New Marvel Reporting Says Victoria Alonso's Firing Had Nothing To Do With The MCU

UPDATE: Victoria Alonso's lawyer, Patty Glaser, has issued a statement to Variety where she says, among other things, that Alonso did have Disney's "blessing" to work on Argentina, 1985, and claims the her client was "silenced" by the company. The original story continues below.

Last week, a major behind-the-scenes shakeup occurred at Marvel Studios with the departure of Victoria Alonso, who’d been one of the production company’s key executives since 2008’s Iron Man. While the initial reason for her exit wasn’t revealed, it was later reported that she was fired from Marvel Studios. Now a new piece of Marvel reporting states that Alonso’s firing had nothing to do with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but was instead tied to a different project.

Victoria Alonso was one of eight producers behind Argentina, 1985, the Argentine historical legal drama that was distributed by Amazon and was nominated for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards, although All Quiet in the Western Front emerged victorious in that category among the other 2023 Oscar winners. THR shared that Alonso “breached her contract several times” by working on Argentina, 1985, specifically a 2018 agreement that “stated employees would not work for competing studios.” While THR’s sources heard that Alonso did not receive permission to work on this non-Marvel movie, a report from Indiewire last month stated this wasn’t the case.