Sounds like a cash grab.
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens
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At the end of the day, isn't it always?
Paramount paid for the rights to the article, they made a movie, they lost the rights to the article, they made a second movie. Regardless of the merits of the claim, you'd think someone at Paramount would have foreseen this lawsuit as a possibility.
They probably did and decided it was cheaper to eventually settle (if the estate made an issue of it, which they have) than run some preemptive interference to get ahead of it. They'll settle, write it off on their corporate taxes (and probably figure out how to profit from it) and not even break a sweat.
Sure. And it's cheaper to settle. Most corporations are ok with suits because they can pay to make it go away.
Indeed. Just on the basis of this account, it sounds like it could be grounds for a lawsuit. I see lawsuit or settlement.
I assume that some corporations would rather be proactive and not let it get to that point. Would settling a lawsuit be less expensive than reacquiring the rights before the movie was made?
Maybe. But the time table might not be what they want.
Axanar has a blog post on why they sued Paul Jenkins:
https://axanar.com/why-we-sued-paul-jenkins-of-meta-x-studios-for-copyright-fraud-and-defamation/
https://axanar.com/why-we-sued-paul-jenkins-of-meta-x-studios-for-copyright-fraud-and-defamation/
Everything Axanar touches dies.
But will it be a lawsuit with a settlement after a year or so, with Top Gun III limited to two 15 minute segments, $50,000 per segment, and no actors from the original two films?
Except lawsuits. They seem to sprout up like weeds.
How does that old saying go?
"Fuckups of a feather make fan films together."
Or something like that.
A few years ago, Jenkins apparently thought to himself... "I must step into that...no, I will make snow angels in it!"
