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 +<wrap lo>//Producer Alec Peters sits alone in the studio on which he spent hundreds of thousands of donor dollars. He now says building the studio was an error in judgment.// <wrap indent><wrap lo>Image/Axanar Prods.</wrap></wrap></wrap>
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 ====== Peters Admits Studio 'Not the Best Call' ====== ====== Peters Admits Studio 'Not the Best Call' ======
  
 **//Peters Tells Comikaze Audience He Wishes He Hadn't Raised So Much Money for// Axanar.** **//Peters Tells Comikaze Audience He Wishes He Hadn't Raised So Much Money for// Axanar.**
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 //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap> //**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap>
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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. 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.
  
-Stan Lee's Los Angele Comic Con/Comikaze hosted an October 29, 2016, panel on fan films on which Peters appeared alongside his girlfriend, Crysstal Hubbard, star and producer of a Supergirl fan film, and surrogate blogger, Jonathan Lane of the Fan Film Factor blog.+Stan Lee's Los Angeles Comic Con/Comikaze hosted an October 29, 2016, panel on fan films on which Peters appeared alongside his girlfriend, Crysstal Hubbard, star and producer of a Supergirl fan film, and surrogate blogger, Jonathan Lane of the Fan Film Factor blog.
  
 {{youtube>B5ZxhJfJ7gs?large}} {{youtube>B5ZxhJfJ7gs?large}}
-<wrap lo>**FAN FILM** panel at Stan Lee's Los Angeles Comic Con, October 29.</wrap>+<wrap lo>**FAN FILM** panel at Stan Lee's Los Angeles Comic Con, October 29. <wrap lo>//(Video/YouTube)//</wrap></wrap>
  
 ===== Mission Creep ===== ===== Mission Creep =====
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 > At some point it would've been good for us to step back, or have some outside force say, you know, what are your goals and do you really need to do it this way?" > At some point it would've been good for us to step back, or have some outside force say, you know, what are your goals and do you really need to do it this way?"
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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 ==== ==== Aiming Lower ====
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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" — building Axanar its own studio in Los Angeles. "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" — building Axanar its own studio in Los Angeles.
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 +[{{ ::comikaze-audience.jpg?nolink&300|**INTIMATE SETTING** The view of the audience from the panel's point of view at Comikaze's fan film panel featuring Alec Peters and blogger Jonathan Lane.}}]
  
 "Ultimately, that was not the best call," Peter said. "Ultimately, that was not the best call," Peter said.
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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. 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**: //[[studio_move|Alec Peters Strikes Deal with Studio Landlord, Moving Out]]// and //[[luh_studios|Axanar's Abandoned Former Studio Continues to Flail]]//</wrap>
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 ===== An Entrepreneur ===== ===== An Entrepreneur =====
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 As an entrepreneur, Peters said, he realized, "All the innovations are disruptive technologies," citing Uber and cheap high-definition digital cameras. "None of that happens in Hollywood," he said, calling studios' products as "regurgitated bullshit." As an entrepreneur, Peters said, he realized, "All the innovations are disruptive technologies," citing Uber and cheap high-definition digital cameras. "None of that happens in Hollywood," he said, calling studios' products as "regurgitated bullshit."
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 +[{{ :captain-peters-1.jpg?nolink&150|Axanar producer **Alec Peters**.}}]
  
 ==== Rejecting Elon Musk ==== ==== Rejecting Elon Musk ====
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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. 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.
  
-Lane cited writer Marc Scott Zicree's ("World Enough and Time," //Star Trek: New Voyages//) idea that studios should buy the higher quality fan films and air them on streaming services like CBS All Access, charging $2.99 an episode and keeping most of the revenue.+<WRAP right round important 50%> 
 +<wrap lo><wrap em>DISCLOSURE</wrap> AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza was a co-executive producer and script supervisor for "World Enough and Time," and a writer-producer for //Star Trek: New Voyages//.</wrap> 
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 +Lane cited writer Marc Scott Zicree's ("World Enough and Time," //Star Trek: New Voyages//, 2007) idea that studios should buy the higher quality fan films and air them on streaming services like CBS All Access, charging $2.99 an episode and keeping most of the revenue.
  
 ==== Lucasfilm ==== ==== 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://axamonitor.com/doku.php?id=trek_wars_guidelines#non-commercial_status|prohibits crowdfunding]], would ever allow any project to raise more than $1 million as Axanar did. 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://axamonitor.com/doku.php?id=trek_wars_guidelines#non-commercial_status|prohibits crowdfunding]], would ever allow any project to raise more than $1 million as Axanar did.
  
- +[{{ ::allyson-gronowitz.jpg?nolink&150|Alec Peters confronted pop culture writer **Allyson Gronowitz** over a "hatchet job" of Axanar by a website she writes for, The Mary Sue.}}]
-[{{ ::allyson-gronowitz.jpg?nolink&150|Alec Peters confronted pop culture writer **Allyson Gronowitz** over a "hatchet job" of Axanar by the website, The Mary Sue.}}]+
  
 ===== Parting Shot ===== ===== Parting Shot =====
  
-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, The Mary Sue.+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://www.themarysue.com/star-trek-fan-film-guidelines/|The Mary Sue]].
  
-Peters complained about a "hatchet job" on Axanar done by writer Teresa Jusino back in June, the article, "CBS/Paramount Issue Guidelines for Star Trek Fan Films Because Axanar Ruined It for Everyone."(([[http://www.themarysue.com/star-trek-fan-film-guidelines/|"CBS/Paramount Issue Guidelines for Star Trek Fan Films Because Axanar Ruined It for Everyone"]], 6/24/16.))+Peters complained about a "[[http://www.themarysue.com/star-trek-fan-film-guidelines/|hatchet job]]" on Axanar done by writer Teresa Jusino back in June, the article, "CBS/Paramount Issue Guidelines for Star Trek Fan Films Because Axanar Ruined It for Everyone."(([[http://www.themarysue.com/star-trek-fan-film-guidelines/|"CBS/Paramount Issue Guidelines for Star Trek Fan Films Because Axanar Ruined It for Everyone"]], 6/24/16.))
  
 "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." "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."