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<fs smaller>**AXANAR UPDATE** Producer Alec Peters updates plans for producing Axanar Lite.</fs> <fs x-small>//Image/Axanar YouTube channel//</fs>

<fs x-small>MAY 8, 2019<wrap indent> | </wrap><wrap indent> 3 MIN READ</wrap></fs>

====== New Timeline for Axanar Lite Premiere: Comic-Con 2020 ======

**//A year after failing to deliver a Comic-Con 2019 premiere, Axanar mostly unprepared, still without money// **

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**Comic-Con 2020 is the new premiere** date for [[Axanar Lite]], the two short films producer [[Alec Peters]] is allowed to make under terms of the settlement of the [[axanar_settles|lawsuit]] against him by CBS/Paramount.

<WRAP center 90%> <fs smaller>**//See also: [[august_2018_update|Axanar Aims for Winter Shoot, Comic-Con 2019 Premiere]]//** </fs> </WRAP>

===== October Production Start =====

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Peters told the 48 viewers who tuned into Monday night’s //[[https://youtu.be/VOTe1Bv1Ayw|Axanar: Confidential]]// that he planned to start shooting in October 2019.


==== Four Shoots ====

Peters said he now expects the production to shoot in four phases and places:
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   * **Atlanta** for as many as two days in October for scenes involving Peters, veteran Trek actor J.G. Hertzler and other cast who don't require alien makeup.
   * **Los Angeles** (no date announced) for as many as three days to shoot cast members playing aliens.
   * **An unnamed location** serving as Starfleet Headquarters, date unknown. These larger crowd scenes will accommodate people whose donations qualified them to appear in the film.
   * **"Other sets"** Peters didn't name, though he said some footage to be shot there was for Axanar, other footage for unnamed other projects.
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=== Audio Drama ===

Also planned during the //Atlanta// shoot: recording an audio version of the [[script_release|script]] for the feature film, forestalled by the CBS/Paramount lawsuit.

===== Mission Creep? =====

What was once slated to be two, 15-minute films, relatively easy to shoot, on the order of //[[Prelude to Axanar]]//'s two-day shoot, is evolving into a more sprawling, ambitious affair, comprising production across the country in multiple locations.

==== Unprepared ====

Despite the target date for beginning to produce Axanar Lite in October, none of the other three shoots has yet been scheduled. The script continues to undergo revision by writer-director [[jenkins_appearance|Paul Jenkins]], making it difficult to create a budget.

Moreover, what Peters is most lacking is money, and his [[ares_digital_late|Ares Digital 3.0]] fundraising platform suffered from continued delays. He has yet to raise what he estimates will be a $200,000 budget.
  
===== Premiere =====

Peters hopes to rent the same off-site theater during San Diego Comic-Con in 2020 for premiere of the film. Of course, he confidently [[:august_2018_update|predicted in 2018]] that Axanar Lite would premiere at Comic-Con 2019.

**Star Trek Las Vegas**.  Finally, he says 2020 attendees at STLV will get to see the films, too. Off-site, of course, since //Axanar// is likely not welcome at the official convention held by those who sued him for [[copyright_infringement|copyright infringement]]. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}

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