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Gina Carano Sueing for Wrongful Termination from Disney
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Well she did. The court case is over. We should all be happy. She was one of the best things about the mandalorian. Im not sure why no one likes her here.
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This much I think, everyone can agree on.
The details of the financial settlement and Carano's involvement with future Disney projects are purely speculative at this time and may well remain so forever.
I've never heard this, and I can't find anything about it online. Who was this first director?
Colin Trevorrow I believe. Hamill loved his scripts because he had a larger role and an actual lightsaber battle in episode 8 and survived for episide 9. Kennedy didnt like it and preferred Johnsons script. I read this in an interview with Hamill a long time ago.
Gina didn't win and Disney predictably spouted the typical meaningless corprospeak about "possibly working with her again".
I call it a hollow victory. I mean if she had zero case they could simply have crushed her and she would walk away with nothing. The only reason for them to not continue is because, they might lose or possible some info on what they did might come out and it would be bad PR.
Yet despite that, her career is mostly likely over. Even if she gets some roles it will likely not be good ones she might have previously gotten. A steep price for a small victory at best.
Yet despite that, her career is mostly likely over. Even if she gets some roles it will likely not be good ones she might have previously gotten. A steep price for a small victory at best.
If I get to see Cara Dunn again cool.
If not then cool.
If not then cool.
This though isn't a regular case. While I think in most cases it's always about saving money, I think they also know they could come away also looking bad because she was fired for political reasons. I think both sides are kind of happy with the result. Disney doesn't have to deal with the issue anymore and she gets some money and some talking points to get some attention in right wing media circles.
Who knows. She might even land a acting gig somewhere, because of it. Nothing high profile but I could see her getting hired for a Halllmark movie. Someone has to play the friend/aunt to Lacey Chabert when she comes home from the big city once again to learn the true meaning of Christmas.
You are correct that making the court case go away quickly is in Disney's best interest, because it reduces the risk of bad press and misinformation being spread - such as the the perception that she was fired for political reasons. In fact she wasn't fired for any reason - her contract simply wasn't renewed.
That's true. She wasn't under contract, but that was I am sure the same argument the NFL would/could use on Colin Kaepemick. It would maybe stick even better if they hadn't already been making plans to do that SW show with her in it.
I am guessing in court they would have to make a case as to why they didn't go through with the idea of doing the show. They would argue her comments would hurt the shows success but then her lawyers could probably find many cases of other high profile Disney people talking about political issues, who were not fired. Thus she was not hired for her political views, where other people who expressed their political views went unpunished.
Actually no, Rian was the only directo/writer associated with The Last Jedi, from the get-go (JJ made clear he only wanted to do the first one, and Rian was hired in 2014, almost a year and a half before Force Awakens was released.) Trevorrow was Episode 9 only, hired in August 2015.
Edited to add – Hamill may have been referring to the script for TFA. Lucas had written a story treatment and the first screenwriter Michael Arndt’s first draft of the script had Luke come in halfway through the movie. So I could see Luke having some real action in that film. Ultimately Arndt says that having Luke come in so early was problematic because he “took over the movie” and took focus away from the new main characters. Which honestly, I probably would not have had a problem with.
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But what about Cara Dune?
Because Neil Gaiman was the creator and executive producer of Sandman and EP of DBDA, and was accused of some pretty horrific shit. That's a big difference from him and a reccuring actor who said some offensive stuff.
If she's the lead actor on a new show I'm pretty sure I wouldn't watch it, unless there was some other aspect that I absolutely had to see. But if she had any kind of producer credit or anything like that I would definitely not watch.
I liked her character, but her horribleness overrides any of the characters positives, so I'm really hoping they don't actually bring her back.
Yeah, that confused me, there were plenty of other New Republic characters that could have lead the show.
Definitely. Kennedy is not involved in any of the creative aspects of the franchise, she's just on business side, so any creative decisions people don't like are not her fault.
Yeah, for me her hit has way more hits than misses, I even thought the Book of Boba Fett was OK, and I really enjoyed The Acolyte.
Her character was good, but no where near one of the best things about Mando, and people don't like her here because she's a horrible human being.
Yeah, she didn't win the case, and this has nothing to do with her being right or Disney being wrong, it's just easier for a big corporation to settle a lawsuit like this, because going to court, even when you'll probably win, is a pain in the ass, and it's easier to just throw a money at the problem to make it go away.
Probably, the case being settled doesn't change what she said, so people who don't want to be associated with those kind of attitudes are still going to stay away from her. If she's lucky she might get a job on some cheap right winger projects, but I can't imagine she'll ever be involved with anything on the level of Star Wars again.
I don't know, even Hallmark has been going a big more progressive these days, so they might stay away from her too.
Either way.
Hamill specifically mentioned trevorrow in the interview and his role in episide 8 in the script colin had written. I could be wrong. I need to find that interview.
Horrible human being? What did this lady do? I know she never hurt anyone wrestling or anything like that.
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