Victoria Alonso
has been fired as
Marvel
's president of physical production, post-production, visual effects and animation, three people familiar with the matter
told
Variety .
Disney did not immediately announce Alonso's replacement.
And given the breadth of the tasks that the Argentine performed,
it is likely that more than one person will be needed to take her place
at Marvel Studios.
His firing has raised numerous questions about the running of Marvel as Disney CEO Bob Iger tries to stabilize his parent company amid economic turmoil.
dismissal without clear cause
While
the cause of Alonso's firing is unclear
, the sources said, the decision was made by a consortium that included human resources people, Disney's legal department and several executives, including Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman ( who all of Marvel Studios reports to).
With Ricardo Darin, one day before the Oscar ceremony, where "Argentina, 1985" competed in West Hollywood.
Alonso's longtime boss and Marvel creative director,
Kevin Feige
, "felt trapped in an impossible situation," a source added, and ultimately did not intervene.
Alonso was surprised, added another source consulted by
Variety
, something like the Hollywood Bible.
Variety
reports that "a representative for Alonso declined to comment for this story. Marvel Studios did not comment."
And, always according to this medium, numerous sources pointed out the "tremendous pressure that the unit has been under in recent years to offer attractive content not only to theaters, but in the form of new transmission programs aimed at reinforcing Disney +. In 2021 and 2022, Marvel released 17 titles (seven movies, eight streaming series, and two TV specials) over 23 months.
The recent scant international success of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" is pointed out as one of the possible causes of Alonso's dismissal.
The Oscar
When we asked Alonso how she got into the Argentina, 1985 project as a producer, she told us: "Through Axel Kuschevatzky, who had wanted to work with me for a long time, and when he told me he was doing this, he asked me if I wanted to be part of it. , and I had to ask for permission. Obviously, they gave it to me, and we did it."
In recent days, stories have appeared on the internet, in which visual effects artists have begun complaining about Marvel's demanding post-production schedules.
"Complaints ranged from relentless overtime to chronic understaffing and an inability to avoid delivering substandard work due to constantly changing deadlines, but some noted that Alonso would blacklist artists who have pissed her off some way".
But another visual effects artist threw cold water on the idea that Alonso would fire artists, saying that "the idea of a very high-ranking executive terrifying ordinary artists, by some reports, feels a little out of place."
Three members of the MCU (The Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to its acronym in English) agreed that Alonso was just a supporting force on the set.
“She was the epitome of professional, and she knows what she's doing,” said a former Disney movie executive.
(News in development)
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