Jonathan Majors Fired By Marvel, Plus: Netflix Spin-Offs, Orphan 3, and More
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On the December 19, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to talk about the latest film and TV news.
Opening Banter:
In The News:
- Marvel and Creed Star Jonathan Majors Found Guilty of Harassment and Assault
- What does The Kang Dynasty look like without Majors involved? (Avengers 5)
- Doctor Doom rumors - Fantastic Four movie May 2, 2025 (Kang Dynasty, May 1, 2026)
- Recasting options
- Loki could become the Big Bad
- Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12 Will Bring The Show To An End
- Netflix Is Developing TV Spin-Offs Of Wednesday, Extraction, and Peaky Blinders
- Orphan 3 In The Works, Director Says Horror Franchise's Rulebook Has 'Opened Up'
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily today's Tuesday |
| 0:03.3 | December 19th 2023 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking |
| 0:07.1 | about the latest film and TV news my name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor |
| 0:10.6 | at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor |
| 0:13.9 | B. J. Colangelo. Hi, hi, hi. |
| 0:16.5 | All right, B.J, big news from yesterday that we have to talk about. Let's spend the first |
| 0:20.3 | half of today's episode talking about the fallout from the Marvel Cinematic |
| 0:24.6 | Universe and the guilty trial of Jonathan Major. |
| 0:29.3 | So yesterday a jury in New York found actor Jonathan Major majors guilty of reckless assault in the third |
| 0:35.0 | degree and guilty of harassment and very very quickly after that, what would you call that, |
| 0:42.1 | the verdict came down Disney and Marvel announced that they were |
| 0:46.3 | parting ways with them and he is no longer part of their plans for the MCU. |
| 0:50.4 | So you know this has kind of been like the thing that's been hanging over Marvel for a while now. |
| 0:56.0 | I think this happened back in like March originally and this trial was like a couple week trial and there's just been a lot of back and forth and a lot of |
| 1:04.3 | question marks about what Marvel Studios is going to be doing here. I guess like before we get into the, you know, what this |
| 1:11.8 | means for Marvel and all that kind of stuff I just want to say like there |
| 1:14.8 | are human lives you know and involved in this thing it's very easy for people on podcast like us to just be like to just |
| 1:20.4 | immediately jump to hey who's to be cast as Kang. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:26.0 | And like, you know, I, I admittedly, we are going to have that conversation because I feel like it's important |
| 1:31.2 | for Marvel and the larger state of Hollywood, but also, you know, |
| 1:35.2 | that doesn't mean we don't have to, it doesn't mean we have to like forget that there are real |
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