Jonathan Majors says he won't wait for Marvel to call. Instead, he's moving into a new space of action-packed, high-stakes storytelling, headlining Gerard McMurray's upcoming thriller True Threat. This film is pledged to be a raw, no-holes-barred trip through Harlem's violent underbelly, eschewing CGI tomfoolery for real, visceral action.
In True Threat, Majors plays Vernon Threat, a top-tier Special Forces operative whose breaking point is reached when his teenage son is killed by a brutal gang known as The Apollo Kids. Driven by vengeance, Threat storms The Carter, a massive 20-story housing complex, in relentless pursuit of the gang's elusive leader.
In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop, Majors said he is all in on the intensity of the Windy City project. "We're trying to make, maybe, one of the dopest action movies ever," he told Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur. "It's not blue screen. I start training next week. So it's going to be real. I'm looking forward to it."
The film also spotlights 52 Blocks, an African American martial arts style brought to the mainstream by Hip-Hop production but never before used in a high-budget Holly-Wood studio. Authenticity includes brutal fight choreography and street-level storytelling that will revolutionize the action genre.
But Majors is not stopping there with True Threat. He's also taking a plunge in Merciless, a sci-fi thriller helmed by Martine Villeneuve. Details are under wraps, but Majors described the film as a mind-bending drama that promises to challenge its audience intellectually. "I would say people could call Merciless a sci-fi thriller drama," he teased. "We're going to shoot that a little bit down the road."
And as if that weren't enough, Majors teased yet another tantalizing project — a supernatural CIA thriller. "There's another picture, which is a great story — the story about this man who is a C.I.A. agent who kind of gets caught up in this spiritual path, and the spiritual realm turns dark, and he's got to contend with that," he explained. "It is a story about a man. "How far will a man go to save his wife from this spiritual damnation?"
Majors's star power keeps rising, building on his performances in The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Lovecraft Country, Marvel's Loki, and Creed III, the last of which scored the record for the highest domestic box-office opening for a sports film. His role in The Harder They Fall only solidified his status as a dynamic new force in Hollywood.
Majors has had his public controversies, including a now-dropped lawsuit, but appears to be fixated on his work and turning out good work. Merciless, his next release, "True Threat," and an upcoming CIA thriller, he's showing the world that perseverance and talent are two sides of the same coin. Jonathan Majors hasn't even begun to peak, and his next act will surely be exciting
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