[32] On January 20, 2017, the parties announced that the lawsuit had been settled, with Peters and Axanar Productions promising to make "substantial changes" to Axanar and agreeing to abide by Paramount's and CBS' "Guidelines for Fan Films. Axanar Productions relies on outside contractors to provide the visual effects (VFX) for AXANAR. Why, why, why, why, why are they doing this?! The guidelines were written to slow down the REST of the fan productions like Renegades and STC. The film is presented as one episode of a Federation documentary pertaining to a "Four Years War" (a supplement of FASA's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game in the 1980s) with the Klingon Empire, narrated by fictional noted historian John Gill (who appeared in "Patterns of Force") and featuring interviews of participants on both sides. Action Adventure Sci-Fi Garth, the legendary Starfleet captain, and his crew during the Four Years War with the Klingon Empire. Become a patron And 4K sounds awesome! Please watch to get your latest Axanar Update! Space is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Article by Jonathan Lane. (Courtesy of Axanar Productions) Paramount and CBS are suing the creators of a Star Trek fan film, Axanar . Just weeks after a US District Court Judge rejected the claims of fair use from the producers of the Star Trek fan film Axanar, Paramount and Axanar Productions have announced . The first Axanar release was fantastic! December 13, 2022 0 Production Update - Axanar Shoots in January! This website, the promotion thereof and/or any exhibition of material created by the operators of this website are not endorsed or sponsored by or affiliated with CBS/Paramount Pictures or the STAR TREK franchise. Release Dates Report Date / Submit Product All All USA UK Report Date / Submit Product Internet 2015Expected TrackingTrack1213 Internet 2015Expected TrackingTrack1213 TRACK12 Buy Now Star Trek: Axanar Movie Internet To keep fans' interest in Axanar alive, Peters has claimed the Star Trek alumni actors who appeared in Prelude would return, stating as recently as June 25 that actors Gary Graham and J.G. 5 May 1942 - Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat)'s birthday. Try not to take this too personally, with your role comes a hell of a lot of responsibility and we all learn from our mistakes. Axanar would either lose the lawsuit (as CBS intended) and be gone forever, win the lawsuit (NOT what CBS wanted) and the guidelines would be moot, or the case would settle and Axanar be given a specific set of constraints and permission separate from the guidelineswhich is what ultimately happened. After all, compliments, I first discoveredSTAR REKTback in 2021 when someone posted to Facebook a link to aStar, Back in 1980, Paramount Pictures released a farcical feature film calledAirplane! 2014 March 31: 'Prelude to Axanar' Kickstarter Campaign he said in an email to Space.com. Original article onSpace.com. Prelude to Axanar and Axanar are two very different kinds of films. Bummer about the reshoots hopefully the final list of scenes to be reshot will be short. This allows us to shoot wider shots, but push in as we did in Prelude to Axanar. After all, compliments, I first discoveredSTAR REKTback in 2021 when someone posted to Facebook a link to aStar, Back in 1980, Paramount Pictures released a farcical feature film calledAirplane! Im saddened to see that the Jewish Space Laser Corps did not meet its stretch goal Alec, but Im excited to see what the results from the Axanar shoots. Here are the highlights: Daniel, we are still working on a Jewish Space Laser pilot! We are planning a 3 day shoot in Los Angeles and a final one day shoot in Atlanta this year, and then we are off to post-production! "Long have we watched the scourge of humanity spreading through space, daring to encroach upon our birthright," yells the voice in the trailer (most likely actor Richard Hatch, who has been cast as Klingon Supreme Commander Kharn). The Axanar Problem. Which, considering Alec Peters history of volunteering for CBS on the CBS Star Trek Archive, and being a licensee at one point, is disappointing. The suit alleges that the production violates several "Star Trek" copyrights, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gary traveled from California to Georgia to appear at AXACON in 2018, saying positive things about Alec and the original production in interviews like this one (skip to 14:40). We are excited to start finishing Axanar! Called "Honor Through Victory," the trailer shows Klingon ships flying through a planetary ring system and features an intense voice-over that sounds like a prebattle pep talk. So in March of 2014 Alec raised $101,000 on Kickstarter, assembled a team of Hollywood professionals, hired well known Star Trek actors, and produced Prelude to Axanar, a short film that went on to win 46 film festival awards world-wide. Im sorry this has happened. "[citation needed] To circumvent these limitations Peters employed both a Kickstarter and a fan funding campaign which eventually exceeded his initial funding goal of $10,000 by raising $101,000.