‘Zero Conversations’ About Marvel Recasting Kang Reported As Jonathan Majors’ Troubles Mount

Jonathan Majors’ once-promising career appears to be teetering on a knife’s edge at the moment after he was arrested on allegations of domestic assault after a recent incident with a woman late last month.

While Majors has said he looks “forward to clearing his name,” many people near him do not seem to be waiting for that to happen. Deadline is reporting that Majors has now been dropped by his talent manager, Entertainment 360, and his PR firm, The Lede Company. It was “mutually agreed” that he wouldn’t be attending the Met Gala this year, and has reportedly been dropped from the upcoming films The Man in My Basement and Otis and Zelma. He even was cut from an ad campaign for the MLB’s Texas Rangers.

That leaves one, big project. The singular project that likely will determine his entire remaining career, if he has one, the role of Kang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Majors has already played the role in both Loki, and then very prominently in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. His part in Loki season 2 is already filmed, and he’s the entire lynchpin of most of Phase 5 leading up to Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.

But according to Deadline in the same report about him losing his management agency and PR firm, they say here have been “zero conversations in the Marvel camp to drop Majors from the MCU.” At least at present, it does not appear to be on the table. It’s a bit reminiscent of how Ezra Miller continued to be supported by WB and DC to continue playing The Flash after what can only be described as a literal crime spree. But Miller reportedly apologized and sought help. Majors, on the other hand, maintains his innocence after his arrest, and his lawyer has said that they believe the charges will be dropped. That has not yet happened.

After breaking onto the scene in HBO’s Lovecraft Country, Majors scored big wins this year with his role in Creed III, and most people agreed he was the best part of the underwhelming Quantumania, and were looking forward to more of his Kang. Well, right now, we may actually get more of that Kang, unless Marvel changes their mind and follows the Texas Rangers to cut Majors from the MCU. But as of now, that does not appear to be happening. We’ll see how the situation evolves from here.

Update (4/20): Now more women are coming forward about Majors’ alleged behavior:

A new report from Variety says that more women he allegedly abused are coming forward to cooperate with the DA’s office, compounding the problems for the actor and perhaps forcing Disney to finally have those “conversations” about replacing him as Kang.

The DA did not comment on this new report, but Majors’ attorney Priya Chaudry did:

“Jonathan Majors is innocent and has not abused anyone. We have provided irrefutable evidence to the District Attorney that the charges are false. We are confident that he will be fully exonerated.”

There is of course a difference between Majors eventually being found guilty or innocent in a court of law, or simply attracting enough allegations that Disney is forced to drop him and reshape their plans for the MCU. Kang is a lot more deeply ingrained in multiple projects in this phase of the MCU than say, Thanos or Ultron ever were, and it seems more than likely that Kang would have to be recast, rather than Kang being written out of the storyline altogether.

As for Majors and his alleged victims, there are far more serious issues at play here, and there will be many more developments to come, it seems, as the case continues to unfold and new evidence or witnesses emerge. Stay tuned for more.

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