Good day all. Unless you have been living in a deep cave, under a rock at the back, you should know that Elon Musk is not happy with Disney CEO Bob Iger. This goes back to Disney pulling their advertising from TwitterX for political reasons. This led to Musk basically telling Iger and others to go have carnal relations with themselves.
This led to rumors that Elon Musk would pull some loose change from his sofa and give Nelson Peltz a couple of billion to play with in his proxy war with Disney. This rumor was further strengthened when Musk attended a film premier with Peltz and his daughter. Well, the other shoe dropped and it wasn’t what people thought it would be. Here are the details from Fox News:
Gina Carano, the former actress on the Disney+ Star Wars show “The Mandalorian,” sued The Walt Disney Company for “millions in lost income” over alleged wrongful termination and “discriminatory treatment” Tuesday.
Just an FYI, this was just before the Disney earnings call. I listened to that call, although I do not own any shares of Disney Stock.
“A short time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy in thought, speech, or action was acceptable in their empire, and that those who dared to question or failed to fully comply would not be tolerated,” the lawsuit, funded by X Corp. said.
This is where the rubber hits the road. Gina Carano was a popular character in Disney’s The Mandalorian, which is, or was until season three, the best show Disney has made for Disney Plus. I actually got a subscription to see it and some of the other shows that Disney has locked into their not to good and overpriced streaming service. Gina Carano was even being prepared for her own sequel when Disney fired her for political reasons.
Carano allegedly made waves for “refusing to support movements and ideologies with which she did not agree” including Black Lives Matter, COVID lockdowns and transgender pronouns.
The final straw for both Lucasfilm and Disney came when Carano drew criticism for a post on social media in which she compared today’s political divide to the events in Nazi Germany and conservatives to the Jewish people. The post included an image of a Jewish woman who was beaten and bloodied in a brutal campaign of anti-Jewish violence in Lwów when it was part of German-occupied territory.
From the legal reviews I’ve been been watching, primarily on the Legal Mindset, (Hat tip to the shout out from Andrew Esquire), the radical WOKE progressives took what Ms. Carano said completely out of context. (The link goes to the video of Andrew talking about this and it’s 3+ hours long)
Lucasfilm released a statement after the fact, which said, “[H]er social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural & religious identities are abhorrent & unacceptable.”
As I understand it, they announced Ms. Carano’s termination on TwitterX and didn’t actually contact her or her agent before hand. At the time, Ms. Carano lived in a regular neighborhood and found out what happened when a mob of media people showed up at her front door.
“But the rule of law still reigns over the Defendants’ empire. And Carano has returned to demand that they be held accountable for their bullying, discriminatory, and retaliatory actions—actions that inflicted not only substantial emotional harm, but millions of dollars in lost income,” the lawsuit said.
There is a great deal that hasn’t been covered by the Pixidusters in the MSM. One of the things that happened was someone included Ms. Carano in an email by mistake that demonstrated a concerted effort to black list her and utterly ruin her. Apparently there are other things that Ms. Carano and her lawyers have their hands on that seem to show an active conspiracy to harm Ms. Carano financially and potentially, physically.
Andrew Esquire of The Legal Mindset, as well as Ron Coleman have both spoken about the Carano lawsuit along with others on That Park Place. They all have said that the first thing that has to happen is that the case survives the motion to dismiss by Disney. The two lawyers, Andrew Esquire and Ron Coleman, both think there is sufficient evidence to deny the Motion to dismiss by Disney. If that does happen, the next phase is discovery, and from what I’ve been hearing, there is a lot of anecdotal information out there regarding actual Disney Employees colluding to “Get” Gina Carano.
Which brings us to Elon Musk. (Hi Bob!) Last summer Elon Musk posted a tweet on X announcing that if you were treated unfairly due to posting or liking something on his platform, (Before he actually took over), X would fund the legal bills. Ms. Carano responded and the rest, as they say, is history in the making.
Normally, in something like this, Disney would try to settle to avoid the discovery process. Basically they would throw a pile of money at Ms. Carano to basically shut up, (signing a non-disclosure agreement), and just go away. That isn’t going to happen this time. Disney is now facing someone who has pockets even deeper then theirs and who really wants to mash the Mouse.
This is really early days of course and it might be a couple of years before this goes to trial, and it will be going to trial if it survives Disney’s motion to dismiss. If Ms. Carano’s legal team shows that Disney’s officers basically conspired and colluded to damage Ms. Carano, they are going to get hit and hit very very hard. Time to buy more popcorn futures.
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