Jonathan Majors is no longer expected to be part of a movie focusing on former NBA star Dennis Rodman’s infamous trip to Las Vegas in the middle of the 1998 NBA Finals. The film, tentatively titled “48 Hours In Vegas” cast Majors to portray Rodman early in 2023, but after the actor was convicted of assault and harassment of former girlfriend Grace Jabbari, he was dropped from this and several other projects.
As CNN reports, a source close to the film says that though Majors has not been officially dropped from the project, he will not be part of the project. Other sources indicated to CNN that the project has undergone multiple changes behind the scenes, including shopping the film around to multiple producers. In addition to this, the sources claim that the director who was originally attached to the project has plans that exceeded the film’s budget, so Lionsgate let the producers shop the film around.
According to one of the sources, “I cannot imagine a world where this moves forward with Jonathan.” Even though William Morris Endeavors still counts Majors as a client, Majors and his management and publicist split in April 2023 as the accusations began to swirl around Majors. Marvel, who had plans for Majors to lead “Phase 5” of their connected Marvel Cinematic Universe as Kang The Conqueror, dropped Majors immediately following the verdict.
Just before his arrest in March 2023, Majors was cast in a Spike Lee film produced by Amazon Studios, “Da Understudy,” but according to the source, the details of that project were in such a preliminary state that no deals had been finalized. They also said that it is possible that particular film may never happen, the talks were in such a state that Majors’ trial didn’t factor into it, according to the source. A representative for Spike Lee and a spokesperson for Amazon Studios both declined to provide comments to CNN.
A few months before his arrest, a film Majors was in, “Magazine Dreams” was receiving major buzz on the film festival circuit. Central to this was critical buzz from the Sundance Film Festival around Majors performance, which likely would have positioned Majors as an Oscar contender. Disney’s Searchlight was going to initially release the film in December 2023, but it was shelved in October before Majors’ trial began. Majors, who maintained his innocence in a Good Morning America interview earlier in January, was acquitted on a second assault charge and one count of aggravated harassment.
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