The House of Ideas has had one of its most difficult weeks in recent memory. Adding to the arrest of Jonathan Majors in a domestic dispute is intrigue over the abrupt firing of his president of physical production and post-production, visual effects and animation. Now, we have new details regarding frictions in ant man 3 that made Victoria Alonso collide with Disney and Marvel.
Last Friday the version of the dismissal of the executive for breach of contract began to circulate, due to her work in the film Argentina, 1985. A few hours later, Patty Glaser, Alonso’s lawyer, flatly rejected this version in a statement: “Victoria, a gay Latina who had the courage to criticize Disney, was silenced. She then got fired from her when she refused to do something she thought was disgusting.” But what was that “disgusting” request that caused tension between both parties?
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, insiders at Disney they believe that the fact to which the lawyer alluded was a request to censor references to gay pride in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The above, with the aim of releasing the film in Kuwait.
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In anticipation of the premiere of QuantumaniaMarvel executives requested that an editor blur a store window that featured rainbow decorations and the word “Pride.” Said showcase came out in just two brief scenes where we see Scott Lang walking down a street in San Francisco.
It’s no secret that Disney has been battling censorship in countries with strong anti-LGBTQ laws, particularly in the Middle East. In fact, Marvel already had to remove a 10-second scene in which Aneka kisses Ayo on the forehead for the version of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in Kuwait.
The application of the blur in ant man 3 came to Victoria Alonso in her role as visual effects and post-production supervisor at Marvel. However, she flatly refused to allow her team to make such a change. Victoria is openly gay and has been a strong advocate for inclusivity in the brand. It was then that the study decided to turn to an external provider to address this issue.
According to sources, there were other changes to the Kuwait version of the film, the only country where LGBTQ references were removed. The edit also removed all references to alcohol and the sequence that focused on MODOK’s butt.
So far, Marvel Studios and Victoria Alonso have stayed away from openly commenting on her departure. However, the legal representative of the producer promised, through the aforementioned statement, that we will know his version of events very soon: “Disney and Marvel made a really bad decision that will have serious consequences. There is much more to this story and Victoria will tell it shortly, in one forum or another.”
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