Are you protected by Parody law for commercial use? (for example South Park makes money off their products even with blatant likeness and other negative advertisement. Another example of what I'm talking about is Broforce, it is clearly using many well known movie/tv characters in their game. Is it considered fair use…
That was actually my backup plan, although the main problem I think is that we ripped a couple of assets (just a few character models) from the original. Since we're doing a non-profit project with a pretty low budget it is pretty hard to find people who are willing to work for free (especially on a project that may never…