Jackass co-creator Johnny Knoxville has unveiled the first trailer for the hit slapstick comedy franchise’s final film, Jackass: Best And Last, during the last day of CinemaCon.
Taking the stage Thursday at the Las Vegas movie convention, the professional prankster and stuntman, 55, introduced himself to the crowd.
“My name is Johnny Knoxville, and I’m going to try to not get emotional,” he said, according to Variety.
“This is the last Jackass film the world will ever see. Jackass means a hell of a lot for me,” Knoxville added. “We knew we were making the last one, so we went extra hard to make sure this was also our best Jackass film ever.”
The trailer reportedly featured plenty of archival footage, mixed in with brand-new stunts, including Knoxville receiving a prostate exam by a robot named Larry and Sean “Poopies” McInerney fastening a shock collar to his penis.
Jackass 5 will feature the return of original stars Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña, “Danger” Ehren McGhehey and Preston Lacy, all of whom have been with the franchise since it first made waves as a three-season reality stunt show on MTV. Fellow co-creators Jeff Tremaine and Spike Jonze will also return.
The new entry follows Jackass Forever in 2022, which welcomed newcomers McInerney, Jasper Dolphin, Eric Manaka and Rachel Wolfson.
Bam Margera, one of the original stuntmen, will not appear in Best and Last.
In January, he claimed he was not invited to participate in the last installment, alleging that he missed out on an expected $5 million paycheck as a result. The Independent has contacted Paramount for comment.
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Margera was fired from the fourth film after an alleged breach of contract related to his documented drug and alcohol use.
“If you had a laundry list of the chain of horrible events of the two years of Covid that they put me through, spending my own money at an alarming rate for therapists, doctors and treatment and all this, only to sit me down and tell me you’re not in the movie and you’re not getting $5 million,” Margera fumed to TMZ.
In 2021, Margera filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Jackass co-creators and stars Knoxville and Tremaine, along with producer Jonze, Paramount Pictures and MTV Networks. He alleged that Knoxville and Tremaine “coerced” him into signing the “wellness agreement” while he was in rehab, undergoing addiction treatment. A year later, he dropped the lawsuit after reaching a private settlement.
“I have a lot of PTSD from it all,” he told TMZ, “and you know, having the title of ‘Ex-Jackass star Bam Margera,’ I have to live with that. The humiliation, the abandonment and just embarrassment of it all, I had to let it go.
“As far as I know, I don’t have to film anything new [for Jackass 5], and I don’t want to,” Margera added. “They said we’re going to sift through a lot of old footage to try and create something new, and I said, ‘Hell yeah, go for it.’”
Jackass: Best and Last is out in theaters June 26.
