Jackass trailer teases Bam Margera return after he signs deal to appear in final film
The first trailer has dropped for the Jackass: Best and Last, a film that has been promised to be the final ever movie from the Jackass crew.
The trailer hints at some scenes that will involve Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, and the whole Jackass gang going through some pretty messed up stunts and pranks.
If you don’t keep up with Jackass news, however, one of the most surprising details from the trailer however is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment.
Bam Margera, who has had a public feud with Knoxville and the show’s creator Jeff Tremaine, is shown in a couple of scenes in the trailer in archival footage from the earlier films.
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Whilst one of these scenes is a previously unseen stunt however, Margera is not returning as a full cast member even though he is appearing in the film.
Margera signed a deal to appear via archival footage, but this will include scenes in Jackass Forever from which he was fired
Fans on X were confused about the new scene as Margera does not appear in any of the other group shots made for Jackass: Best and Last, but even superfans will have never seen the stunt.
The reason no one will have seen the scene is because when Margera signed a deal to appear via archival footage this included scenes from 2022’s Jackass Forever, the film where he was fired for breaching a wellness agreement.
His existing issues with drug abuse and alcoholism had worsened after the death of fellow cast member and Margera’s close friend Ryan Dunn in 2011.
Margera claimed in the past that he was ‘co-erced’ into signing a ‘draconian agreement’ in his contract for the film which included mandatory rehab. The Jackass star was fired after testing positive for Adderall.
The skateboarder made several threats to Tremaine, ultimately receiving a restraining order, however settled out of court with the creators of Jackass and Paramount after suing them due to the termination of his contract.
Margera explained why he agreed to the money but won’t film any new stunts
It was announced earlier this year that he had struck a deal to return solely through archive footage, including the scenes from Jackass Forever he filmed prior to being fired.
Speaking to TMZ, the 46-year-old spoke about the Jackass film and his return, Margera said: "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 five million dollars... I watch Dateline and people kill people for a whole lot less."
He continued: "I have a lot of PTSD from it all and just having the title now of 'ex-Jackass star Bam Margera,' I have to live with that.
“The humiliation, the abandonment and just the embarrassment of it all, I had to let it go."
He said that his reaction when asked about using old footage for the new film however was ‘Hell yeah, go for it’, adding: “I remember filming so much crazy s**t that never made it to the movie simply because it was just too long or too gnarly.
"But, I mean, I said yeah. Have at it."
Jackass: Best and Last releases 26 June, 2026.
Michael Slavin