Yeah, it was pretty much doomed the moment the lawsuit got filed.
I wonder if anything got filmed other than the Prelude short and the Vulcan scene...
Guys, keep up. It was doomed from the start. It was NEVER going to be finished, regardless of the lawsuit. It was just another scheme of his.
So he keeps the millions, still gets to make his film, but has to change it so it will be different from Star Trek?
But according to his court records, he spent all that money. So will he be asking fans for more money? Will they donate now that this is not the Star Trek film they had hoped for? Will they sue him for the money back since they backed a project that can no longer be made and he blew all the kickstarter money on his own personal living expenses? So many questions left in the air here.
The crook got off way too easy, as usual.
And this is why he believes he is above the law and invincible. We asked why he would fight as hard as he did, and there's your answer... He always walks away a winner and thinks he can beat anything. This just proves that he does.
So his initial November update to his donors stated the following:
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Yet he filed the following statement to the courts:
"Mr. Peters personally profited from Plaintiffs' intellectual property by payinghimself with funds raised from consumers of Plaintiffs' intellectual property and by spending tens of thousands of dollars of those funds on his own personal expenses. Mr. Peters used fan-raised funds to pay for the tires on his Lexus, to service his car, to pay for his gas, each and every week for nearly two years, to pay for his girlfriend's gas for the same time period, to pay for two years of personal phone bills for himself, his girlfriend and Robert Meyer Burnett, to pay for his health insurance, his car insurance, his annual AAA memberships, his TSA airport precheck fee, and his personal travel to conventions, both in the United States and internationally.
Mr. Peters also used these funds to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in restaurant meals. Mr. Peters and his girlfriend were provided with debit cards that they used to pay for these expenses from the Axanar Productions account- which account was populated with funds contributed by Star Trek fans.
Further, Mr. Peters' company, Propworx, is housed in the studio facility that was rented andbuilt out using funds from Star Trek fans. Propworx has not paid any rent to Axanar Productions for its use of this facility.
So at what point do these donors feel duped and get pissed off at lies?
That was the studios' filing, not his.
In the discovery phase of a civil case, parties are generally obligated to produce documents and other evidence that the opposing party asks for. Generally, discovery requests have to be reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence, but documents and things asked for don't have to be admissible themselves.Ok.... but did he tell them that is where the money went to show that there's no money left? Did he admit blowing that money on himself?