Back on topic, "Axanar the Movie" is pretty much dead at this point. The judge told them that since there was no injunction they were free to proceed, but there has been no progress. In my opinion, there won't be any progress because AP has spent all the donor money paying expenses and building his studio facility.
I think he wants a settlement as soon as possible, including the "guidelines" that will prevent him from making the movie. That's what the effort to unite other productions behind him has been about. He hopes to keep the studio, since it's apparently been handed over to the new investor group (read AP, RMB, & "partners"). His move to rent the space to another production will inject some cash, but the Axanar film will never be made.
The donors waiting for their perks will continue to wait until Axanar Productions is shut down, but I predict that the donor store will remain open for as long as the court allows.
This reeks of a giant scam that started out the same as Alec's others, but I think that he was genuinely surprised that it has come to this. He still thinks he's done nothing wrong.
The answer from the defense tells me that either Erin Ranahan is showboating, or LFIM is dictating the text of these documents.
If I were a real attorney, not just "by training," no way would I let a client run the case. Ranahan is no idiot. There's a strategy here, but I can't see it. If she's not in this just for publicity at this point, I have no earthly idea what she's up to.
