‘Horrifying’ new film trailer causes outrage with radical Islamic terrorist plot

Jonathan Majors’ latest film is not a satire, but you’re going to find that increasingly difficult to believe.

The official synopsis reads like someone asked AI to combine every American culture-war talking point into a single paragraph, didn’t proofread, and then pressed send.

Majors, who plays a Delta Force veteran in the upcoming Daily Wire film (Ben Shapiro’s media company) Run Hide Fight: Infidels, has found himself at the centre of a social media pile-on after the movie’s astonishingly chaotic premise was finally revealed.

According to the official logline, ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ hijack a pro-Palestine college encampment before imposing Sharia law on students, prompting ‘a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard tired of “Uncle Tom” smears and a Delta Force vet’ to save America from surrendering ‘to the enemy on its own soil.’

I can’t decide whether to laugh, cry, or pour myself a stiff drink and do some breathing exercises to try to smother the impulse to respond angrily to another of my conservative uncle’s Facebook posts.

The trailer doesn’t offer any comfort either.

It opens with footage of 9/11, ISIS executions, college protests, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio before ending on the image of an ISIS flag flying above a university campus alongside the tagline: ‘Coming soon… Or already here.’

Clearly, Majors’ strengths do not lie in subtle thematic exploration.

But if his goal was to spark conversation, congratulations are certainly in order because plenty of people had…thoughts.

‘That description HAS to be a joke,’ one person wrote on X. ‘What, they couldn’t fit a trans character in there to top off all their talking points? This s*** is pathetic.’

Another said: ‘This might be the worst premise ever, all bias aside. Sounds so bad Dean Cain has to be involved somehow.’

A third simply concluded: ‘This is such horrifyingly obvious propaganda.’

Even putting politics aside, many people seemed genuinely baffled by how many buzzwords had been crammed into a single plot summary.

It feels less like someone asked ‘What’s this film about?’ and more like they asked, ‘Can we fit every Fox news headline from the last five years into one sentence?’

The film has been produced by conservative media company The Daily Wire, co-founded by Ben Shapiro, and reportedly cost around $5million.

Majors plays the Delta Force veteran at the heart of the action, marking one of his most high-profile roles since being convicted in 2023 of assault and harassment relating to an incident involving his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.

The actor avoided jail but was sentenced to probation and a domestic violence intervention programme.

Before his legal troubles, Majors was one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising stars, appearing in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Creed III, and The Last Black Man in San Francisco, while earning an Emmy nomination for Lovecraft Country.

As a result of the charges, he was dropped by Marvel and Disney, with questions over whether his role as Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe would be recast.

According to producer Dallas Sonnier, who spoke to Page Six about the upcoming film, Majors is ‘1,000%’ behind the project and is expected to promote it ahead of its release.

Sonnier said: ‘The woke mind virus has captured Hollywood for the past 12 years, and while woke is winding down, there is a new obsession with the anti-Israel, pro-Palestine movement that deserves to be mocked in a movie again.” The producer added: “If you’re afraid to put radical jihadis as your villains, then you’re a wimpy movie producer. We don’t have that fear.

‘The movie itself goes so much further than this teaser in terms of the insanity, and a lot of people will say, ‘I can’t believe you guys did that… I can’t believe this exists.’ And that’s the beauty [of] being unencumbered by the system that most Hollywood producers have to work in, and the benefit of what we’ve built over here.’

Whether audiences will embrace that ‘insanity’ is another matter.