Guests must be 18 year or older, have a valid photo id for admission in to the studio, and must sign a nondisclosure agreement and likeness rights release. Prelude to axanar was a twoday shoot with actors sitting for the most part in front of a green screen. This 21minute short film, prelude to axanar, premiered saturday, july 26th, 2014, at san diego comic con, and features richard hatch, tony todd, kate vernon. Prelude to axanar 2014 official sites, and other sites with posters, videos, photos and more. Prelude to axanar 2014 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Star trek discovery is set 10 years earlier, so all of these events are relatively close in time. Diana comes to team axanar as an admitted geek girl, with a lifelong love of science fiction, as well as all things girly. The makers of the star trek fan film axanar have been sued by cbs and paramount for allegedly violating. It was designed to bring peaceful resolution to a conflict involving the federation, with garth of izar winning a major victory in the battle of axanar.
This article is about the short film, not the feature length film star trek axanar. Axanar lawsuit was still going strong, mark largent and i decided to create a parody of the whole mess with a short animated spoof called prelude to axdweare we wrote the script together in about five days, and i provided the voices for half of the characters. The axanar peace mission was a diplomatic operation at the planet axanar in the mid23rd century, in which starfleet took part. The shipyards of axanar preparing the ships for war. Star trek axanar controversy by startrek on deviantart. The director of the star trek fanfilm project, prelude to axanar, christian gosset, describes what it was like to work on the project and with the actors many of whom were alumni of the star trek series. Prelude to axanar 2014 faq add to faq coming soon showing all 0 items jump to. Axanar teaser trailer honor through victory youtube.
Prelude to axanar is the award winning short film that is unlike anything you have seen from a star trek fan film. The idea was to followup prelude to axanar up with a featurelength film showing the actual battle, but prelude to axanar proved popular enough to get the attention of cbs and paramount pictures. Prelude to axanar is a 2014 fanmade short film, directed by christian gossett and written by gossett and alec peters. Paramount and cbs sued axanar and all associated with it for an assortment of violations. Heroes, shooting in october 2014, or the axanar feature, shooting. Filmed in hollywood, this short proofofconcept film was made to show what a professional and highly talented cast and crew can deliver. Axanar fan film docked after copyright suit from cbs. Various retired leaders discuss their experiences of the four years war, a war between the federation and the klingons, and the build up to a battle at axanar that caused a major turning point in the war. Prelude to axanar is a short film that will lead into, and act as a primer to, the feature length axanar.
Prelude to axanar 2014 frequently asked questions imdb. The state of axanar at a recent con, owc studios head alec peters stated prelude to axanar proved the hollywood model is broken. The last paragraph of this article belongs in a new article about or at the very least the article should be renamed to st. Dont get me wrong, with proper handling and care, it has potential to be epic but, since alec peters let his ego get out of control, i highly doubt that. This 21minute short film, prelude to axanar, premiered saturday, july 26th, 2014, at san diego comic con, and features richard hatch, tony todd, kate vernon, jg hertzler and gary graham. Defendants funded prelude through the crowdsourcing websites kickstarter and indiegogo, and distributed the short film on youtube to generate interest in, and help raise additional funds for, the production of a featurelength motion picture project called star trek. Figures from both sides discuss how the war began, how the klingons were better prepared for war, how the federation built their starfleet, and how the war was fought from both the federation and. Ive seen prelude to axanar and, as much as i hate to admit it, its actually really good. Unfortunately, even without the new cbs restrictions, i dont think axanar s going to be that great. Prelude to axanar teaser by alec peters axanar production notes, cast while our executive producer and garth of izar himself alec peters is in germany at. The ship under construction at axanar is the uss constitution ncc1700. After prelude got so popular his ego exploded out of control and all the good people left. The uss enterprise of tos is also completed in 2245, according to the original timeline.
Each character will give a different view of the war with the klingons leading up to the final confrontation that will be chronicled in. Please follow all weekend on the axanar youtube channel as indiegogo patches shipped. Star trek,star trek axanar, prelude to axanar, axanar,uss ares,star trek discovery,star trek lawsuit,star trek axanar lawsuit,star trek axanar movie,star trek. The planned featurelength film was to take place 21 years. Prelude to axanar is a 2014 fanmade short film, directed by christian gossett and written by. Alec peters portrayed garth of izar in prelude to axanar. My fan film just beat axanar in the berlin scifi film. Feel free to send us your own wallpaper and we will consider adding it to appropriate category. Axanar has settled its lawsuit with paramount over its.
This is the second of three exclusive teaser trailers for axanar, concentrating on the klingon side of the conflict. Christian gossett, director, prelude to axanar seen here holding his first geekie award for directing the geekiest fan film of 2015. Cbsparamount sues to stop axanar page 1605 the trek bbs. Richard hatch, in character as the klingon warlord kharn the undying. Prelude to axanar is a short film that will lead into, and act. Axanar productions axanar is a web feature that tells. With an underused journalismradiotv degree under her belt, she brings a serious love of words, ideas, and visions to the table plus mad skills with a red editing pen, whenever needed, along with two decades of entrepreneurial experience, during which she coowned. Our story factchecks that and other claims, along with production news for axanar lite. Star trek axanar just released video guardian liberty. Even before prelude to axanar premiered at san diego comic con, the trailer let fans know that this wasnt just another fan film. Directors commentary for prelude to axanar the burnettwork. Chock full of photos and details on the cast and characters, this reads like a making of book with a ton of behind the scenes info and images.
Prelude to axanar is an independent project that discusses the war between the federation and the klingon empire leading up to the battle of axanar. Now that prelude has been released with 90,000 viewings in its first five days, a larger kickstarter campaign will follow to fund the fulllength axanar. Axanar is a prequel to the original star trek televised series from the 1960s starring william shatner and the late leonard nimoy. As it was originally envisioned, axanar was to be a fulllength movie while prelude to axanar is a mockumentary. Star trek axanar prelude to axanar full film official. It had its public debut july 26, 2014 at the san diego comiccon. Prelude to axanar by axanar productions kickstarter. Prelude to axanar and axanar are two very different kinds of films.
Axanar is a crowdfunded fan film set in the star trek universe. French, spanish, german, dutch, czech and portuguese, as well. Star trek popular fan film axanar resumes production. In the settlement, axanar productions and its owner, alec peters, acknowledged that the film and its prequel, prelude to axanar, were were not approved by. Due to the accidental breakage of a camcorder just as this panel was beginning, we had to improvise.
That is why the video quality of the speaker is poor until we were able to get another camera operating from 07. The short is a historical look at the battle of axanar, filmed like a history channel special. All of the above plus the official illustrated script from prelude to axanar in pdf form. Discussion in fan productions started by richard baker, dec 30. The same people had previously made a film called prelude to axanar, but the current film, axanar, is making a lot of money and paramount decided to sue them to stop the project. By alec peters ares studios, axanar news, axanar production notes the final video update for 2019 finds axanar in the middle of shooting. Star trek axanar prelude to axanar full film official video. Prelude to axanar is a short film written and produced by axanar productions and its principal, alec peters, that tells the story of garth of izar during the war between the federation and the klingon empire. This 21minute short film, prelude to axanar, premiered saturday, july 26th, 2014, at san diego comic con, and features richard hatch, tony. Prelude to axanar is a short film that will give viewers a historical look at the events leading up to the battle of axanar, the central event of the film axanar.
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