Summary
- Jonathan Majors and co-star JC Kilcoyne fell six feet through an unsecured sheet of tempered glass while filming a scene on the South Carolina set of an untitled Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend action movie in late March.
- Following the incident and additional safety concerns, more than half the crew walked off and unionized with IATSE, resulting in a labor strike on March 26.
- Producers responded to the strike with a series of incendiary statements, including declaring they “don’t negotiate with communists.”
Jonathan Majors can’t seem to catch a break. Or, apparently, a window frame.
Majors and co-star JC Kilcoyne were the victims of a movie stunt gone wrong, falling through a glass window and tumbling six feet down to the ground on the South Carolina set of his much-anticipated — or, depending on your perspective, much-dreaded — comeback film. The accident, first reported by Deadline, was even captured on video for everyone to watch on a slow Friday afternoon.
Here’s the part that makes it worse: the accident occurred after the window was replaced with an unsecured sheet of tempered glass meant to be shattered in a later stunt that did not involve any actors. In other words, nobody told the actors they were essentially leaning against a very loose, very breakable pane of glass. Cool safety protocols, everyone.
The tempered glass was only sitting loosely in the window, and Kilcoyne required stitches “all over his hands” after the accident. Majors, reportedly, walked away uninjured. His reps have stayed conspicuously silent on the whole thing — though in the footage, Majors can be heard saying “Use it!” before the fall. Make of that what you will.
Kilcoyne’s team was a bit more forthcoming. In a statement, reps for Kilcoyne wrote that the actor “is doing well and was taken care of immediately by production,” adding that “JC did not feel unsafe on set and continues to have a positive experience working on the project.” Bold stance from a man who needed hand stitches.
Meanwhile, the crew had a decidedly different take on the “positive experience” vibe. One crew member, who arrived on set after the incident to help reset the scene, told Deadline on the condition of anonymity: “When I got there, nobody mentioned anything about people falling out the window…It seemed weird to me.” Weird is one word for it.
The window fall turned out to be the straw that broke the camel’s back — or, the pane that sent the actors to the ground. The window in the scene had been replaced with an unsecured sheet of tempered glass, and both Majors and Kilcoyne fell backward through it, landing about six feet below. The incident accelerated a wave of safety complaints that had apparently been building for weeks.
Jonathan Majors and his co-star accidentally fell through a window while shooting a scene for a Daily Wire action film, leading crew to walk off the set over safety concerns
Producers say they “don’t negotiate with communists”https://t.co/Q5hE676b3n pic.twitter.com/cp5KZkvVKJ
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 4, 2026Crew members who walked off the job told Deadline that it was just the tip of the iceberg in terms of their concerns. Multiple workers corroborated incidents involving props falling onto crew, including a rigged tree branch that hit the set medic. There were also reports of black mold in buildings and a lack of standard safety coordinators. A full house of red flags, basically.
Following the incident, more than half the crew working on the film decided to walk off and unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), resulting in a labor strike on March 26. By the time things escalated, more than 60% of the crew had signed union cards affirming their desire for a collective bargaining agreement with IATSE.
The producers’ response to all of this? Unhinged, frankly.
In a statement, producer Dallas Sonnier said he and his fellow producers were “too busy being bad asses, blowing sh*t up, flying helicopters, and killing movie terrorists to concern ourselves with four assholes with signs on the sidewalk and their illegitimate ‘strike’.”
And then, seemingly deciding that wasn’t enough, Sonnier doubled down. In a new response to Deadline, Sonnier said: “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.”
As for the video of Majors and Kilcoyne going out the window? Sonnier told The Hollywood Reporter, “The actors’ fall was shorter than the failed movie careers of the now-union reps.” Cool. Very mature. Very professional.
The film, which has since been identified as Run Hide Fight Infidels, is described as an “anthology sequel” to director Kyle Rankin’s 2020 action thriller Run Hide Fight, with a story said to be in the vein of ’80s and ’90s action movies like Red Dawn and Toy Soldiers. Ben Shapiro is producing for The Daily Wire.
The untitled film marks Majors’ first movie in four years after he was dropped from numerous projects when found guilty in 2023 of assaulting his former girlfriend. A comeback vehicle involving a literal fall through a window, strikes, and producers calling union workers communists. Truly, the Hollywood redemption arc we didn’t see coming.
