Jonathan Majors Fired By Disney/Marvel Studios After Assault Guilty Verdict – Deadline
Jonathan Majors Fired By Disney/Marvel Studios After Assault Guilty Verdict – Deadline
Jonathan Majors is out of the Marvel Studios kingdom. The news comes today in the wake of the Emmy-nominated actor being found guilty of reckless assault and harassment in his domestic violenc…
After having been found guilty in 2 out of 4 charges by a six-person jury, Jonatham Majors has been fired by Disney/Marvel Studios. Majors was found guilty of reckless assault in the third degree and guilty of harassment. He was found not guilty of intentional assault in the third degree and not guilty of aggravated harassment in second degree.
Good for them. Life is too short to enable abusers.
Time to recast and move on. Kang is a comic book space wizard. We can suspend our disbelief that much further. Maybe choose a much older actor and let the age difference be part of the explanation.
Kang is already a multidimensional being. Loki established that multidimensional beings can look like pretty much anything (even alligators). Recasting Kang is the easiest thing to do in cannon. "Turns out, those Kangs aren't the most common it's actually the new Kang"
I agree it has to be the easiest character ever to swap out an actor on.
It turns out, that all of those Kang's don't happen... Because Loki. Anyway here's a bunch more Kangs because time is infinite and this is fiction not science.
Have him make some cheeky remark like, "were you expecting somebody else?" And I legitimately do not care who they cast as long as he has charisma and can be convincing as a cold hearted monster that is eleventy-seven times smarter than just about anyone around him except for Dr Doom.
I've said it a few times, but I feel like they could have Dr. Doom come in to kill Kang pretty easily. It'd set up a new big bad, introduce the Fox Verse, and even set him up as the leader of any potential Battleworld in the future.
Kang even before the allegations hasn't been received all that well. A soft-reset with Doom might make people excited again. Imo all mystique of the character was already ruined in the Multiverse of Madness post-credits. A FoxVerse Vs MCU battle movie would touch on Endgame levels of hype.
He who Remains was fantastic, so fun to watch. Kang in Ant-Man was shit but so was all of that movie.
He was well received but he's a cunt so bye.
One thing I didn't like too well about the whole Kang thing is He Who Remains said that he discovered multiversal travel in the 32nd century and that resulted in the war. This made it seem like traveling the Multiverse was a near impossibility until he mastered it in the far future.
Then as Phase 4 continued, and turns out it's something kinda easy which became the plot for a few movies.
There is president for recasting in the MCU already, they swapped out Hulk and War Wachine without even a line of dialogue to address it.
She-Hulk acknowledges it. "I was a different person back then." (She-Hulk smirks into camera)
They swapped the Hulk 3 times, and that's not counting Lou Feringo!
? Is Harrison Ford not taking the role after all?
Isn’t the whole threat of Kang the fact that there’s an infinite number of him? Like, explaining the recasting Kang in the store seems like the easiest job ever.
It still gets messy between needing to promote the first few appearances and the inevitable "snark" among the influencers.
Unless they are willing to edit antman and whatever (it is Disney, they likely can contractually do that), they are still promoting majors every time they encourage people to watch the whole saga. Again, Disney, so I assume royalties aren't a concern, but it still makes the product look bad.
If the movies until now were better received, I could see them trying to salvage it. As it stands? This is an easy out and they can justify all the many missteps and chalk it up to something out of their control. Which may also be an opportunity to further split the overall arcs and reduce the stakes a bit while they build up new characters.
Just do what they did to War Machine. We can suspend our disbelief its fine.
Mostly joking, but I wouldn't exactly be mad if they brought Terrence Howard in as the new Kang to really hang a lampshade on it.
Terrance Howard would be like "yeah that's right, it's Terry Math time bitches!"
The nice thing about Kang being a character with infinite variants who can come from infinite different timelines is that he doesn't have to look one way or another particularly. If there's a blue guy with ominous vibes and time travel powers we can fill in the blanks.
Whoever decided all Kangs should be played by Johnny Boi here is obviously a genius using the true potential of the setting. I never liked that decision.
