Lawsuit against fan-made Star Trek movie to be dropped, J.J. Abrams says

Star Trek Beyond’s director told Paramount to pull the suit, Abrams tells fans A lawsuit brought by Paramount Pictures against a fan-made and funded Star Trek film is “going away,” director J.J. Abrams told a crowd at a Star Trek fan event on Friday night.

Abrams, according to io9, told fans that Justin Lin, the director of Star Trek Beyond, was angered by the lawsuit Paramount Pictures brought back in December against Axanar Productions, which raised more than $1 million to film and produce Axanar, pitched as a prequel to the original Star Trek television series.

Lin, said Abrams, “was sort of outraged by this as a longtime fan,” and went to Paramount “and pushed them to stop this lawsuit.”