Jonathan Majors‘ new action film has been dogged by controversy following an on-set accident and a crew strike.
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The new action flick – backed by Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire and Dallas Sonnier‘s Bonfire Legend – is said to be shooting under the working title ‘Knuckle’, and has faced continual scrutiny after Deadline obtained footage of Majors and his co-star, JC Kilcoyne, accidentally falling through a window while filming a scene.
In the clip, the two actors stumble backwards into a pane of glass before crashing through. As crew members run in to check whether they’re okay, two voices can be heard saying they were “good” after the accident. A voice that seems to be Majors asks if the production was rolling, saying: “Did we shoot it? Use it.”
Sources told Deadline that the accident occurred “after the window was replaced with an unsecured sheet of tempered glass to be purposefully shattered in a later stunt that did not involve any actors,” and said that the actors fell about six feet to the ground. The same sources alleged that Kilcoyne required stitches in his hands.
Kilcoyne’s reps later told Variety he was “doing well and was taken care of immediately by production.” Kilcoyne is wrapped filming on the movie, with his team further noting that he “did not feel unsafe on set and continued to have a positive experience working on the project”.
Jonathan Majors falls out of a window on set of his new Daily Wire action film.
When Deadline reached out for comment about unsafe conditions on the set, the producers said they “don’t negotiate with communists.”
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“The actors’ fall was shorter than the failed movie careers of the now-union reps,” Sonnier told Variety.
It comes after the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) called a strike against the production last month. It followed crew members walking off the job over a series of labour concerns, with Deadline’s reporting pointing to the window incident as the final straw for many of the crew on the production.
“The producers are actively looking for replacement crew,” IATSE shared in a social media post, which you can view below. “All IATSE members are advised not to cross the picket line.”
When approached by Deadline for comment, Sonnier said on Friday: “The entire industry is in freefall due to strikes, and now that their members are out of work, they’re trying to sabotage the few people who are still producing. We don’t negotiate with communists.”
That followed a previous statement after news of IATSE’s strike efforts first emerged, in which he said he and his fellow producers were “too busy being bad asses, blowing shit up, flying helicopters, and killing movie terrorists to concern ourselves with four assholes with signs on the sidewalk and their illegitimate ‘strike’”.
Despite the walkout, filming is said to continue in some capacity. Written and directed by Kyle Rankin, details about the film have thus far been kept under wraps, although an early logline shared by Variety suggests the plot centres around patriotism.
“When threats strike the heart of the homeland, American warriors rise with unbreakable grit and unrelenting firepower to defend what makes this country worth fighting for,” it reads.
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The film is one of the first projects Majors has taken on following his 2023 conviction for assault and harassment.
In March 2023, Majors was arrested on domestic violence charges in New York after he allegedly assaulted ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in the backseat of a car. The actor pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.
He faced four charges of assault, aggravated harassment and harassment, and was found guilty on two of the charges. He was found not guilty of one count of assault in the third degree and one count of aggravated harassment in the second degree. Majors avoided prison and was instead sentenced to probation.
After this, he was dropped from Marvel, and his film Magazine Dreams was dropped from the release schedule at the time.
Speaking to GQ last year, Michael B. Jordan said it was a “tough situation” to watch unfold, but said he was proud of his “resilience and his strength through it all”.
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