Jonathan Majors to Stand Trial For Domestic Violence

[Mister Mets]

There were some major developments in the domestic violence allegations against Jonathan Majors. A judge rejected his request to dismiss the case, and the trial will start on November 29.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/j...al-1235767034/

Jonathan Majors will face a trial on domestic abuse charges after a New York judge denied the motion to dismiss the case. The trial date is set to begin on Nov. 29.

Majors appeared on Wednesday morning in a lower Manhattan courtroom via Zoom because he’s out of state.

During the hearing, his defense attorneys filed a motion to request that “contested evidence” remain under seal and barred from public view due to the”high profile” nature of the case and allegations against Majors. Defense attorney Seth Zuckerman told Judge Michael Gaffey that he believes “the disclosure of sensitive information will limit Mr. Majors’ right to a fair trial.” The judge did not yet rule on the motion and told reporters in the room they could submit papers to oppose it by Nov. 6.

Following Wednesday’s decision, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office issued a statement saying, “We look forward to presenting our case at trial.”

The Marvel actor was arrested in Manhattan on March 25 and charged with assault and aggravated harassment after an alleged domestic dispute with his girlfriend at the time, Grace Jabbari. Majors has pleaded not guilty to the four charges leveled against him. If convicted of misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault, he faces up to one year in jail.

Yesterday it was reported that Manhattan prosecutors are looking to introduce a police report about an altercation in London.

https://deadline.com/2023/10/jonatha...rt-1235581808/

A day before a court hearing that could determine whether the domestic violence case against Jonathan Majors goes ahead and to trial, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office Tuesday made some damning accusations against the defense and also said the UK police are now a part of their prosecution.

Details of the London Metropolitan Police report from over a year ago are unknown. However, “medical Records from the United Kingdom, photographs taken by medical providers, and correspondence with [a] medical provider” related to a September 2022 incident are among the new evidence prosecutors acquired, according to a recent filing in the New York criminal case.

Prosecutors also pushed back against his defense team's messaging.

Rejecting a defense motion to dismiss the matter, Bragg and Assistant D.A. Keli Galaway also now accuse Majors’ defense team Priya Chaudhry, Seth Zuckerman and David Winkler of “fictional” and “meritless” allegations against their office in an attempt to take the case off track. They also accuse the defense of spreading misinformation about non-existent video footage of the March incident, and claiming charges were coming against Jabbari for supposedly attacking their client. The D.A.’s office adds that Majors’ defense lawyers have been distributing a “wanted flyer” against Jabbari in an effort to shift focus.

“While defendant claims the People did not investigate Ms. Jabbari, a thorough investigation was conducted into the facts of this case and, in doing so, the People have chosen to prosecute Jonathan Majors,” the DA’s office said in its filing, which was made October 13. “Simply because defense counsel does not agree with the People’s use of prosecutorial discretion, it does not follow that an investigation was not conducted.”

Despite the activation of an investigatory card by police, the DA’s office says it has strongly recommended to NYPD detectives not to arrest Jabbari, a British citizen, based on the cross complaint from Majors in June. It added that if the cops did arrest Jabbari, it would go nowhere fast.

“On September 8, 2023, and September 12, 2023, the prosecution informed the NYPD that the People would decline to prosecute any charges brought by the NYPD against Ms. Jabbari related to the belated allegations made by defendant regarding the incident on March 25, 2023.”

Jabbari is intended as a witness for the prosecution in the much-delayed trial, and the DA said today its office is paying for her to fly over from UK. It also is paying for her lodging while in the U.S. for the trial – whenever it actually starts.

And the details are disgusting.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movi...ce-1234860571/

In the recent motion, prosecutors said the fight started when the woman observed Majors receive a text message to the effect of, “Wish I was kissing you right now.” When the woman attempted to grab the phone, Majors allegedly twisted her arm and struck her, according to her police complaint. Majors then exited the car and when the woman tried to follow him, he allegedly grabbed her, picked her up, and threw her back inside the car. The woman “sustained substantial pain, including a fractured finger, bruising about her body, a laceration behind her right ear, and a bump on her head,” according to the motion.

Prosecutors also claim in court papers that while Majors’ legal team has told the press that “video of the incident existed,” there is no video of the alleged attack. Similarly, prosecutors have claimed that Majors’ lawyers provided them a witness statement from the driver of the taxi cab in which the driver supposedly claimed he had seen the woman attack Majors. However, prosecutors claim when they showed the statement to the driver, he stated that he “had never written it, approved it, did not previously know it existed, and that the above statements were all false,” according to the motion.

In Rolling Stone‘s investigation from June, Majors’ legal team provided six character witness statements from women who Majors had dated or was close with. When Rolling Stone reached all six people, three say they never gave Majors’ team permission to release such statements. Another woman declined to share the statement credited to her by Majors’ team, saying it was prewritten, not truthful, and that she had never approved of its release. (One did not respond to a request for comment.) Only one woman consented to making her statement public.

He may be one actor who hopes the SAG strike goes on for a long time.

[Kirby101]

Wow! He who remains in jail.

[choptop]

Ya marvel probably needs to drop him too much baggage.

[Maestro 216]

Ya marvel probably needs to drop him too much baggage.

Loki is still airing.

[choptop]

Loki is still airing.

Just get it over with

[wleakr]

Ya marvel probably needs to drop him too much baggage.

DC kept the dude that starred in the Flash movie and he did way more and was way more of a distraction than Majors has been for Marvel.

[Mister Mets]

Loki is still airing.

That would be hard to change at this point, even if there weren't the strike.

Ya marvel probably needs to drop him too much baggage.

