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

Do you enjoy pie?

  • Yes, sweet, please

    Votes: 84 41.2%
  • Yes, savory, please

    Votes: 43 21.1%
  • Yes, any kind

    Votes: 84 41.2%
  • No, I'm a heathen

    Votes: 38 18.6%

  • Total voters
    204
OK, someone actually was paying attention at Paramount.

It's nice to imagine the lawyers calling the agents of Faran Tahir, Tony Amendola, and Pat Tallman (if she still has one) to find out the terms under which those actors agreed to participate. (IANAL and don't know if this is something they'd actually do, but it seems like a good idea.) If this actually goes back to arbitration it may come up then, if the violation of the professional actors clause was one of the reasons CBS/Paramount decided to act.

It'll also be interesting to see if any of those three make any public statements, or just pretend none of this ever happened.
 
I would guess the professional actors filmed their parts over a decade ago with how long this has dragged on. With Trek being in the dry spell it had been back then they probably just thought appearing was a gift to the fans more than anything else. Neither they nor their agents could have predicted the epic shit show the project became.
 
I would guess the professional actors filmed their parts over a decade ago with how long this has dragged on. With Trek being in the dry spell it had been back then they probably just thought appearing was a gift to the fans more than anything else. Neither they nor their agents could have predicted the epic shit show the project became.
I believe this thing has been shot twice, once by Paul Jenkins and now by whoever they got as director #4. God knows what mix of footage they used.
 
5.5 The Permitted Axanar Segments may use the services of Robert Meyer Burnett, Gary Graham, Kate Vernon, Richard Hatch and J.G. Hertzler. Defendants will not use the services of any other actors that have previously worked on any authorized Star Trek production.

From the settlement docs. Don't see Patricia Tallman, Farin Tahir, or Tony Amendola in this list. A clear breach. Not much defense to this one. Peters was just testing the limits and the response was pretty much immediate.
 
From the settlement docs. Don't see Patricia Tallman, Farin Tahir, or Tony Amendola in this list. A clear breach. Not much defense to this one. Peters was just testing the limits and the response was pretty much immediate.

Apparently he’s gunning for arbitration. Don’t know what chances he thinks he actually has.

Was the actual "fanfilm" any good?

No.
 
Acting in fanfilms is usually the weak link, so I can forgive that. There's no excuse for the banal script full of clichés and starship masturbation.
 
I do wonder what the commentators mean when they say Axanar is what Trek should be. Like, do they want documentary-style storytelling? More than likely they're just happy to see ships and costumes from their childhood, with little thought to the actual story being told by Peters.
 
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