for his Bonfire Legend production company. Travis Mills (Frontier Crucible), Lillian Campbell (The Pendragon Cycle), and Sydney Aucreman (Terror On The Prairie) are also producing, according to Deadline.
“You’re not going to BELIEVE what we’re doing,” Shapiro wrote in a post on X accompanying the Deadline story.
Details of the film’s plot and additional cast are being kept tightly under wraps, but it’s reportedly being likened to action movies Red Dawn and Toy Soldiers, which were both about a group of boys uniting to fight an enemy invasion.
Just as Majors’s acting career was beginning to flourish following his roles in Ant-Man 3 and Creed III, it came to an abrupt halt when he was arrested in 2023 and charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment after an altercation with Jabbari.
Later that year, he stood trial, where he was found guilty of two counts of misdemeanor assault and harassment. He was found not guilty of one count of assault in the third degree and aggravated harassment in the second degree.
The actor avoided jail time but was sentenced to a year-long domestic abuse prevention program in April 2024.
Majors, who was expected to reprise his villainous role as Kang the Conqueror in Marvel’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, was subsequently dropped by the studio. The film was effectively canceled and replaced by the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday.
“I just want to clear the record, yeah it sucks. It sucks, right? Like boom, you get the verdict, then boom [you’re dropped], but Marvel’s not mishandling anything by it coming through the grapevine,” Majors told Variety at the time.
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“I got the job through the grapevine. [Kevin Feige] didn’t call me and say ‘Hey, do you want to do the movie? Do you want to be this guy?’ My agent called me and said it. Then an agent of mine — not my agent — got the news, turned and gave it to me straight. So, I reached out to Kevin.”
Majors said he wrote a letter to Feige because he always “appreciated him.” “I just love him. I loved my time at Marvel, and I still love Kang,” he added. “I’m watching them. I see what they’re doing and I’m pulling for them. If they need me, they know where I’m at.”
Nearly a year after his guilty verdict, Majors married Meagan Good.
“I said to Meagan yesterday, ‘Today might be the happiest day of my life,’” an emotional Majors said on a 2025 episode of the Sherri show. “I love that woman so much. We fell in love. We finally got to do it, but it was always the plan.”
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