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11-01-2023, 05:50 PM
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1719738567600324885
Variety delves into the crisis Marvel has been having with Majors, who is currently appearing on Loki Season 2. According to Variety's Tatiana Siegel, CAA parted ways with Majors over his "brutal conduct" toward staff before his domestic violence arrest. Majors landed at WME. "A studio source notes that regardless of the actor’s legal issues, Marvel already had considered moving away from a Majors-led phase because of the box office performance of Quantumania, which will struggle to make a profit," reports Siegel, adding: "Recasting Majors is also an option, as (Marvel boss Kevin) Feige did when he replaced Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2 with Don Cheadle. In fact, Marvel isn’t afraid to change direction, even after making splashy announcements. Armor Wars was first unveiled as a series and is now being developed as a feature, while the studio’s push to adapt the comic book Inhumans into a feature film generated headlines but is now dormant. (The now-defunct Marvel Television mounted an Inhumans TV series in 2017 that ran for one season on ABC.)” ALSO: Marvel’s Jonathan Majors problem is expected to get even bigger with Loki’s Season 2 finale (https://tvline.com/news/loki-season-2-finale-jonathan-majors-kang-controversy-1235068979/).
Variety delves into the crisis Marvel has been having with Majors, who is currently appearing on Loki Season 2. According to Variety's Tatiana Siegel, CAA parted ways with Majors over his "brutal conduct" toward staff before his domestic violence arrest. Majors landed at WME. "A studio source notes that regardless of the actor’s legal issues, Marvel already had considered moving away from a Majors-led phase because of the box office performance of Quantumania, which will struggle to make a profit," reports Siegel, adding: "Recasting Majors is also an option, as (Marvel boss Kevin) Feige did when he replaced Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2 with Don Cheadle. In fact, Marvel isn’t afraid to change direction, even after making splashy announcements. Armor Wars was first unveiled as a series and is now being developed as a feature, while the studio’s push to adapt the comic book Inhumans into a feature film generated headlines but is now dormant. (The now-defunct Marvel Television mounted an Inhumans TV series in 2017 that ran for one season on ABC.)” ALSO: Marvel’s Jonathan Majors problem is expected to get even bigger with Loki’s Season 2 finale (https://tvline.com/news/loki-season-2-finale-jonathan-majors-kang-controversy-1235068979/).