Jonathan Majors on Jan. 20, 2023.Photo:Arturo Holmes/2023 Getty
Arturo Holmes/2023 Getty
Jonathan Majors’sacclaimedsports dramaMagazine Dreamsis seeking a new home weeks after the actor’s guilty verdict.
MultipleoutletsreportedTuesday that Searchlight Pictures has returned the film rights toMagazine Dreams, an independent drama that made its world premiere at the 2023Sundance Film Festivallast January, to its filmmakers. The movie stars Majors — who was foundguiltyon misdemeanor charges of assault and harassmentlast month in New York City — as an aspiring bodybuilder struggling with his physical and mental health.
Representatives for Searchlight Pictures did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment Wednesday.
Jonathan Majors on Dec. 15, 2023.John Nacion/Getty Images
John Nacion/Getty Images
A Sundance Film Festival synopsis forMagazine Dreamsdescribed Majors' aspiring bodybuilder character, named Killian Maddox, as “obsessively working out between court-mandated therapy appointments and part-time shifts at a grocery store where he harbors a crush on a friendly cashier.”
“Though Killian’s struggles to read social cues and maintain control of his volatile temper amplify his sense of disconnection amid a hostile world, nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of bodybuilding superstardom, not even the doctors who warn that he’s causing permanent damage to his body with his quest,” the synopsis reads.
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Searchlight and its parent company Walt Disney Studios originally scheduledMagazine Dreamsfor release in December during the height of awards season. In October,multiple outletsreported the film wastaken off a Disney release calendaras his criminal case in N.Y.C. approached a trial.
In December, Majors was found guilty of misdemeanor assault in the third degree, recklessly causing physical injury and harassment in the second degree afteran alleged domestic disputewith his ex-girlfriendGrace Jabbariin New York in March 2023. He was found not guilty of misdemeanor assault in the third degree with intent to cause physical injury and misdemeanor aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Taylour Paige, Elijah Bynum, Jonathan Majors and Haley Bennett on Jan. 20, 2023.Arturo Holmes/2023 Getty
Marvel Studios confirmed to PEOPLE that it parted ways with Majors, who portrayed the villain Kang the Conqueror in the most recentAnt-Manmovie and the Disney+ seriesLoki, following his guilty verdict.
Additionally,CNNreported last Friday that Majors willno longer playDennis Rodmanin an in-the-works biopic centered around the former NBA star’s life. The actor’s legal representatives did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment at that time.Majors will return to court for sentencing on Feb. 6. Hecould face up to a year in jail.
source: people.com
