{"id":345408,"date":"2025-12-13T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345408\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:22:07","slug":"matt-zane-on-recent-opposition-to-his-unauthorized-wayne-static-tera-wray-documentary-my-obligation-isnt-to-the-families-its-to-wayne-and-tera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345408\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Zane On Recent Opposition To His Unauthorized Wayne Static & Tera Wray Documentary: “My Obligation Isn\u2019t To The Families \u2014 It\u2019s To Wayne And Tera”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Zane has responded to the recent joint statement issued by the families of late Static-X frontman Wayne Static and his wife Tera Wray regarding a new documentary being headed up by Zane on the deceased couple. The Society 1 vocalist revealed his plans for that unauthorized documentary<\/a> several weeks ago, aiming to tell the story of the last seven years of the couple\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

He claimed that Static & Wray had personally asked him to oversee the project prior to their respective deaths (Wayne died in 2014 following a fatal dose of prescription medication and alcohol, Wray took her own live in 2016.)<\/p>\n

Zane also stated that he was in possession of music he had been working on with Wayne for a film that Wray was scheduled to star in, until Wayne\u2018s label put an end to the project. Zane initially indicated he planned to complete those songs with the use of AI technology.<\/p>\n

Speaking earlier this week, the families of Wayne and Wray in no uncertain terms strongly opposed the plans for the documentary and music<\/a>, claiming that they would be pursuing appropriate legal means should the project progress.<\/p>\n

Undeterred, yesterday, December 11th, saw Zane launch a crowdfunding campaign<\/a> for the film, while also explaining why he chose to continue with the project. That leads us to today, where Zane has now given his response to the joint statement issued by the two families:<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand the family\u2019s concerns, especially Wayne\u2019s sister Aimee who is a wonderful person, but my obligation isn\u2019t to the families \u2014 it\u2019s to Wayne and Tera. They asked me to do this, and I know they would want the focus to be on the two of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding the families request that any rare or unseen footage of Wayne be turned over for potential usage in the upcoming official \u2018Evil Disco\u201d documentary, Zane replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the family is a bit confused about the creation of the official documentary \u2018Evil Disco\u2018. I was hired and edited about 85% of that and in good faith allowed my footage to be used within the edit. I never signed over the footage legally for use but was willing to do so if the agreed-upon terms were met. I also allowed my personal footage of Wayne to be used in multiple music videos such as \u2018Stay Alive\u2018 and \u2018All These Years\u2018 even though the band hasn\u2019t officially licensed it from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to add:<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally think both movies can exist. I watched a working cut of Evil Disco with Wayne\u2019s sister Aimee and it\u2019s really cool, but it\u2019s more about the band \u2014 past and present. My movie is about Wayne and Tera.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to the unreleased music he worked on with Wayne, Zane included a brief tease of the track \u201cI Watch\u201d in the below crowdfunding campaign video. He went on to reveal that he may alter those songs in a bid to get them into the film:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as the unreleased music, unfortunately I\u2019m unable to use any of that without the family\u2019s consent. What I may do is create tracks based off of the music Wayne and I worked on and bring in other singers, similar to what Jonathan Davis did for \u2018Queen Of The Damned\u2018.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I can tell you this: there are six tracks Wayne wrote and recorded that I did not have any part in that are truly his final solo works. Yes, his vocals are on them and they were done in 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of press time, the the project appears to be off to a rocky start, raising some $200 from 2 backers<\/a> since launching yesterday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Zane has responded to the recent joint statement issued by the families of late Static-X frontman Wayne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,172660,216,167736,172661,172662],"class_list":["post-345408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-zane","tag-music","tag-static-x","tag-tera-wray","tag-wayne-static"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}