Jonathan Majors has been dropped by Marvel and his character, Kang the Conqueror, will both be recast or written out of the franchise, in line with The Hollywood Reporter. The choice follows Majors’ conviction of reckless assault within the third diploma and harassment on Monday.
Majors portrayed Kang within the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, a personality established as the first antagonist for the present Multiverse Saga, very like Thanos was the keystone villain of the earlier Infinity Saga. Majors debuted as a “variant” of Kang known as He Who Stays in Season 1 of the Disney+ collection Loki, returning on this 12 months’s Season 2 as one other variant named Victor Well timed. He additionally starred on this 12 months’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania because the Kang the Conqueror variant, in addition to the handfuls of different variants in The Council of Kangs mid-credits scene.
On the 2022 San Diego Comedian-Con, Marvel introduced the following two Avengers movies could be known as Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars, with plans to shoot the Kang-centric productions back-to-back. Nonetheless, within the aftermath of Majors’ arrest and the Hollywood labor strikes, Marvel pushed again each movies by a 12 months.
The Hollywood Reporter says Marvel intends to both recast Majors’ position or redevelop the movie’s story to deal with a unique villain. Even earlier than Majors’ conviction, Marvel tapped Loki creator Michael Waldron to remodel the script for The Kang Dynasty.
In current months, Majors has additionally been dropped by each his expertise supervisor and publicist, and misplaced a number of different movie roles, together with an adaptation of the 2004 Walter Mosley novel The Man in My Basement and an Otis Redding biopic. Disney additionally eliminated his movie, Journal Desires, from its launch schedule.
Majors was convicted by a New York jury of reckless assault within the third diploma and harassment. He was discovered not responsible of intentional assault within the third diploma and never responsible of aggravated harassment in second diploma. The fees stemmed from an incident involving his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, in March 2023. Majors will likely be sentenced on February sixth, 2024. He faces as much as a 12 months in jail.