Starring in the gentrification drama The Last Black Man In San Francisco, Spike Lee’s Netflix war drama Da 5 Bloods and the critically acclaimed HBO horror series Lovecraft Country, Jonathan Majors has quickly become one of Hollywood’s hottest new ascended stars. Then when Disney hired him for the MCU, it was a real coup for Marvel, which was making big plans for the majors.
Having made his MCU debut as the multiverse Guardian He Who Remains (a variant of the legendary comic book villain Kang) in the series Loki, he recently appeared as Kang in Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania itself – receiving another great deal of encouragement. In the MCU’s current “Multiverse Saga”, Kang would become something like the new Thanos as the overwhelming villain, which will end in the grand double finale “Avengers 5: The Kang Dynasty” (Theatrical release: April 30, 2025) and “Avengers 6: Secret Wars” (theatrical release: April 29, 2026) must be overcome.
But the latest reports about Jonathan Majors now put a question mark over whether he’ll actually stay in the MCU…
First consequences for Jonathan Majors
Following an incident on March 25, 2023, Majors was temporarily arrested and is currently facing domestic violence charges. An argument with a 30-year-old woman is said to have led to her being taken to hospital with minor head and neck injuries. The actor is due to appear in court on May 8, 2023 to comment on the alleged crime, according to a complaint from the New York State Attorney’s Office.
But the consequences of the events for Major’s career are already intensifying. Not only did they cost the 33-year-old two ad deals (for the US military and a baseball team), but his management has since parted ways with him. And now it has caught the first movie roles. How reported, Jonathan Majors will no longer star in the book adaptationThe man in my basement‘ (which he would produce) and in the Otis Redding biopic ‘Otis And Zelma’ (which also fell through the deal). And this could be just the beginning…
What will become of Kang?
It’s still unclear what impact the allegations against majors will have on his essential MCU role. There is currently conflicting information in media circles as to whether Marvel is already seriously discussing the subject. The team around Kevin Feige and parent company Disney may first wait for the court hearing in May to determine how to proceed with the case.
From the point of view of the Major’s defense, there seems to be at least good opposition to the case being heard at an early stage. His lawyer has already published messages that allegedly come from the alleged victim, who takes responsibility for what happened and protects Majors. However, the woman has not yet commented on the case.
However, should the allegations against Majors hold true, it’s more likely that Marvel will consider recasting Kang.then suddenly cut off the figure that is so integral to the further development of the franchise story and thus completely throw the previous plans overboard. But that’s just speculation at the moment, of course.
However, the fact is that Majors has already completed his next MCU appearance as Kang in the second season of “Loki”, which will be released in 2023. And the already completed bodybuilder drama “Magazine Dreams” (for which the Majors already garnered euphoric praise at this year’s Sundance Film Festival) is scheduled to be released by Disney later this year, in time for the next Oscar season. . In these two cases too, it remains exciting how this will be dealt with if the upcoming hearing date does not end in Major’s favour.