The Daily Wire has released the first trailer for Run Hide Fight: Infidels, a follow-up to its 2020 action thriller Run Hide Fight, and it has not arrived quietly. Jonathan Majors stars in the project, which debuts September 16 on the platform.
Directed by Kyle Rankin, the film follows a Delta Force veteran, a security guard and a group of students who band together after a college campus is seized. The premise alone sparked immediate backlash when the logline was revealed five weeks ago, with the LA Times calling it “xenophobic and Islamophobic” and accusing it of “rehashing 40-year-old tropes while invoking conspiracy theories of Muslims bringing Sharia law to America.”
The logline also includes a reference to a security guard “tired of Uncle Tom smears,” a line that drew its own round of criticism for its use of racial language in an already politically charged context.
The cast includes Jonathan Majors, JC Kilcoyne, Stephen Hailo, Tyler Aser as Lizzy Dupree, James Bingham as P.J., Sharon Johal, Charlotte Delaney Riggs as Farrah Abel, David Lucas, Chase Ramsey as Hermann and Jason Gray-Stanford.
The Daily Wire has positioned itself over the past several years as a parallel distribution pipeline for talent outside of traditional Hollywood, having previously produced films with Armie Hammer and Gina Carano following her exit from The Mandalorian. Producer Dallas Sonnier, who responded to a labor strike on set by stating his company does not negotiate with, in his words, “communists,” told Page Six the studio worships at the altar of John Milius and the action films of the 1980s, adding that “the woke mind virus has captured Hollywood for the past 12 years.”
The production saw its own share of turbulence beyond the politics. Majors and co-star JC Kilcoyne fell through an unsecured window on set, an incident that intensified an existing strike by unionized crew members from IATSE who had already cited safety concerns and labor disputes. Sonnier confirmed that Majors loved the script and will do press for the film.
Majors, who was dropped from numerous projects following a 2023 domestic violence conviction, has other work in the pipeline as well, including the supernatural revenge thriller Merciless from director Martin Villeneuve and Dinner at Nick’s, which was announced at Cannes.
Run Hide Fight: Infidels debuts September 16 exclusively on The Daily Wire.