[4][8][9]. Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday. Garth charted more planets than any other captain and was the hero of the Battle of Axanar. There was never a cease and desist letter, or any other notice delivered to Axanar Productions or Alec Peters in advance of the lawsuit being filed. A statement from Axanar added that further details would be released privately to cast, crew and donors of the production. This website, the promotion thereof and/or any exhibition of material created by the operators of this website are not endorsed or sponsored by or affiliated with CBS/Paramount Pictures or the STAR TREK franchise. This includes 3 Blu-ray disks: "Prelude to Axanar", "Axanar", and a special features disk with 3 hours of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews. We will do reshoots in Nov./Dec. #Axanar #StarTrek #StarTrekFanFilmsAll of this work was completed between August through December of 2015 by myself, Robert Meyer Burnett, and Tobias Richter. i.e., not part of the established in-universe history of Star Trek, AxaMonitor.com uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, A still image from a new teaser trailer for the fan-made "Star Trek" film "Axanar." PRELUDE TO AXANAR was released on YouTube a matter of months after it was funded. Every once in a while, fandom is beset upon by a series of somewhat aggressive arguments about the function of accuracy in film/tv adaptations. "Axanar" is a web feature that is the story of Garth of Izar and the Battle of Axanar, one of the pivotal events in the history. Van Citters appeared on the hour-long program, Engage: The Official Star Trek Podcast, which was released June 28, to explain the studios' intent behind the guidelines, why they're guidelines instead of rules and to clarify some of the guidelines' specific restrictions regarding run-times, audio dramas, props and costumes. It is like your computer. 70. After this is accomplished, we will close down Axanar Productions, which was the production company set up to make Axanar. Renegades, however, had recently announced they were planning to do 12 half-hour Star Trek webisodes per year (each year would be a season, they said), and CBS just couldnt allow thatespecially with Tim Russ playing Tuvok and other Star Trek alumni scheduled to reprise their roles (like Walter Koenig as Chekov and Nichelle Nichols as Uhura, Robert Beltran as Chakotay, Aron Eisenberg as Nog, Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko, Hannah Hatae as Molly OBrien, Richard Herd as Admiral Paris, Robert Picardo as Lewis Zimmermanand a few more Im forgetting). Axanar Update - March 2021 33,309 views Mar 1, 2021 1.6K Dislike Share Save Axanar 109K subscribers Get the latest on Axanar by signing up for the Axanar Newsletter!. (But no nudity!) (exclamation point included). Axanar Productions made a settlement offer to Paramount and CBS within 48 hours of the lawsuit being delivered to the productions offices, but it was rejected without a counter proposal. [28], On June 23, 2016, Paramount and CBS released new fan film guidelines, which Axanar staff described as "disheartening" and "draconian. No. Heres how it works. "Axanar," which was slated to be. The second of the three Axanar shoots is set for Atlanta in January! The episode was called "Errand of Mercy" (which first aired in March 1967, during the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union). Both productions were funded on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, raising more than. After the fan-made production raised $600,000 on Kickstarter and was planned to be released in 2016, production was halted after CBS and Paramount Pictures filed suit in California in December 2015. 5 May 1999 - Original airing of DS9 . (I knew, Did you ever wonder why we use the term PAYING a compliment? He declined to answer legal questions about the production but said he hopes the story can move forward soon. Axanar has raised about $104,000 since the Indiegogo effort changed to an ongoing campaign on August 11, 2015. According to the Axanar blog, a trial date is set for Jan. 31, 2017. Many thought. Steve Inhat portrayed Garth of Izar in the TOS episode Whom Gods Destroy. in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, a Bachelor of Journalism from Canada's Carleton University and (soon) a Bachelor of History from Athabasca University. They released all the songs In an album which number one on iTunes in the pop category and won a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album before they even performed it live. Seems a failing on your part with the loss of crucial elements. In addition, due to the now-fired film making team of Paul Jenkins and Scott Conley, footage from three different characters was lost and neither the Executive Producer nor Line Producer were informed on set, when we could have reshot the scenes. Gods speed on your labors. (exclamation point included). 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