Safety Red Flags Pile Up on Jonathan Majors Comeback Film Set

If you thought Jonathan Majors was done making headlines, buckle up. His latest gig—a Daily Wire-backed action flick—has landed itself in the kind of behind-the-scenes mess you usually hear about ten years after a movie flops. And not the good kind of chaos, either.

So, What Went Down in South Carolina?

About a week ago, a chunk of the IATSE crew on the set straight up walked off the job. Why? Because, according to reports, they had serious safety worries. This wasn’t just grumbling—those concerns eventually turned into a full-blown strike.

The union tried to hammer out a deal, mostly to make sure people got paid into things like health and pension funds. Seems reasonable, right? Not to the producers, apparently. When pressed, the folks behind the movie—partnering The Daily Wire and Dallas Sonnier’s Bonfire Legend—doubled down with a statement to Deadline that they "don’t negotiate with communists." Subtle, right?

How Bad Are We Talking?

It gets worse. One of the major flare-ups wasn’t just the union back-and-forth. During a shoot, both Jonathan Majors and his co-star JC Kilcoyne actually tumbled out of a window. Not on purpose. The pair reportedly fell about six feet through a panel of tempered glass. Deadline got the actual incident on video (if you’re morbidly curious).

Kilcoyne didn’t walk away unscathed—he needed stitches all over his hand. Not surprisingly, his reps put out a statement saying "JC did not feel unsafe on set and continues to have a positive experience," but…I mean, come on.

The set hasn’t exactly been a model of safety otherwise, either. Props apparently keep dropping on people. There’s a report a rigged tree branch actually fell directly on the set’s medic. Let me repeat that: the person you need when things go wrong is the one getting hit.

More Than a Few Red Flags

• There’s no official production call list. The crew has had to make their own “black market” version just to keep tabs on each other—so nobody vanishes in the chaos.
• Special effects supervisor Chris Bailey comes with baggage: He previously pled guilty to having illegal explosives on another movie set. He’s officially not supposed to handle explosive materials because of it. Bailey downplays the whole thing as a "paperwork infraction," denying any mishandling of pyrotechnics.
• Producers remain aggressively dismissive of the union concerns. Sonnier’s official response? ‘The entire industry is in freefall due to strikes, and now that their members are out of work, they’re trying to sabotage the few people who are still producing. We don’t negotiate with communists.’

If you’re sensing a pattern here—a mix of wild west management and zero interest in listening to crew feedback—you’re not alone. Sonnier’s other comments to Deadline make it even clearer: The production is "too busy being bad asses, blowing shit up, flying helicopters, and killing movie terrorists to concern ourselves with four assholes with signs on the sidewalk and their illegitimate 'strike'."

The Movie Itself (If They Finish It)

The film is directed by Kyle Rankin, who previously made Run Hide Fight (the one about a school shooting that got the Daily Wire’s audience riled up). That movie launched Isabel May, who moved on to much bigger things, including Yellowstone: 1883 and the upcoming Scream 7. This Majors-led project is supposed to premiere on The Daily Wire as well—assuming they don’t lose every crew member first.

Genuinely curious: Does this sound like a “bad-ass” movie set or a lawsuit waiting to happen? Sound off below.