CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens

[137th Gebirg]

Prelude using a "History Channel" post-war-style interview paradigm was a new concept at the time (based on my recollection anyway). In that way, it was groundbreaking. Outstanding set and costume design, top-notch visual effects (again, at the time) and numerous veteran genre actors lent mass-quantities of credibility to the project.

In the end, though, Icarus flew too high and got burned, along with everyone else around him, forever tainting the project - and really all fan film projects in the wake of its destruction.

It literally is a fucking Greek Tragedy.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I was going to say it was nice to see an article about Axanar that wasn't still painting Peters as the great hope single-handedly standing athwart the evil Kurtzman in the name of True Trek, but then I got to the second sentence.

That's as far as I got as well.

 

[Mytran]

Oh man, I had a comparison of that too but it's on Imgur and thus I cannot access it anymore. They did their own Vengeance crash with the D7, the Enterprise-rising-from-Jupiter shot with the Ares and a nebula and so on and so on.

FANTASTIC advertising for Tobias Richter, showing he could do approximations of (then recent) blockbuster movie effects.

If you sign into Imgur using the browser OPERA (which has a built in VPN) then you can view your gallery's content and download anything you no longer have saved.

 

[KennyB]

Ohhhhhhhh now there is an Axanar Documentary.........comes with an AXANAR VETERAN PATCH!.............The grift never sleeps.......
The Untold Story Behind the Star Trek Film That Shook Hollywood, Now a Feature-Length Documentary
The Battle for Axanar is a professionally produced documentary from Academy Award-winner John Ottman and veteran producer Seth Sherman. It chronicles the 16-year saga of how a fan-made Star Trek project became too good for the studios to ignore, sparking one of the most famous entertainment lawsuits in history.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Wha... Is that for real?

 

[Turtletrekker]

"The Star Trek film that shook Hollywood".

 

[CorporalCaptain]

First of all, it's not a Star Trek film. It's a Star Trek fan film.

Secondly, it did not.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The Untold Story...

Hardly "untold". We have heard it all, surely. And don't call me Shirley.

 

[Firebird]

Maybe, since Prelude was a higher quality than a usual fan film?

I recall back in the New Voyages days, someone asking one of the actors if they thought appearing in a fan film would harm their chances of getting real work and their reply was to the effect of nobody important sees them so it doesn't matter.

Doug Drexler has a chapter in his new autobiography where he was apparently close to getting shitcanned from Enterprise because of his work on New Voyages, but narrowly averted it because the lawyers didn’t care.

 

[BillJ]

I can't believe this grift is still going.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's the grift that keeps on grifting.

Can't wait to see the American Mystery School messaging. I wonder how many Axanar fans will become members?

 

[KennyB]

Wha... Is that for real?

You KNOW the answer........lol

Did they actual 2 15 minute shorts ever actually get released? I kinda remember 1......then Jonathan made something........idk.......I stopped keeping up

 

[trynda1701]

Did they actual 2 15 minute shorts ever actually get released? I kinda remember 1......then Jonathan made something........idk.......I stopped keeping up

Surprised this wasn't posted here yet....

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Per this trailer, next part is due out 28th of July.

As I said earlier, same format as Prelude, talking heads interspersed with ships shots and 'pew, pew, pew' ship shots. LOTS of ships (at least as many as in DS9 Dominion battles)!