Jonathan Majors Makes Movie Comeback In Daily Wire Action Pic Filming This Week In South Carolina
EXCLUSIVE: Creed III and Ant-Man star Jonathan Majors is shooting his first movie in four years as cameras roll this week in South Carolina on an untitled action film from The Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend.
Kyle Rankin (Run Hide Fight) is directing from his own screenplay. The title, plot and other cast are being kept under wraps for now, but the story is said to be in the vein of ’80s and ’90s action movies Red Dawn and Toy Soldiers, which were both about groups of teenage boys who had to band together to defeat invading enemies.
Ben Shapiro (The Ben Shapiro Show) and Dallas Sonnier (Bone Tomahawk) are producing for The Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend, respectively. Travis Mills (Frontier Crucible), Lillian Campbell (The Pendragon Cycle), and Sydney Aucreman (Terror On The Prairie) are also producing.
Majors’ career was motoring following roles in movies such as The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Creed III, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Magazine Dreams, as well as series such as HBO horror Lovecraft Country, but he was dropped from numerous projects when found guilty in 2023 of assaulting his former girlfriend. The actor has been rebuilding since then and is also attached to star in the supernatural revenge thriller Merciless from Martin Villeneuve, which we first announced in summer 2024.
The Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend have not shied away from opportunities to help resuscitate the careers of ‘cancelled’ actors. The conservative media brands, which are coming off their biggest project to date in TV series The Pendragon Cycle, also gave comeback movie roles to Armie Hammer and Gina Carano after her exit from The Mandalorian.
Caleb Robinson and Mike Richards are executive-producing the new movie for The Daily Wire, alongside Majors for Tall Street Productions, and Jason Ramos (Landman).
Kristopher Kimlin (Young Washington) will be cinematographer, and David Guglielmo (The Standoff At Sparrow Creek) will handle casting. Vincent Reynaud (Kandahar) is on board as the production designer, and Emma Fleming (The Last Stop In Yuma County) will be the costume designer.
The movie reunites The Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend with Rankin who wrote and directed their film Run Hide Fight, which starred Isabel May and Thomas Jane, and premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020.
Majors is represented by WME and Fox Rothschild. Rankin is repped by UTA, Greenlit Management and attorney Stephen Clark.
