Run Hide Fight: Infidels, the follow-up to The Daily Wire’s 2020 campus-shooting thriller, began streaming on Daily Wire+ on 16 September 2026, according to ComingSoon.net. The film stars Jonathan Majors as Clay Saunders, a retired Delta Force officer who confronts a group of Islamist militants after they seize control of a university encampment and attempt to impose Sharia law, a plot summarised by both The Guardian and Slate. Kyle Rankin, who wrote and directed the original film, returned for the sequel, and the project was produced under The Daily Wire’s studio banner co-founded by Ben Shapiro, according to Slate’s report.
Majors’s casting has drawn attention chiefly because of his legal history. He was convicted in 2023 of misdemeanour assault and harassment stemming from an incident involving his former girlfriend Grace Jabbari, a conviction that led Marvel Studios to drop him from planned roles, as reported by Slate. Majors has continued to deny that he assaulted Jabbari, according to Slate’s account of his public statements. Slate described Majors as one of several performers who have found work with politically conservative studios after facing professional fallout elsewhere, though the outlet stopped short of characterising this as an organised industry pattern.
Critics who reviewed the finished film were largely unimpressed, though for differing reasons. Variety’s review called the film ‘more an epic act of trolling than a sincere creative endeavour’ and argued that its treatment of every character, regardless of political leaning, is so reductive that the film’s failures are primarily artistic rather than ideological, according to Variety. The Guardian’s review was harsher on the film’s politics, describing it as propaganda built around fear of Islam and arguing that Majors’s participation amounts to an attempt to rebuild his career through a studio explicitly positioned against mainstream Hollywood, according to The Guardian.
A film built on culture war themes
Slate’s review situated Infidels within a broader pattern established by the original Run Hide Fight, arguing that both films treat campus violence less as tragedy and more as an opportunity for students to prove their toughness under threat. Slate noted that the sequel layers an explicit Israel-Gaza campus protest storyline onto that template, which the outlet described as ‘a new layer of up-to-the-minute culture war’ compared with the first film’s focus on gun violence. Slate also noted that Majors ‘may or may not have regretted’ taking the role, without elaborating on the basis for that assessment.
How the outlets framed it
Variety framed the film mainly as a technical failure, arguing that its shoddy filmmaking means neither its intended conservative audience nor the Muslim viewers it targets are likely to feel strongly about it either way, treating the politics as almost secondary to the craft. The Guardian took the opposite approach, framing the film primarily as dangerous propaganda and Majors’s casting as evidence of how far a disgraced actor will go to rebuild a career, spending comparatively little time assessing the production values. Slate split the difference, tying the film’s content directly to Majors’s post-conviction career strategy while also situating it within a longer pattern of campus-violence films from the same director. None of the three outlets substantially engaged with The Daily Wire’s own defence of the project, which has argued that industry hostility toward the film reflects discomfort with its subject matter rather than fair criticism of its quality.
The dispute over how to characterise Infidels has become nearly as prominent as the film itself. Reviewers agree that the film pairs an inflammatory premise with Majors’s ongoing effort to return to leading roles after his 2023 conviction, but they diverge sharply on whether the greater problem is the politics, the craftsmanship, or the casting decision that put a convicted offender back in front of audiences.
