CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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Alec has no morals and of course It’s a scam.
What will happen is like the last indiegogo. He won’t raise enough for the movie but he’ll decide to keep the money abd use it for something else like the studio and nobody can complain because they have to know what are getting into this time.
No
No it wouldn't.
Sadly there are plenty of morons who will still pony up the cash.
Exactly. He has no finished script. No finished set. No actors. No director. No producer.
At this point they almost deserve what they get if they donate again.
It's ok. Remember, Prelude to Axanar was always Part III, IN UNIVERSE!
It's ok. Remember, Prelude to Axanar was always Part III, IN UNIVERSE!
Axanar part 1. Garth growing up as a boy on a desert planet and we find out the amazing Garth is just a whiny brat.
No one will be seated during the heart-pounding Mom waking him up every two hours scene.
Just so we're all on the same page:
- The $50,000 restriction on fan films in the guidelines applies only to the limit on crowdfunding per 15-minute episode. There is no limit to spending so long as the source of the funding is private. Under the settlement, Axanar Lite™ can't raise any money via crowdfunding. But they're allowed to raise as much as they can privately.
- There was never intended to be a part 1 or 2 to Axanar Lite™. Prelude being called part 3 is a dramatic conceit to create an in-universe impression that these short films are part of some grander examination of the Four Years War on which Axanar is based. In fact, up until the lawsuit settlement, there were never intended to be parts 4 and 5. Restrained from producing a feature-length film, Alec Peters decided (over the objections of director Robert Meyer Burnett) to split up the 30 mins. allowed by the settlement into two episodes and producing them as if they were the concluding two parts of the in-universe Four Years War History Channel-style documentary retrospective. Burnett wanted to simply produce the first 30 mins. of the feature script since so much preproduction work had already been completed for that.
- Expect some controversy over what constitutes "public fundraising" when the time comes. We've already seen several attempts at end runs around the settlement terms. Peters will likely assert that the restriction applies only to crowdfunding, when any public appeal for money (and/or creating a technical means for accepting said funds) in fact may violate the settlement. Stay tuned.
Thanks for the explanation of the $50K restriction, Carlos. I clearly did not understand that it only applied to crowd funding.
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Yeah, Battlestar Galactica. 
This kind of shit is why I preferred Starlog to any other outlet when covering science fiction media; at least that publication would NEVER do shoddy 'journalism' like what CNN did (and it also set up a house rule to NEVER use the word 'geek' or 'nerd' in describing science fiction fandom.) But because of the changes brought about because of the Internet, and declining readership, it went to the great magazine graveyard in the sky in April of 2009.
And what do we have in its place? Crappy online clickbait sites that do shoddy 'journalism' about the media that get stories wrong more often then they do get them right, plus a whole host of other errors. But the main ire should be that a major news organization that's supposed to be a respected leader in news gathering can't even get things right and is making schoolboy howler errors, plus can't even be calm, cool, collected and knowledgeable about a major event like this one compared to the coverage of said event by the main TV network of the country in which the event happened.
We really and truly need better news media.
"Almost"? They DO deserve what they get if they fall for his scam again. It's the only way they'll learn.
Interesting line in this blog post on Axanar site about movie budgets and profititablity:
http://www.axanarproductions.com/quentin-tarantino-to-make-new-star-trek-movie/
http://www.axanarproductions.com/quentin-tarantino-to-make-new-star-trek-movie/
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