While we wait for my interview with Alec Peters for be reviewed and approved by the AXANAR legal team (yes, they’re taking the confidentiality aspects of the settlement agreement quite seriously…as they should), there was a posting made yesterday morning addressing some of the questions many Axanar fans (and detractors) have been asking.
ALEC PETERS answered four frequently-asked questions and also provided a link to a special blog about the Axanar financials (coming really soon…right, Alec???).
Here is yesterday’s post in its entirety…
Questions will keep popping up in regards to the settlement, and so we want to make sure you all get the answers to those questions. Here are a few I have seen:
Q: Since the Guidelines do not allow DVDs/Blu-Rays to be distributed, what happens to the ones promised as perks in the Kickstarter and Indiegogo?
A: Donors will get the DVD/Blu-rays as promised! All perks are allowed to be delivered after we complete making Axanar in the revised format.
Q: The Kickstarter and Indiegogo said you would deliver a 90 minute movie, but now you can only make 30 minutes of Star Trek Fan Film. What can the donors expect here?
A: Oh there will definitely be 90 minutes of content that we know fans of Axanar will love. While adhering to the settlement agreement, we will also make sure we give Axanar fans what will make them happy and be as close as possible to what we said we would deliver.
Q: What will happen to the Vulcan Scene?
A: The Vulcan Scene will remain publicly available on YouTube, as well as being on the Axanar DVD/Blu-Ray.
Q: What will happen to the Studio?
A: The Studio was built out specifically to allow us to make Axanar. When we were served a lawsuit 30 days before the beginning of principal photography, we decided to finish the studio in order to be able to rent it out in order to pay the rent. We are now close to being able to rent the studio out. However, that will only allow us to fulfill the terms of the lease through the end of the year. If we are successful, and we can make money off of the studio, then we will use that money to help fund the obligations of Axanar.
Finally, if you haven’t read it yet, please read this…
Financials: http://www.axanarproductions.com/axanar-finances-the-truth-of-the-matter/
Thanks for your support!
Alec
“When we were served a lawsuit 30 days before the beginning of principal photography, we decided to finish the studio in order to be able to rent it out in order to pay the rent. We are now close to being able to rent the studio out.”
Somewhere between 1.4 & 1.9 million dollars gone and the studio is still not ready to rent? Why? Are donors going to be able to see where that money went? You promised financials, but I haven’t seen them yet…
The studio is ready to rent; Alec just means that negotiations are close. The problem in Hollywood is that things move at a snail’s pace for months or even years until suddenly they don’t and then everything needs to be done yesterday.
Financials are still waiting for the reviewers to finish their reports. These folks are taking their jobs very seriously…despite certain people claiming the reviewers will simply rubber stamp everything. Apparently…not so much.
So, does this mean that if I were to donate a little something, as a donor, I would get the full 90 minute film on DVD, or am I reaching here?
They’re not allowed to make a 90-minute Star Trek fan film regardless of the distribution medium. Sorry, Amil.
Yeah, Axanar already put that nail in the coffin for me :/ Thanks all the same though, and welcome back… P 🙂
“If we are successful, and we can make money off of the studio”.
Well, it’s nice that Alec has been provided with the means to build a business after Axanar…
Settlement or not, I think we can see that Mr. Peters has personally come out of this with a nice little bonus for future business activities and income streams (and forgive me if I am sceptical that the studio will cease to be used once Axanar is finished).
One thing is beyond dispute, and that is that Alec has successfully used the Trek brand name to build himself a backdoor business platform, and he likely wouldn’t have been able to do so but for the use of the brand name and the fan loyalty it brought. Whether that was his intention or not I’ll never know, but it is what it is nonetheless.
First off Jonathan keep up the good work, been reading this for a while now.
Feel like the detractors are not going to be happy about this. I mean Alex trying to fulfil the requirements of the kickstarter, good on him I say. But watch them try and spin this into some negative light again as they have everything else.
Yep, that engine was running from the moment the settlement was first announced.