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Star Trek: Axanar Funding Success

Kickstarter funding for [I]Star Trek: Axanar[/I] ended late last month, with the project reaching its goal sixfold.

By Flicky Mon 22 Sep, 2014 10:00 PM - Last Updated: Sun 03 Apr, 2016 11:47 PM
Kickstarter funding for Star Trek: Axanar ended late last month, with the project reaching its goal sixfold.[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]

On August 24, funding for the fan film Star Trek: Axanar was successful.


The Kickstarter - with 8,548 backers - raised a final total of $638,471; over six times higher than its goal of $100,000. By comparison, Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar raised $101,171, with Axanar productions receiving $91,006.72 after fees and unpaid pledges. The budget of Prelude To Axanar, which was a 20-minute lead-in to Axanar, totaled out to $79,380.20 according to a blog post from the official Axanar site. Currently, Prelude to Axanar has over 275,000 views on YouTube. Axanar is slated to be a 90-minute long film, and the rough estimated budget ranges from $650,000 to $750,000.

An update to the Kickstarter page revealed that the staff at Axanar Productions had not anticipated raising as much as they did. “We never dreamed we would get close to original amount we said we needed, so we didn't revise the actual production budget, which was created before Prelude to Axanar was even shot… Well, due to all your generosity, we have everything we need for the sets and studio and are well on our way to covering most of the budget. So we are going to start working on a formal budgeting process for Axanar and get those numbers as soon as possible.”

Since our last article on Axanar, several intriguing updates to the project have occurred. Most notable is Trek veteran Garrett Wang joining the cast. Well known for playing Ensign Harry Kim in Star Trek: Voyager, Wang will portray the commander of the first D7-Class Klingon Battlecruiser to enter the war between the Federation and Klingon Empire. Axanar Productions has also shown interest in featuring astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and television producer/previous Trek actor Seth MacFarlane in Axanar, with Axanar’s executive producer Alec Peters asking fans to tweet at them to make them aware.

ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO AXANAR?
BE SURE TO LET US KNOW BELOW!

WRITTEN BY FLICKY
EDITED BY McCLINTOCK - UFP.MCCLINTOCK@HACARI.COM

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4 Comments
Mon 22 Sep, 2014 10:57 PM
Still great news, and nicely done adding the updates at the bottom, making it current for everyone!

Can't wait to see what these guys bring out; After that 20 minute film they can consider me a fan.
Mon 22 Sep, 2014 11:37 PM
Thanks for the Article Flicky! This is certainly great news, I'm been a backers of there since Prelude to Axanar and I really believe the future of Trek as we knew it is through fan made projects like this. I believe the amount of money raise and the number of backers should also prove that point. I can't wait to see what they come up with.
Tue 23 Sep, 2014 11:30 AM
It is great to see the Axanar team get so much support. Prelude to Axanar really showed a level of professionalism which is usually reserved for major blockbuster debuts. What with the unexpected amount they raised, I'm expecting great things from Axanar and from the future projects which come out of Ares studios.

Also, look at JG Hertzler in that header image. What a legendarily cool man.
Thu 25 Sep, 2014 2:26 PM
The prelude was nice to see but I'm not going to get carried away yet. Obviously I wish them every success and hope this will turn out to be good but a 20 minute 'documentary' is a long way from a full movie.

The CGI was overall quite good, the acting was above average in most cases and the directing seemed good although with some of the talent involved and their experience you do have to wonder how much directing some of them needed.

Despite those pluses there were a few little things that bugged me, whilst Prelude was there to demonstrate what they could do and to build interest they chose to do it as a historical documentary, I think they could have done a lot more with that, there was very little information about why the war started, the initial peace negotiations or much detail at all about the conflict, I think it focused too much on the characters in some cases unnecessarily.

None of these are major gripes and I assume this was all as a result of the time constraints of only having 20 minutes and the balance of character and narrative was so heavily in favour of character to introduce the characters to the audience and not to take anything away from the final story by doing too much of the story telling in Prelude.

Axanar should be good but I'm not going to let myself get too excited just yet.