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Yeah, sure, whatever, Paramount and CBS are well within their rights here and all that: https://t.co/Sq2GpFwdxv but still... fuck 'em both.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 9, 2016Yes, I backed Axanar on Kickstarter. No, I'm not expecting to get my money back if it turns out Axanar has to stop production entirely.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 9, 2016It'd be nice, sure, but I'm not expecting it.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 9, 2016In any case, I suppose that's what I get for even briefly hoping that a fan-made thing wouldn't get shut down by assholes over copyright.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 9, 2016I should have expected this would happen, honestly. Especially given that they were asking for money for it in the first place. That should have been a red flag to begin with, I suppose. *shrug*
Why they didn't try to get the proper licensing and shit to start with, I don't know, but I guess they just figured this was one of those "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" sort of things? Of course, how they could have expected to not get hit with a lawsuit like this, I don't know either.
Oh well, lesson learned: don't pay money for fan-made projects. At worst, I'm out $25 for that particular lesson. At middling, I'll get my money back if the film can't be made (though, as I said above, I don't expect that will be the case). At best, they'll work something out with CBS/Paramount and the film will continue to be made.
Here is the official statement from the creator of Axanar.
(Was it so wrong to hope for something that was clearly going to be better and truer to the source material than the shit that the official owners are crapping out these days?)
(EDIT) And now I wish I'd never given that shitty Axanar project my money in the first place, because the people who run the whole thing are shitty. (/EDIT)
