Jonathan Majors will no longer be playing Dennis Rodman in the tentatively titled feature 48 Hours in Vegas. In addition, Lionsgate is no longer involved with the project, Deadline has confirmed, which has been released to its producers, Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood.
If the project were to be shopped around again, we understand, it will be with another actor playing the power Chicago Bulls power forward.
The screenplay, written by Jordan VanDina, follows Rodman’s zany trip to Las Vegas in the midst of the 1998 NBA finals. CNN first had the news.
Following the guilty verdict, Majors was also dropped by Marvel Studios; the actor had played the villainous Kang the Conqueror in Disney+ series Loki and in the movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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