The plot details for beleaguered actor Jonathan Majors’ next feature film emerged Thursday when the trailer for the upcoming action movie from Daily Wire Films, Run Hide Fight 2: Infidels, debuted online.
The standalone sequel to the 2020 American action thriller, which follows a teenage girl outwitting gunmen who have taken over her high school, moves the action from the classrooms of suburbia to a New England college that has been transformed into a mini-caliphate after terrorists overtake the campus. The doozy of a premise combines this “what if?” scenario with headlines ripped from the past few years — and with this Red Dawn-like action flick coming from the Daily Wire, a right-wing perspective is to be expected.
The logline was sent to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, along with a shock-seeking teaser that caps a dark and violent montage with a pull-back-to-reveal shot of the campus caliphate.
“When radical Islamic terrorists hijack a liberal college’s pro-Palestine encampment to enforce barbaric Sharia law on students and execute infidels in a makeshift caliphate, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard tired of ‘Uncle Tom’ smears and a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers and keep America from surrendering to the enemy on its own soil,” the logline reads.
The premise is similar to the 1984 Patrick Swayze favorite, in which a group of Colorado teenagers work to defend their town from a Soviet and Cuban invasion. Producer Dallas Sonnier touched on the comparison while speaking to Page Six this week.
“We all worship at the altar of [director] John Milius and Red Dawn. And Eastwood, and all the other wonderful action stars of the ’80s — Stallone and Schwarzenegger. Nobody’s making these types of movies anymore,” he said.
The film, budgeted at $5 million according to Page Six, marks Majors’ return to the screen after a domestic violence incident swiftly led to his ouster from Hollywood and he was unceremoniously dropped from multiple major projects just as his profile was hitting a new peak. In 2023, Majors was arrested for physically assaulting his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari; he was found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of assault and harassment later that year. The Lovecraft Country star then spent a year completing an in-person domestic violence intervention program.
“[Majors] loved the script, loved shooting the movie, is so great in the film, and he is totally 1,000% behind it,” Sonnier said.
The production, slated for a fall release on Daily Wire+, courted some headline-grabbing controversy when members of the crew went on strike over safety conditions on the South Carolina set. The walkout began in April after Majors and co-star JC Kilcoyne accidentally fell through a window while filming, though it was tied to several other alleged incidents on set. Crew members also said communication between the director and crew was nearly nonexistent, as Deadline reported.
Sonnier, at the time, called the strike “illegitimate” and noted that he doesn’t “negotiate with Communists.”
THR reached out to The Daily Wire on Thursday for comment.
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