Former top Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso sudden exit from the company last month made headlines. Now, she has reportedly resolved her dispute with Disney in a multimillion-dollar settlement according to Variety.
Alonso’s time with the company dates back to the first “Iron Man”, and she has served as executive producer on all its titles since the first “Avengers” film hit screens (and was co-producer on almost all of the ones before that).
During her tenure, the MCU became the highest-grossing franchise in film history. Marvel Studios went from a company operating above a car dealership to being a significant part of the Disney empire.
Alonso joined the studio in 2006 as chief of visual effects and post-production and in 2021, was promoted to president, physical and post-production, visual effects and animation production.
In the wake of her firing, the reasoning for it became a point of major contention. Disney asserted it was over her producing and then promoting the Oscar-nominated film “Argentina, 1985” for rival Amazon Studios – a violation of an employment agreement.
Alonso’s attorney Patty Glaser dubbed that claim “absolutely ridiculous” and alleged Alonso had been “terminated when she refused to do something she believed was reprehensible”. The trade indicates the action involved removing an overtly LGBTQ image from “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”.
In 2022 Alonso came under fire in the wake of several stories about Marvel’s treatment of visual effects artists on its films and series – all culminating in the release of ‘Quantumania’ which was heavily criticized for substandard visual effects and is looking likely to lose money in its theatrical run.
