Jonathan Majors will no longer be playing the role of Dennis Rodman in the upcoming film 48 Hours in Vegas following his guilty verdict of assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend.
According to a report from Deadline, another actor will replace Majors, and Lionsgate has officially pulled out from working on the film, leaving it in the hands of its producers, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Aditya Sood. There’s no word if the film is currently being shopped around.
The film will be based on a screenplay written by Jordan VanDina that covers the five-time NBA champion’s impromptu trip to Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz.
Majors’ guilty verdict on misdemeanor charges led to him being dropped from several companies, including Marvel Studios, where he played Kang the Conqueror. He already played the role in the Disney+ series Loki and in the movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The character was slated to appear as the next major villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including 2026’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
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