Posted on 08/08/2025 10:58:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
When it comes to its “Star Wars” franchise, The Walt Disney’s Company’s Death Star just exploded.
On Thursday, in a decisive turn of events, Disney and conservative actress Gina Carano announced the settlement of a lawsuit Carano filed last year accusing the House of Mouse of wrongful termination.
And while the exact terms weren’t disclosed, there’s no doubt who the winner was.
Carano’s statements on Thursday make it clear.
“[A]nd the truth shall set you free,” she wrote in a post on the social media platform X.
She followed that up with a lengthier statement that thanked mega-billionaire and Renaissance man Elon Musk for financially supporting her lawsuit. She thanked her attorneys and her supporters.
And she thanked God.
Those are not the sentiments of the losing side.
Disney fired Carano in 2021 from her role in the “Star Wars” spinoff series “The Mandalorian” after she stirred controversy by using a social media post to compare the treatment of conservatives in the United States to the public abuse and systematic roundup of Jews in Nazi Germany.
She deleted the post, but Carano’s outspoken views had already made her a target in COVID-era America, and Disney hit hard.
The company not only fired her, it issued a public statement denouncing her views as “abhorrent and unacceptable.” It declared that not only was Carano no longer employed by the company, but that “there are no plans for her to be in the future.”
(In an old movie, that would be the movie mogul villain telling a young heroine: “You’ll never work in this town again.”)
Carano, a former professional mixed martial arts fighter, responded by fighting back, aided greatly by Musk, who funded her lawsuit.
Disney, for its part, published a statement Thursday that — in light of its caustic 2021 attack — needs to be seen to be believed.
“The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with Gina Carano to resolve the issues in her pending lawsuit against the companies,” the statement said, according to the trade publication Variety.
“Ms. Carano was always well respected by her directors, co-stars and staff, and she worked hard to perfect her craft while treating her colleagues with kindness and respect. With this lawsuit concluded, we look forward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future.”
So, Carano has gone from being “abhorrent and unacceptable” to “always well respected.” Her employment status has gone from essentially “never again,” to Disney looking forward to ways to work with her “in the near future.”
To paraphrase Winston Churchill in another Nazi-era context, that’s abasement wrapped in embarrassment inside a humiliation.
As a headline for the entertainment news website Deadline put it, hearkening back to Carano’s professional fighting past:
“This Really Is The Way! Gina Carano Piledrives Disney Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing With Settlement & Job Offers.”
As usual with lawsuit settlements, the behind-the-scenes moves are likely to remain behind the scenes, but it’s a good chance that a procedural win by Carano in April set the stage.
A court ordered Disney, at Carano’s legal team’s request, to produce files documenting compensation to the stars of “The Mandalorian” and other “Star Wars” series. That might have proven how differently Carano was treated compared to fellow “The Mandalorian” star Pedro Pascal.
Whatever is in those files, Disney is keeping it out of the public eye.
But whatever was behind it, there’s no question that Carano scored a resounding, all-but-declared sweeping victory.
As most Americans know, the original “Star Wars” movie climaxed with the explosion of the Death Star, the most fearsome weapon of the evil Galactic Empire.
That didn’t mean the death of the empire — and Carano’s win over Disney doesn’t mean the death of the liberal fascism (in Jonah Goldberg’s memorable wording) that has a chokehold on Hollywood and so much of American culture.
But it shows victory is possible — and the conservative fight is worth it.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Well, good for her. Pretty sure with her families help she could afford to pursue a law suit. (Caesars). Regardless, the mouse can eat some rat poison.
WHAT KIND OF WOMAN MAKS A MOUSE CRY?
They wrote her a check that’s small by their standards and pinky swore to hire her again. Good for her, but not exactly a stunning rebuke of Disney. Heck they might actually even hire her.
My wife would stomp a mouse to death.....................
If they base the settlement on that Woke dudes salary, Gina will be RICH! Not that she is not rich to begin with of course...
A win for sure, but that statement is not nearly groveling enough to be considered "humiliating". That would have required retraction and apology. We'll see if they find a prominent role for her at the level she had in The Mandalorian. She's been black balled in Hollywood since Disney fired her, getting only a couple low budget b-roles. I don't think this undoes that, unless Disney agreed to give her roles as part of the settlement. Hopefully, her settlement included several million dollars to compensate for her damaged career.
I was told many years ago by an HR director that when you fire a person do not ever give out any information to prospective employers other than that they worked here from this date to that date, else you could be set up for a lawsuit.............
Beep, bop, boop! Carano gets to keep her chosen pronouns! You go, girl!
Go Woke and pay the price.
The left has grown quite confident in their ability to crush anyone that doesn’t toe the progressive line, or at least keep silent if they don’t openly support it. Hopefully this is a signal that the era of cancel culture is over.
Gina Carano rocks my socks.
Image taken back in the day when she had not porked out.
My wife would stomp a mouse to death.....................
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My wife kills scorpions with brooms - and breaks the broom....
I’d pay to see that but I was at work.
Some here may not know the full story. Twitter was trying to bully her about putting her pronouns in her bio. She put Beep, Bop, boop and they wokesters went crazy.
They tried to get her fired any way they could and then seized on her repost of a tweet to claim she was anti-Semitic.
Disney, in the height of their woke phase, promptly not only fired her, but smeared her reputation. They truly tried to make her unemployable.
She may be bigger than her prime, but I wouldn’t call her that and I bet you would never do it to her face, because she would remove yours.
First Governor DeSantis, now Gina Carano. I think maybe Disney should stop going woke before it goes broke.
Not guilty!
Gina Carano movie - “Haywire”
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1506999/
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