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+ | ====== Peters Admits Studio 'Not the Best Call' ====== | ||
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+ | **//Peters Tells Comikaze Audience He Wishes He Hadn't Raised So Much Money for// Axanar.** | ||
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+ | Producer [[Alec Peters]] told a Los Angeles Comic Con panel he regretted how much money he raised for //Axanar// and the results of the ensuing mission creep, which included a three-year lease on a warehouse he had built out into a commercial studio. | ||
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+ | Stan Lee's Los Angeles Comic Con/ | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>**FAN FILM** panel at Stan Lee's Los Angeles Comic Con, October 29. <wrap lo>// | ||
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+ | ===== Mission Creep ===== | ||
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+ | "Money doesn' | ||
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+ | Peters, who described himself as "a chronic overachiever," | ||
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+ | //**__« Axanar would be in the can right now and I wouldn’t be getting sued. »__**// — //Axanar producer Alec Peters// | ||
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+ | ==== Aiming Lower ==== | ||
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+ | Peters admitted that if he'd simply focused on a possibly lower-quality production, "// | ||
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+ | ===== Studio 'Not the Best Call' ===== | ||
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+ | He admitted, in retrospect, that he wouldn' | ||
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+ | "I didn't see any reason to build my own sets," he said. "My director [Christian Gossett] pushed us to do that. He felt in order to get this professional look we needed something different" | ||
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+ | But, encouraged by his $1.1 million crowdfunding success, Peters went on to do so, seeing an opportunity for revenue by renting out his own commercial studio when he wasn't shooting //Axanar//. That facility, now called [[Industry Studios]] formally began operations in 2016. | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>**See also**: // | ||
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+ | ===== An Entrepreneur ===== | ||
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+ | Even so, Peters touted the benefits of fan films, which he called a " | ||
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+ | As an entrepreneur, | ||
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+ | ==== Rejecting Elon Musk ==== | ||
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+ | Peters recounted his own entrepreneurial expertise by citing interest in one of Peters' | ||
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+ | ===== Economics of Fan Films ===== | ||
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+ | Peters and his blogger, Lane, both commented on the economic opportunity Hollywood studios were missing by not taking fan productions under their wing. | ||
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+ | Peters bitterly recounted how he had offered, right after he was sued, to give CBS the completed //Axanar// — "for free!" — only to see his offer rejected. | ||
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+ | Lane cited writer Marc Scott Zicree' | ||
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+ | ==== Lucasfilm ==== | ||
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+ | Peters asked the panel audience to applaud Lucasfilm for its official support of fan films. "They get it," he said. "I wish I'd been born a Star Wars fan." | ||
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+ | He neglected to mention, however, that Lucasfilm' | ||
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+ | And while Lucasfilm generally tolerates longer, more ambitious Star Wars fan films, even Lane pointed out that up until Axanar, CBS and Paramount took the same stance. However, It's difficult to believe Lucasfilm, which [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===== Parting Shot ===== | ||
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+ | Just after the panel formally concluded, Peters took the opportunity to lodge a complaint with fellow panelist Allyson Gronowitz, who writes for the genre website, [[http:// | ||
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+ | Peters complained about a " | ||
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+ | "It was so bad," Peters ranted, prompting a pat on the shoulder by Hubbard, his girlfriend, to calm him. "She never contacted us. Everything she wrote she learned on the Internet. No facts." | ||
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+ | The panel discussion came a few days after **AxaMonitor** reported the plaintiffs had [[missing_emails|uncovered]] a trove of Peters' | ||
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+ | A federal magistrate granted that request October 31, and Peters was deposed again on November 2. {{: | ||
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