Star Trek has seen many, many high quality 'fan films' in recent years; From 'Of Gods and Men' to 'Star Trek: Phase II' to 'Star Trek: Renegades', as well as many other smaller productions, the franchise has inspired several former actors from the official TV series to produce their own stories within the setting. While the abovementioned production names are of fairly good quality and clearly a labor of love for the teams making them, the trend has largely been for many of these 'fan films' to be low-budget productions with only limited studio support.
Star Trek: Axanar is set to blow this trend out of the water. With full special effects support from veteran Scifi company 'The Light Works', makeup and costume provided by Academy Award winner Kevin Haney and 'Make Up Effects Lab', and an industry veteran director (Robert Burnett) Axanar is geared up to be one of the biggest and best-produced pieces of Trek content fans will have gotten in a long time.
Many of the cast members will be familiar to long time Star Trek fans, with at least a couple faces from the also popular science fiction franchise 'Battlestar Galactica' present as well. In no specific order, the starring cast listed on their Kickstarter page is:
RICHARD HATCH AS-----------TONY TODD AS-----------------------KATE VERNON AS---------------GARY GRAHAM AS-------------JG HERZLER AS
COMMANDER------------------------ADMIRAL---------------------------CAPTAIN-----------------------------AMBASSADOR---------------------CAPTAIN
KHARN---------------------------------RAMIREZ----------------------------SONYA ALEXANDER-------------SOVAL--------------------------------SAMUEL TRAVIS
The plan is for the Kickstarter to raise at least $275,000 USD. This would give the production team a budget of $125,000 USD, allowing them to purchase a 16,000 square foot warehouse in California to house the offices and sound stage, as well as an additional $100,000 USD for set construction. Other costs include $50,000 USD for pre-production costs (make up/ pre-visualization modeling/costumes) and a whopping $350,000 USD for the final production costs.
A link to the Kickstarter, as well as the 20 minute 'Prelude to Axanar' video, can be found here. Donations will close eleven days from now. I know that I, for one, am very excited over this project. I hope that others in the fleet will consider donating as well!
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Keep your eyes peeled.
Out of all the "fan made" or "independent" Star Trek films, this is by far the best - and most in keeping with the Prime Universe!