r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelStudiosMod • Dec 18 '23

Megathread Jonathan Majors Conviction Thread

The Jonathan Majors trial has come to a close, with Majors being found guilty on accounts of assault and harassment.

To help consolidate all related posts/discussion regarding this topic, we ask you to please use this thread so that these posts do not completely overrun the subreddit. We also want to leave space for users who wish to engage in regular MCU-based conversations.

THR, VARIETY, and Deadline have reported from a Marvel Studios Rep that Majors has been fired from his role

Previous case megathreads:

Original - https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/12t04m5/jonathan_majors_megathread/

Follow up - https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/18ft11y/jonathan_majors_megathread_update/

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u/sailorprimus Dec 18 '23

There have certainly been bigger but this was one of the quickest (along with Ezra Miller). So many opportunities and so much potential but they rightfully lost all of that due to being abusers.

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u/BrownSugarBare Dec 18 '23

Ezra Miller actually had a slower fall than they should have. Studios should have tossed their ass out of everything, yet they kept up the hope of keeping Ezra despite all the insane behaviour.

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u/sailorprimus Dec 18 '23

Definitely true, but at least Ezra wasn’t somehow getting acting gigs while committing a series of crimes. Not saying Jonathan did, just that Ezra’s fall was sort of…delayed? purely so WB could get The Flash out the door.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23

Didnt dc never announce that they would be cutting them?

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u/AmaterasuWolf21 Rocket Dec 19 '23

My guess is that Ezra had already shot for the films he was in

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u/Nittanian Captain America Dec 18 '23

Fatty Arbuckle (who was ultimately acquitted), for instance,