It's literally the exact same situation as Terrence Howard.
It's gonna be a pain for the studio, but I'm glad they made the right call quickly here, instead of trying to just ignore it away like DC and Ezra Miller.
I don't know how DC and WB got away with that. It hurts their reputation in long term.
They really had to. They quickly fired Gunn after media reported on old, edgy jokes. You have to fire someone after a guilty assault verdict if that's your threshold.
Start lifting, John Boyega.
Nah, Disney isn't in any rush to put him back in a movie.
I'd prefer it John gets a shot at a good franchise. Or just a big standalone blockbuster.
This is the way!
He Who Remains In Prison
Kang the Convicted
Kang the canceled
Imagine throwing away this opportunity because you couldn't keep your hands to yourself. Goodbye, fucking idiot.
Marvel should recast with a Lady Kang, full send into the "timeline variant" option.
At least they waited for the verdict to fire him this time cough Johnny Depp cough cough.
As much as people like to defend Depp, he's a piece of shit who deserves to lose his status. He has great pr that has made everyone around here ignore his mountains of past abusive behavior and being a creep.
Dude is 60, dating 20 year olds and bitching that they're immature. Him and his ex were mutually abusive psychos, she just happened to be worse, but Johnny Depp is a garbage person
It's easier for Disney to fire a problematic star who is past his prime and doesnt pull audiences anymore than to fire a problematic star who is considered up and coming, and supposed to frontline a big franchise
Depp’s a trash human being, too. Don’t let that verdict trick you into thinking he’s a victim. That whole affair was between two awful people.
Yeah...I definitely believe in the principle of being innocent until proven guilty, and that should apply in all facets of life. I know legally that only restrains the courts and government, but in my opinion, it should apply for everyone - no one should be fired or otherwise treated as though they're guilty before it has been proven.
Dude could’ve printed money riding the Disney/MCU wave. Instead he chose violence.
Bye.
They should just pull a switcheroo and show that Oroborous was actually Kang all along and that Majors was just a pawn or perhaps a rival he was disguising himself from.
This would be amazing
Deep fake iron lad? Deep fake iron lad.
Ravonna was hinted as being his variant, they could just replace him with her
Thankfully Loki 2 put them in a good position to just nip the kang storyline in the bud. At least for now. Maybe wait a good decade or two then potentially bring back the threat of Kang with a new actor (or more).
Personally hope they just recast and say fuck him tbh. Not many villains are on Kang's level, and we've already seen from covid what happens when Marvel has to respond to a massive shift in plans.
I'm hoping though, that loki 2 were signs of them having got a plan B though. At least if those scenes towards the end were reshoots. If they were in the original script, then it's just a lucky coincidence it looks that way.
Hopefully with a potential recast they can get away with the abysmal portrayal in ant man and have this new version not linked to that one at all.
That's true. The TVA is killing all the Kangs so maybe only the variants that don't look like Timely/HWR survive.
Or just say, no the TVA handled all the Kangs, here is Dr Doom.
I wonder if Mayors had something in his contract that only he can play Kang, as some people suspect from not already recasting him.
He can be removed based on the "morality clause" they put in these contracts. Basically "if you make us look bad, you're gone". All entertainers have them because they're public figures.
They can also just bring in ravonna as his variant
Those texts were classic abuser manipulation. He also sounds arrogant and unhinged calling himself a great man in them.
He threatened to kill himself to the woman he was abusing the manipulate her. I wonder if he has the balls to follow through now that it's over for him.
Maybe now Avengers 4 will just have Thanos return from the multiverse "Somehow Thanos returned......"
Probably just recast Kang. The multiverse thing allows for that pretty easily, and each Kang we've seen hasn't survived their show or movie. The question is if they can get someone as memorable as Majors.
They just need to recast him. No one will complain.
Such a shame. I thought he was doing such a great job as Kang. Fuck anyone that lays hands on their loved ones
Oh. That real.
Saw a meme about him beign fired. Thought it was a joke