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- | Under pressure from a copyright infringement lawsuit, production on the Star Trek film, // | + | <WRAP right round box 60%> |
+ | **UPDATED 2/20/16** with comments from Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden. | ||
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+ | Under pressure from a [[copyright infringement]] [[lawsuit]], production on the Star Trek film, // | ||
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+ | In a Facebook post on Friday, director [[imdb> | ||
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+ | > No one has given up. But we've agreed to halt all production on the film until a resolution to the suit is reached.((A screenshot of Burnett' | ||
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+ | Burnett' | ||
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+ | Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden did not specifically confirm Burnett' | ||
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+ | > When production will resume is not certain, a lot of things ride on the judge' | ||
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+ | He pointed out that preproduction has never stopped, especially in light of the lawsuit: | ||
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+ | > While production work has stopped, pre-production work has not. For the most part, this consists of contingency planning and working through various production details that need to be re-examined because of delays, new directions with the script/ | ||
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+ | ===== Impact on Injunction ===== | ||
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+ | For their part, plaintiffs [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]] had already asked the court for an [[summary_of_the_lawsuit# | ||
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+ | It's not clear, however, how far a voluntary "halt [on] all production on the film" might extend. For example: | ||
+ | * Would it literally apply to just shooting? | ||
+ | * How much preproduction can still go on? | ||
+ | * Would [[Axanar Productions]] still be able to spend donors' | ||
+ | * Continuing to build out the studio? | ||
+ | * Renting out the studio to other productions while their own is on hold in order to defray ongoing costs, like the building' | ||
+ | * Proceeding with its announced merchandising plans creating, | ||
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+ | Bowden said the production is focused finding "a way to work things out with Paramount and CBS. "Those discussions can't start in earnest until both parties have presented their initial arguments to the judge," | ||
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+ | ===== Facebook Fans Question Production ===== | ||
- | In a Facebook | + | Burnett' |
- | > No one has given up. But we've agreed to halt all production | + | In another post on the same thread, |
- | Burnett' | + | > The sad part is, //Axanar// does not currently exist. For now, it's just an idea. I think <wrap hi>a good idea, but an idea which might never be realized,</ |
- | In exchange for a [[lawsuit# | + | While Burnett himself is not named in the suit, as director of the feature film he is widely believed to be one of the unnamed '[[does|John Doe]]' defendants described in CBS/ |
- | While Burnett himself is not named in the suit, as director of the feature film he is widely believed to be one of the unnamed '[[does|John Doe]]' defendants described CBS/Paramount' | + | --- By //[[carlos@blueserif.com|Carlos Pedraza]] 2016/02/20// |
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