The argument of the Axanar creators and the fans who funded it-that Paramount’s interpretation of Star Trek is very different from the Star Trek they love, so the films aren’t really in competition-is well-taken, too.
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“Star Trek Beyond” is set to open July 22nd and a new “Star Trek” series is set to debut on television next year.
In a news release CBS/Paramount thanked fans for their support and said the guidelines are meant to “show our appreciation by bringing fan films back to their roots”.
Overwhelmingly, the fan film guidelines seem to be a situation where Paramount and CBS are as James T. Kirk put it once “fixing the barn door after the horse has come home”.
Now, if you’re a Trek fan and want to make your own fan film but you’re not terribly interested in getting sued, then you should probably read CBS and Paramount’s Star Trek fan film rules.
CBS/Paramount has looked the other way for years, allowing fans to create non-profit series based on the “Star Trek” universe that in some cases, feature more elaborate effects and editing than the original series did. “One of the things that is exciting for me is that we are telling a Star Trek story in a modern way”.
The “Axanar” filmmakers announced previously that the movie’s story will focus on a war between humans and Klingons, so it is presumably humanity that the speaker refers to when he shouts, “At last, the time has come to wipe them from the galaxy”.
“Historically, fan fiction has been a driving force in the “Star Trek” community”.
The guidelines also ban using Star Trek talent, past or present, eliminating the cameos frequently used to draw attention to new fan film projects.
The lawsuit was eventually dropped after J.J. Abrams and Justin Lin, the two directors behind the more recent slate of Star Trek films, complained to Paramount about the way the production company was treating fans.
If there’s one person who knows exactly what to say about a new Star Trek series, it’s Bryan Fuller. It is with this perspective in mind that we are introducing a set of guidelines at Star Trek Fan Films.
“The fan production must be family friendly and suitable for public presentation”. Also, the material “must be family friendly” and can not include “profanity, nudity, obscenity, pornography, depictions of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or any harmful or illegal activity”, or basically anything else that might hurt the brand.
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Wow. Okay. So essentially, Star Trek fan films have to be like Disney cartoons? The content of the fan production can not violate any individual’s right of privacy. 8. “I think “Axanar” has become so popular that CBS realizes that we’re just making their brand that much better”.
