Marvel hasn’t budged yet on Majors’ future as supervillain Kang the Conquerer, but it’s easy to understand why: Disney has time and options - its next project with Majors hasn’t set a clear production schedule, and it won’t be a huge legacy problem if Season 2 of “Loki” simply comes out with an air of awkwardness around it. Jonathan Majors’ Alleged Victim Granted Restraining Order Ahead of Court Appearance (He’s still attached to Spike Lee’s Amazon project “Da Understudy,” probably because Spike is such a fighter that he won’t let go of his star until someone forces his hand.) So did a number of upcoming projects, including Protagonist Pictures’ adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel “The Man in My Basement,” a series of ads for the Texas Rangers baseball team, and an unannounced Otis Redding biopic from Fifth Season. Majors’ attorney claims evidence of his innocence, but his agency and publicity team dropped the actor this month.
When you build projects around movie stars, you create a liability. Now, as various Majors projects let him go, the fallout exposes a film-business fallacy. After Majors was arrested and charged with assault and harassment, the news cycle cast immediate uncertainty on his future.
(OK, maybe not Paltrow, who defeated a lawsuit, scored $1 in damages while wearing expensive clothes, and resurrected the grotesque spectacle of a live-streamed court trial from the dregs of the Depp/Heard horror show to reclaim it as camp.)Īnyone living in the spotlight faces the potential for a public reckoning and with that, collateral damage. It’s been a tough couple of weeks for fame, whether you’re Donald Trump, Jonathan Majors, or Gwyneth Paltrow.
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