Jonathan Majors’ New Movie Walked Out On at Sundance Over Caption Issue

Jonathan Majors‘ new film at Sundance has already gotten off to a tough begin with the judges, who’ll resolve if it is a winner … ‘trigger it could not accommodate Marlee Matlin.

The actress, who’s deaf, is a part of a 3-person jury this yr that’ll vote within the U.S. Dramatic Competition that is underway at the movie fest in Park City, UT. However, as a result of she could not make out what was occurring onscreen for Majors’ flick, ‘Magazine Dreams,’ she and the opposite 2 jury members walked out of the screening Friday evening … this in response to Variety.

The outlet reviews {that a} captioning gadget had been given to Matlin earlier than the film began, but it surely appears it was malfunctioning … so somewhat than delay the screening additional — it had already been pushed again 45 minutes — the jurors collectively walked out in protest.

Apparently, that is half of a bigger problem at Sundance … which got here to a head throughout Majors’ film. Variety says, citing sources, {that a} letter had been despatched to the taking part filmmakers this yr pertaining to closed captioning — imploring them to submit cuts of their movies that included it so hearing-impaired viewers may take pleasure in with out hiccups like this one.

It learn partially, “As a jury our ability to celebrate the work that all of you have put into making these films has been disrupted by the fact that they are not accessible to all three of us.”

Variety reviews some Sundance filmmakers have been hesitant to incorporate CC — as they supposedly really feel it may make their films tougher to buy, to not point out the added prices and time that will are available together with a totally completely different copy only for the pageant.