Right after we wrapped Socket, The Vegan Producers from Velvet Candy Entertainment came to me with an idea. “What would you think about doing a gay Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!?” I immediately said “Of course!” They sent over a story outline, and I started writing the script.

Less than two weeks later I had a good first draft, which made The Vegan Producers very happy. We immediately started discussing how we could get this made.

Months went by, and we sent the script to a bunch of production companies that specialize in gay flicks. One of them, Unnamed Gay Production Company, was very interested in giving us the money for the film. Hooray, right?

Sadly, after several meetings with the Owner of Unnamed Gay Production Company, we had to walk away. UGPC had never been soley a financier before - they always developed and produced their own content, answering only to themselves and their loyal customers. After making a Well Known Gay Film almost a decade ago, the company had turned almost exclusively to gay softcore, and Playgirl videos. Because this was their business model - impossibly hot guys doing full frontal in videos with little to no plot - doing a plot-heavy gay road flick made them jittery, even though they loved the script.

OoUGPC and his very silent partner couldn’t get past how Wildcat Road would be cast. “You’ll never find guys as hot as the guys we insist on that will be willing to do the full frontal and the gay sex scenes. You think it’s easy, but just ask David DeCouteau. He has guys quit on him all the time, right before they shoot…” He kept going on and on about how we’d never find our cast. “Yes, the Socket guys were hot, but not UGPC hot. They have to be models…” We tried to tell him that we didn’t necessarily think we needed full-on models, that we could cast handsome men and that would be good enough. Nope, it had to be models.

He also got completely caught up in artistic control. Even though The Vegan Producers had come up with the idea, and developed the script with me, OoUGPC couldn’t understand why they would want to be in control artistically (with me). Again, he developed and produced all his own stuff, so now giving up that control was too much for him. We had many, many conversations where I talked him off the ledge of “Well, what happens if we’re onset and the three of you gang up and I can’t get what I need on film?”

As a side note: Right before we began talks with them, they’d released Slasher Flick About Hot Rapists Getting Murdered, which had a bit more plot than their other softcore stuff, but was still firmly in their production model - impossibly hot guys doing full frontal, but this time being revenge-killed. Supposedly this was a “gay” film because it featured hot guys doing full frontal, even though the guys were rapists and straight. The more I think about this being sold to the gay audience, the more disgusted I get.

Anyway, after several conversations between The Vegan Producers, OoUGPC and myself that involved strange lapses in OoUGPC’s memory, we broke off talks.

Which brings us to now. We feel like we need to put the Wildcat Road script on its feet, so we’re going to do a staged reading for investors. May 5th, save the date!

We’re in the thick of casting - next post, pictures of porn stars and drag queens that will be appearing in our film!