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 ===== Hunt's Critique of Peters ===== ===== Hunt's Critique of Peters =====
  
-Hunt's departure caps a troubled position he held in the Axanar project. In his deposition durning Axanar's copyright infringement [[lawsuit]], Hunt admitted that Peters didn’t really understand proper script development or what a film producer was actually supposed to do.+Hunt's departure caps a troubled position he held in the Axanar project. In his deposition during Axanar's copyright infringement [[lawsuit]], Hunt admitted that Peters didn’t really know what he was doing:
  
 > Everybody on the production who was creative was falling into those traditional film roles, and [Peters] wasn’t familiar with how that process worked. … It was just – <wrap hi>Alec didn’t really know what a film producer</wrap> – he had an idea what a film producer did, but it wasn’t an experienced idea of what a film producer did. So it caused some conflict all throughout the project.((Transcript, Confidential Videotaped Deposition of Bill Hunt (10/25/16), Docket 181.1, p. 87, 1/6/17.)) > Everybody on the production who was creative was falling into those traditional film roles, and [Peters] wasn’t familiar with how that process worked. … It was just – <wrap hi>Alec didn’t really know what a film producer</wrap> – he had an idea what a film producer did, but it wasn’t an experienced idea of what a film producer did. So it caused some conflict all throughout the project.((Transcript, Confidential Videotaped Deposition of Bill Hunt (10/25/16), Docket 181.1, p. 87, 1/6/17.))
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 ==== Fraught with Conflict ==== ==== Fraught with Conflict ====
  
-In his deposition, Hunt described a script development process fraught with conflict between Peters and Burnett, with Hunt caught in the middle. Hunt said:+In his deposition, Hunt described a script development process fraught with conflict between Peters and Burnett, with Hunt often caught in the middle. Hunt said:
  
 > So we were talking to [Peters] about, “Listen, this is how the process works. The script isn’t ready.” Mostly, I think it was Rob and Alec having these conversations, but to the extent that I was kind of in the middle between the two of them, talking them all off —<wrap hi> talking them down off a ledge a lot of times</wrap>. > So we were talking to [Peters] about, “Listen, this is how the process works. The script isn’t ready.” Mostly, I think it was Rob and Alec having these conversations, but to the extent that I was kind of in the middle between the two of them, talking them all off —<wrap hi> talking them down off a ledge a lot of times</wrap>.
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 ==== Reason for Resignation ==== ==== Reason for Resignation ====
  
-Hunt said his work was confined to revising the original //Axanar// feature script. His resignation statement discussed no involvement in the 30-minute script, only in preparing the original feature-length screenplay as one of Axanar's promised — and yet undelivered — [[perks]].+Hunt said his work was confined to revising the original //Axanar// feature script. His resignation statement discussed no involvement in the 30-minute script, only in preparing the original feature-length screenplay as one of Axanar's promised — and still undelivered — [[perks]].
  
 > The result was a finished [feature] script I’m very proud of and that we all hoped to bring to the screen for the donors and fans. However, when it became clear that this would not happen, and that the project was moving in a different direction, I ultimately decided that there was little more for me to contribute.(([[face>billhuntbits/posts/10156600756294573|Bill Hunt post on Facebook]], 11/3/17.)) > The result was a finished [feature] script I’m very proud of and that we all hoped to bring to the screen for the donors and fans. However, when it became clear that this would not happen, and that the project was moving in a different direction, I ultimately decided that there was little more for me to contribute.(([[face>billhuntbits/posts/10156600756294573|Bill Hunt post on Facebook]], 11/3/17.))
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 ==== No Word ==== ==== No Word ====
  
-Meanwhile, that was news Peters did not see fit to share. He chose instead to create the impression Hunt was still on board.+Meanwhile, that was news Peters did not see fit to share for months. He chose instead to create the impression Hunt was still on board.
  
 === 'Not Important' === === 'Not Important' ===
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 Hunt, however, chafed under Peters' attempt to minimize the resignation: Hunt, however, chafed under Peters' attempt to minimize the resignation:
  
-> I would take a bit of issue on the matter of importance. On a traditional professional production, writers "come and go" as part of a work for hire situation. That was not the case here, which means I retain a portion of ownership of the drafts I produced.(([[face>https://www.facebook.com/Axanarfilm/posts/1458743747573477?comment_id=1458993207548531&reply_comment_id=1459884657459386&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Bill Hunt comment on post in Axanar Facebook group,]] 11/4/17.))+> I would take a bit of issue on the matter of importance. On a traditional professional production, writers "come and go" as part of a work for hire situation. That was not the case here, which means I retain a portion of ownership of the drafts I produced.(([[face>Axanarfilm/posts/1458743747573477?comment_id=1458993207548531&reply_comment_id=1459884657459386&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Bill Hunt comment on post in Axanar Facebook group,]] 11/4/17.))
  
 === 'Looks Really Bad' === === 'Looks Really Bad' ===
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-**Keywords** {{tag>cast crew}}+**Keywords** {{tag>cast crew screenplay fact_check}}