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Abrams Says Paramount Will Drop Star Trek/Axenar Lawsuit (gizmodo.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the live-long-and-prosper dept.

An anonymous reader writes:At a fan event Friday for the upcoming Star Trek movie, producer J. J. Abrams said Paramount Pictures' lawsuit against Axanar Productions was "going away." Director Justin Lin had been outraged by the lawsuit against the crowdfunded fan Star Trek film, and when he'd started discussing the situation with Abrams, the two "realized this was not an appropriate way to deal with the fans. The fans should be celebrating this thing. Fans of Star Trek are part of this world. So he went to the studio and pushed them to stop this lawsuit and now, within the next few weeks, it will be announced this is going away, and that fans would be able to continue working on their project."
In a statement, Axanar said they still "want to make sure we go through all the proper steps to make sure all matters are settled with CBS and Paramount..." adding "There is still a lot of work to do, but receiving this kind of public support helps immensely."

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  1. Re:Sanity reigns??? by irving47 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's wait and see.... I am slightly optimistic and a tiny bit relieved... Unfortunately, even if it's true, it doesn't mean the "full" version is going to get made.

    But we're talking about companies that allowed film rights to go to one, and tv rights to another.... For the same franchise that had been under the same roof for 30+ years.... Sanity is not the first word I'd use for either of them.

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  2. Of course Paramount and CBS are nervous by davmoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can understand why Paramount and CBS are nervous about Axanar. Having seen the trailers for "Star Trek: Beyond" and the short "Prelude To Axanar", I think that Axanar is going to be a hell of a lot better than Beyond. And Axanar looks like Trek. Beyond looks more like "Star Trek: Fast and Furious In Spaaaaace!!!!"

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    1. Re:Of course Paramount and CBS are nervous by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Kirk makes out with a chick who looks like a zebra, ho hum.

      Trek used to be a show about ethics and the prime directive where they'd solve a mystery of the week, overcome a paradox of time travel or Wesley would be sentenced to death.

      Now it seems all about the explosions and space warfare.

  3. And that folks, is why there was a lawsuit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You just nailed the entire reason for the lawsuit.

    Everyone knows the property is being trashed.

    No Trek fans are genuinely excited about Beyond. It looks like gatbage.

    And here comes a fan film that cost next to nothing and it's actually awesome. It's true Star Trek to its core. No cheesy stunts. No action heroes. No "genius" twenty-somethings who look like models. No stupid banter in the face of imminent death.

    Just narrative and character.

    Paramount should be scared. They hired a formulaic hack to repackage Star Trek for the action-movie crowd and it's wearing thin on the fans.

    1. Re:And that folks, is why there was a lawsuit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No Trek fans are genuinely excited about Beyond. It looks like gatbage.

      Well, guess what: they don't care about Trek fans. It's a tiny market that doesn't matter to them, they want the rest of the audience. They're willing to turn Star Trek into an action series, as long as regular people not into Star Trek go and see their movie. The Trekkie market is minuscule in comparison to what a multi-hundred million dollar movie needs to make a profit.