Victoria Alonso Considers Legal Action Against Disney, Wonders About Sudden Layoffs; Attorney Patty Glaser promises “severe consequences” as Mouse House points to “undoubted breach of contract.”

The Walt Disney Company is facing “serious consequences” and possible legal action over this week’s pink slip from Marvel VFX boss Victoria Alonso.

To make it clear to Bob Iger, Kevin Feige and everyone at the House of Mouse that she wasn’t going to sit still, the Oscar-nominated producer enlisted the services of Patty Glaser. To that end, glassmaker Weil Fink shared what’s going on at BTS with competing POVs, Howard Avchen and Shapiro LLP partner Disney.

In a statement released Friday to the now-former president, physical and post-production, VFX and animation production for Marvel Studios, the litigator has already taken Disney-owned LucasFilm to court over canned goods war of stars TV programs The Acolyte EP Karyn McCarthy said:

The idea that Victoria was fired for a handful of press interviews related to a personal passion project about human rights and democracy that was nominated for an Oscar and received Disney’s blessing to work on is absolutely ridiculous. Victoria, a gay Latina who dared to criticize Disney, was silenced. Then she was fired when she refused to do something she considered reprehensible. Disney and Marvel made a very bad decision that will have dire consequences. There is much more to this story and Victoria will tell it soon – in some forum.

Disney wouldn’t take this shot without a message of its own about the arc.

“It is unfortunate that Victoria is telling a story that omits several key factors in her departure, including an undeniable breach of contract and a direct violation of company policy,” a Disney spokesperson told Deadline Tonight. “We continue to wish her all the best in the future and thank her for her many contributions to the studio.”

Alonso still has them Possibility is your superpower memoir to be published on the Disney imprint later this year.

The extremely press-friendly Alonso, who has consistently championed diversity at Disney, to the point where she called on then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek to take a stand against Florida’s anti-LGBTQ+ “Don’t Say Gay” legislation. Bill abruptly left Marvel Studios earlier this week after nearly two decades.

“So I’m asking you again, Mr. Chapek: please respect — if our family sells — stand against all these crazy outdated laws,” Alonso told a GLAAD audience about the Sunshine State’s clear discrimination movement, aka the Home or Disney World. . “Stand up for the family. Stop saying you tolerate us… We deserve the right to live, love and have. Most importantly, we deserve an origin story.

We’re hearing that after her comments to GLAAD last April about Disney’s mishandling of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law, Alonso was benched by executives and told she couldn’t do any interviews or media at all. Alonso was even asked by a famous director to endorse a Marvel movie late last year, but she remained silent. Then came the self-described “reprehensible” incident, which apparently involved a disagreement with a Disney executive, who we’ve learned is not Iger.

With that, however, we learn that the Buenos Aires-born Alonso did not initially apply for permission to produce the Oscar-nominated “Argentina, 1985,” but did rework her contract out of respect for her long tenure with the company. The sticking point was that Alonso clearly shouldn’t be promoting the political drama she was promoting. That was the sticking point, says an insider.

As for Alonso staying away from the press, there are more than a handful of media clippings from last June announcing her memoir and quoting the executive at the time.

Deadline has certainly been met with increasingly sharp elbows when it comes to court.

Aside from the tight schedule, an insider cited how Alonso would take days off to manage her own personal business affairs (read producing the Argentina 1985 Oscar-nominated film), and it ultimately led to some stalling of Marvel films and TV series in the post-production pipeline, leading to major theatrical release dates. While many studios have experienced delays at post-production houses due to the pandemic, Disney has postponed its bigger films several times viz. Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness, Thor Love & Thunder, Black Panther Wakanda forever And Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania and last The wonders. In the Iger 2.0 era of new cost-cutting and job cuts, VFX expenses — which mostly fall under Alonso’s domain — count as one of the line items to control.

Whether that means opening the door for Alonso is another matter entirely, likely heading for a payout or lawsuit at this rate.

Hollywood heavyweight litigator Glaser’s appointment is the first time through diversity.