Jonathan Majors' New Movie Walked Out On at Sundance Over Caption Issue - TMZ

Jonathan Majors' New Movie Walk-Out by Matlin, Other Jurors ... Caption Issue astatine Sundance

1/21/2023 4:00 PM PT

Jonathan Majors' caller movie astatine Sundance has already gotten disconnected to a unsmooth commencement with the judges, who'll determine if it's a victor ... 'cause it couldn't accommodate Marlee Matlin.

The actress, who's deaf, is portion of a 3-person assemblage this twelvemonth that'll ballot successful the U.S. Dramatic Competition that's underway astatine the movie fest successful Park City, UT. However, due to the fact that she couldn't marque retired what was happening onscreen for Majors' flick, 'Magazine Dreams,' she and the different 2 assemblage members walked retired of the screening Friday nighttime ... this according to Variety.

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The outlet reports that a captioning instrumentality had been fixed to Matlin earlier the movie started, but it seems it was malfunctioning ... truthful alternatively than hold the screening further -- it had already been pushed backmost 45 minutes -- the jurors collectively walked retired successful protest.

Apparently, this is portion of a larger contented astatine Sundance ... which came to a caput during Majors' movie. Variety says, citing sources, that a missive had been sent to the participating filmmakers this twelvemonth pertaining to closed captioning -- imploring them to taxable cuts of their films that included it truthful hearing-impaired viewers could bask without hiccups similar this one.

It work successful part, "As a assemblage our quality to observe the enactment that each of you person enactment into making these films has been disrupted by the information that they are not accessible to each 3 of us."

Variety reports immoderate Sundance filmmakers person been hesitant to see CC -- arsenic they supposedly consciousness it could marque their movies harder to shop, not to notation the added costs and clip that would travel successful including a wholly antithetic transcript conscionable for the festival.

Unclear if that applies to the director/producers of Majors' movie -- which is getting a batch of buzz -- but Sundance's CEO says they (the Sundance Institute) person enactment to bash successful this regard. As for 'Magazine Dreams' ... connection is, the assemblage volition find a mode to ticker it eventually.