I'm thinking there's going to be some kind of reveal that the High Evolutionary is a Kang variant, allowing Marvel to say that some Kangs look like Chukwudi Iwuji,

[choptop]

DC kept the dude that starred in the Flash movie and he did way more and was way more of a distraction than Majors has been for Marvel.

And we all know how that turned out.....

[Mister Mets]

DC kept the dude that starred in the Flash movie and he did way more and was way more of a distraction than Majors has been for Marvel.

That did not work out well for DC. And Marvel's very aware of this.

Ezra Miller wasn't as toxic in mid-2021 during the filming of the Flash. Most of the weird stuff (carrying firearms, making statements about the KKK that the Southern Poverty Law Center thought did not reflect reality, the Hawaii incident, the allegations of kidnapping a minor) happened between the wrap date in October 2021 and the film's release.

If Miller's crime spree had occurred in 2020, I think someone else would have been Barry Allen.

Right now, Marvel is deciding whether Jonathan Majors will appear in future movies and TV shows. He has the additional problem that he was the big villain in Antman: Quantumania, and rather than whetting the public's appetite for Kang VS the Avengers, it was a flop with the worst reviews of any MCU film.

I'm pretty sure with the writers strike over, teams at Marvel are trying to figure out how to recast Kang. One idea could be to reveal that there are multiple Kang faces. Some look like Jonathan Majors, and we're not going to see them any more. Some may look like Chukwudi Iwuji. Some may look like Djimon Hounsou.

[80sbaby]

This is a dumb idea. They aren't going to just swap him out for black actors they've used in other things
This sounds too much like you think black people are interchangeable/look alike. At least suggest a new actor smh

[Mister Mets]

This is a dumb idea. They aren't going to just swap him out for black actors they've used in other things
This sounds too much like you think black people are interchangeable/look alike. At least suggest a new actor smh

To respond to the bolded portion, hell no.

It seems to me that the politics of recasting gets awkward when a black actor is replaced by someone else. A few years ago, the Broadway show “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” pretty much collapsed after a controversy when the actor Okieriete Onaodowan was replaced by Mandy Patinkin. The character is white (it's an adaptation of a portion of War & Peace, and the role was originated by Josh Grobin) and Mandy Patinkin was the bigger star. But there was still a #makeroomforoak Twitter campaign that led to Patinkin dropping out. And the play was gone at that point.

https://variety.com/2017/legit/news/...sy-1202510044/

I could see Disney considering that race-switching Kang would come with a major backlash that is too much of a headache.

Picking actors from earlier films could sell the idea of different-looking Kang variants as part of an earlier plan, and give Marvel an opportunity to work with actors who they seem to get along with.

Getting someone new means that they're not going to play other roles in the MCU, and sticks the actor with a character who is high-profile, but whose story seems half-told at this point. I'm sure there are decent actors who would take Marvel up on that offer, but you lose the ability to connect Kang to earlier stories.

[Scott Taylor]

Well thats two strikes for Kang. One, Quantumania was underwhelming and was not a great introduction to Kang. Two, this. Honestly at this point I'd just dump Kang entirely and go with something else like the Beyonder or Galactus for the next big bad.

Picture a big purple guy and his surfing sidekick appearing in New York, while the Avengers are scattered and leaderless. Amidst the brave and fierce struggle that ensues, a group of three mysterious blue-suited heroes with unique powers teleport in and join the fight. The sidekick sees the sacrificial bravery of all of earth's heroes in the battle and turns against his former master. And just when all seems lost, a fourth blue-suited hero who can turn his entire body into flame shows up with a mysterious device from the purple guy's homeworld in hand to turn the tide.

Come on Marvel, my biological clock is ticking like this and at this rate we are never getting the FF!

[80sbaby]

To respond to the bolded portion, hell no.

It seems to me that the politics of recasting gets awkward when a black actor is replaced by someone else. A few years ago, the Broadway show “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” pretty much collapsed after a controversy when the actor Okieriete Onaodowan was replaced by Mandy Patinkin. The character is white (it's an adaptation of a portion of War & Peace, and the role was originated by Josh Grobin) and Mandy Patinkin was the bigger star. But there was still a #makeroomforoak Twitter campaign that led to Patinkin dropping out. And the play was gone at that point.

https://variety.com/2017/legit/news/...sy-1202510044/

I could see Disney considering that race-switching Kang would come with a major backlash that is too much of a headache.

Picking actors from earlier films could sell the idea of different-looking Kang variants as part of an earlier plan, and give Marvel an opportunity to work with actors who they seem to get along with.

Getting someone new means that they're not going to play other roles in the MCU, and sticks the actor with a character who is high-profile, but whose story seems half-told at this point. I'm sure there are decent actors who would take Marvel up on that offer, but you lose the ability to connect Kang to earlier stories.

Who said anything about race switches? Your example doesn't work because I didn't say anything about hiring another white actor. There's absolutely no reason to not get another black actor here. Kang still wouldn't be connected to anything else because just because the same person is playing him, he's still separate from Korath and the HE. The only thing they'd have in common is race.

[wleakr]

And we all know how that turned out.....

IMHO, Miller was a poor casting choice for the role, even before the legal issues. The Flash movie didn't do well because it simply wasn't a good movie.

Majors has done a decent job as Kang thus far.

Time will tell how it all plays out.

[Gaastra]

Ezra Miller wasn't as toxic in mid-2021

He chocked slams a girl live on Camea before flash started filming and wb ignored it. Heck, later he came back for flash reshoots--while he was on the run from the cops and wb just let a wanted man walk on the lot and work over calling the police as soon as he showed up so not shocked at all!