Jonathan Majors has now been fired from playing Dennis Rodman
Majors has been fired from the role of Rodman in 48 Hours In Vegas, about an infamous "vacation" during Rodman's NBA career
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Jonathan Majors’ film and TV commitments continue to get pared down to weepy network news interviews, it seems, as The Wrap reports that the former Marvel star has now been fired from 48 Hours In Vegas, a film in which he was slated to star as NBA legend Dennis Rodman. The film has also reportedly been dropped from Lionsgate’s production slate outright, on the understanding that if it gets shopped around to another studio, it won’t be with Majors in the starring role anymore.
Produced by Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Aditya Sood, the film centers on a memorable moment from the Chicago Bulls’ drive toward the 1998 NBA championship, when Rodman lobbied coach Phil Jackson for the titular 48 hours in Vegas in order to blow off steam—and then failed to return on time, forcing Jackson to send Michael Jordan to drag him back to work. (All of which is recounted, in Jordan’s very funny, straight-talking style, in 2020's The Last Dance.) The film reportedly offered up a fictionalized version of the extended vacation in question, with Rodman teamed up with a “skittish assistant GM” presumably meant to keep him reined in while he partied.
All of which appears to have been absolutely wrecked by Majors’ conviction, late last year, on charges of assault and harassment against ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. To some extent, today’s news parallels the situation with Disney-acquired festival success Magazine Dreams, the other major non-Marvel project to be shelved in the wake of the convictions; nobody wants to watch Jonathan Majors cut loose or lose control at the moment, is the sentiment we’re picking up.
It’s not clear when, if ever, 48 Hours In Vegas might end up with another studio; Rodman himself serves as an executive producer on the film.
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Good lord that sounded awful
Of course it’s good that celebrities are being charged and convicted for DV and yet who hasn’t heard of far worse cases among people we all may personally know? And nothing happens. It’s almost as though their public apprehensions and punishments lull us into believing that harm against against normal vicitms is actually recognized, affirmed and dealt with.
As usual, you have one of the dumbest possible takes imaginable. who hasn’t heard of far worse cases among people we all may personally know?Most of us don’t know violent sociopaths.
To quotes the Simposons “The finger thing means the money”With our society the way it is(aka kinda shit) the only way you are going to get your DV case to trial is with a good lawyer and a good lawyer isn’t going to take the case unless you can pay them a lot or they can see opportunity for a civil case where they can get a big chunk of the winnings.
That is extremely depressing. I would hope that a third degree charge would get some notice in the courts.
And you made me look. It’s “the finger means the taxes.”
Has it become old yet to say they should get Scarlett Johanssen? Ah, screw it, I’m saying it anyway.
Dennis Rodman isn’t a tree, silly!
I’d much rather watch a movie about the time Michael Jordan decided to grow a Hitler mustache.
wow…to be too unwholesome to play Dennis freaking Rodman…that’s an accomplishment
Kim Jong Un has standards, dammit.
I think its also with how apparently horrible he was to work with (pretentious on a level even Hollywood can’t stand) people are happy for an excuse to drop him, because before he was a big enough name that the studio execs didn’t care what the cast and crew had to put up with.
Is this for real? Oh man! What do you think, AV club?
In the interest of representation, maybe we should only allow disgraced actors to play people with similar or worse histories. Majors can play Rodman or Bill Cosby, and maybe we can let Kevin Spacey star in the Harvey Weinstein story.
All this dumbass needed to do was just accept whatever plea deal was offered and just lay low for a year or so. Insisting on a whole ass trial and inevitable guilty conviction was really stupid decision.
The Depp effect. I anticipated this.
Depp effect? Not seeing whatever parallel you’re inferring. Major’s simply should have just come clean and laid low, what’s wrong with saying that?
Nothing wrong. Have a great day.
This summer in ‘T Model’, Mel Gibson IS Henry Ford!
personally I’d like to see Majors play Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey take on Cosby. Bid for ultimate-cancellation, would love to see Fox News heads try to defend it somehow.
Rodman is 6’9″. Majors is 6′ at best.Wtf?
Different people differ in height. Hope this helps.
Casting someone who isn’t even close to matching the physical characteristics of the part they’re playing is super distracting. Hope this helps
You offer nothing to the human race and shouldn’t breed.I hope this helps.
Aww, bless your cowardly little heart.
Zero to cunty in two comments.
if Ukraine would honor the referendum in Crimea and let the Dunbas provinces hold their referendums, this war wouldn’t be happening.
Girl you’re the dumbass who thinks height fucking matters in Hollywood so settle down
Are you sure about that. According to all the dating apps I’ve been on, every man is 6 feet tall
On websites, I list myself as 6’5″, 240lbs of 2% bodyfat streetfighting legend.
But I only list those watered-down numbers so as not to make the ladies think that I’m not humble.
They’d have just given him fake feet with big lifts. Totally natural looking!
you mean like this?
The DeSantis special
He has a completely different body type also.
Sean Aston is 5′ 3″. Hobbits are 2-4’ at best.Wtf?
I guess it would have been a …. stretch 😉
Hey, it’s hard to cast for basketball players- let alone one with a famous actor to get butts in seats- which is why we just make it about Michael Jordan’s shoes don’t see as many true story Hollywood movies on basketball as we do with other sports.
So now we get even more crocodile tears from Majors?
A wild, hard-partying superstar who has a skittish front office person trying to corral him a bit and get him someplace on time? So… it was just Get Him to the Greek, but with Dennis Rodman? Got it.
That was just horrible casting regardless. He doesn’t look anything like Rodman.
Rami Malek can’t be in everything.
If I could suspend my disbelief for the rather small Jeremy Allen White playing the rather gigantic Kerry Von Erich in The Iron Claw, I could have suspended my disbelief for this.
Be a MAN! Be a RODMAN!!!
This actually happened after they realised he looks nothing like Dennis Rodman.
Just cast Morgan Freeman as Rodman. No, the age doesn’t match up, but Freeman has spent his whole career playing wise, gentle figures. Let him cut loose for a bit.
We have plenty of CGI. Might as well just computer Rodman’s face onto some similarly built guy and call it a day.
Or, considering we just went through two entertainment industry strikes partly fighting against devaluing the work of creatives via technology, we could not do that.
Or take a joke?
They should make a biopic of that time Rodman might have (ALLEGEDY!) run over and ripped a woman’s face off with his boat. There was even an Unsolved Mysteries episode about it!
So 48 Hours in Vegas isn’t the Eddie Murphy sequel?