A Hollywood comeback built around one of conservative media’s most aggressive culture-war fantasies is putting Jonathan Majors back under scrutiny. The actor stars in Run Hide Fight: Infidels, an upcoming Daily Wire action film that arrives as Majors continues trying to rebuild a career derailed by his 2023 assault conviction.
The newly released trailer via Deadline makes little attempt to soften the movie’s politics. Infidels imagines radical Islamic terrorists taking control of a pro-Palestinian encampment at a liberal college, where they attempt to impose Sharia law and execute those who refuse to submit. Majors plays a Delta Force veteran who joins students and a Black security guard in fighting back. The film is produced by Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro and Dallas Sonnier.
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That premise has made Majors’ choice of comeback vehicle part of the conversation. A recent Los Angeles Times guest column from Muslim Public Affairs Council executive Sue Obeidi and Define American founder Jose Antonio Vargas described the film as “xenophobic and Islamophobic.” They argued that it recycles fears about Muslims imposing Sharia law in America for a modern culture-war audience. Daily Wire’s own promotional campaign has also leaned directly into those anxieties. Its teaser reportedly incorporated 9/11 footage and an ISIS flag flying over a college before asking viewers whether the threat depicted in the film is “already here.”
Moreover, the criticism carries additional weight because Majors is not simply taking another acting job after a quiet stretch away from the screen. His standing in Hollywood changed dramatically after a Manhattan jury convicted him in December 2023 of misdemeanor assault and harassment against his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. Marvel Studios dropped him immediately, ending plans that had positioned his Kang the Conqueror as a major figure across its cinematic universe. Meanwhile, Majors avoided jail and was later sentenced to a 52-week batterer’s intervention program. He was also ordered to continue mental health counseling. He has maintained that he did not intentionally harm Jabbari.
For an actor once moving between Creed III and potential Marvel blockbusters, working with Daily Wire represents a conspicuous turn away from the Hollywood institutions that stopped hiring him after his conviction. Whether that partnership creates another lane for Majors remains to be seen. What is already clear is that Run Hide Fight: Infidels will not allow his return to happen quietly.
