The Most Troubling Part Of Jonathan Majors' Role In That MAGA-Coded Movie

LOADINGERROR LOADINGI want more for Jonathan Majors than to play the lead of a movie designed to make its audience afraid of Muslims.The film, “Run Hide Fight: Infidels,” is a sequel to a franchise I had no clue existed.Its logline, first shared by Page Six Hollywood, is as stereotypical as the title suggests it to be.Advertisement “When radical Islamic terrorists hijack a liberal college’s pro-Palestine encampment to enforce barbaric Sharia law on students and execute infidels in a makeshift caliphate, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard tired of ‘Uncle Tom’ smears, and a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers and keep America from surrendering to the enemy on its own soil,” the logline reads.It sounds so stupid I could scream.

In fairness to Majors — whose star has fallen in the aftermath of being found guilty of one count of third-degree assault and one count of harassment involving his former girlfriend — perhaps that film descriptor isn’t all that different from other Islamophobic works produced by major Hollywood studios.He is not the only actor accepting roles in films funded by peculiar sources.Disgraced star Armie Hammer, who was hit with several allegations of sexual misconduct and assault five years ago, is set to star in “Citizen Vigilante,” which was basically banned in Germany because it “could incite violence against immigrants,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Marvel star Anthony Mackie recently starred in “Desert Warrior,” the widely panned $150 million film that was intended to revitalize the Saudi film industry.It has yet to gross $1 million.

Advertisement Still, there’s something so off-putting about Majors’ new project.If the trailer didn’t scream prejudice-promotion propaganda to you, Page Six Hollywood reporter Tatiana Siegel gleefully details the attitudes and intentions of the people behind it.Siegel, who says the movie “will make lib...

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