CBS Suddenly Wants to Put a Stop toAxanar, the CrowdfundedStar TrekWar Movie

Axanar has appeal a lot of tending since its hugely successfulKickstarterandIndiegogocampaigns upgrade over a million dollars to make a movie setdecades before the events of the original Star Trek series . But after over a twelvemonth of tolerating the moving-picture show ’s universe , CBS and Paramount have cracked down .

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Axanar promised to be a munificent independent production , a movie that attend at the early days of the Federation ’s conflict with the Klingon Empire in the years before the original Star Trek telecasting serial publication and that culminated in a bloody battle at the nominal planet of Axanar . The story was uncovered footing in CBS ’s prescribed Star Trek oeuvre in both movies or live - action mechanism tv set . Meanwhile , CBS not only had a long - stand reputation of hug the Star Trek fan film community and their projects buthad also metwith Axanar executive producer Alec Peters in late months to confirm that , as long as the new film was n’t made for commercial-grade purposes , CBS was fine with it .

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Until now .

The Hollywood Reporterjust revealed that CBS and Paramount register a lawsuit on Christmas Day search an enjoinment against Axanar in an attempt to get the movie scrapped as well as seek indemnification for “ unmediated , contributory and vicarious copyright infringement . ” The thrust of the suit seems to be that because of Axanar ’s vast crowdfunding succeeder , the project has develop beyond the sort of devotee film that CBS would tolerate into something that violates its right of first publication . And presumptively , witha new Star Trek show go in production next twelvemonth , the thought of a wildly democratic buff creation draw attention and possible discombobulation is not something CBS require .

It ’s a shame , but perhaps not a surprising turn of events for Axanar . The bigger it get , the more potential it seemed that CBS would step in — and that 24-hour interval has finally come .

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