Raging Stallion Goes on the Road

Hey Guys--Chris Ward here. Its Tuesday in sunny San Francisco and we are all excited about the start of our big military adventure movie--GRUNTS! We leave tomorrow morning at 8 AM for what is scheduled to be a three-week shoot. The pre-production work on the shoot is now pretty much finished and now we move directly into principal photography.

As I walked around the studio where items are being staged to load up onto trucks, I am amazed at the size of this movie project. This is the biggest porn production in recent years, and it is going to take a 20-foot truck and six other smaller vehicles to get us and our equipment up to the location.

So what kind of items does one need to take along for an away shoot? Well, a partial list might include twenty C-Stands and high rollers, a large light kit consisting of fifteen 2,000 watt lights, six daylight balanced lights of various sizes, six 1,000 watt lights, two Kino Flow bank lights and fill lights. We also are taking 2,500 feet of high-voltage extension cords (that is almost half a mile of cable!). We have three new HD cameras and all the equipment that goes with them. One thing I like to do on away shoots is to have two film crews shooting different scenes in different places at the same time--which means we need lots of cameras.

In the prop department, we have additional trucks heading to Los Angeles to pick up jeeps, tents, guns, cannons, and an assortment of items from the Hollywood prop houses. We have an entire portable army base, including numerous tents (some of them are huge--36 feet long). We have 20 bunks, pool tables for the rec hall, a portable army kitchen that can feed our crew of 30 men as well as the many reporters and photographers that are coming thru to cover the shoot. We have wardrobe for 25 GRUNTS and sergeants, flags, banners, and benches. Twenty six stuffed duffle bags will give us something to fuck on, and ten 30 by 50 cammo nets will protect us from the blazing heat of the sun.

Logistics are a principal concern--just like in the army! We have to feed between 25 and 35 people each day, three times per day! that is over one thousand meals! We have three cooks on staff, and Costco is going to love us.

With over 20 models in the shoot, model fees are over $100,000, and air fairs for all these guys ran almost $20,000.

As you can see, the cost of this production is enormous, so these movies had better pay off. I am reminded of when Fox tried to shoot Cleopatra in the early 1960s--it nearly bankrupted the studio! I sure hope I am doing the right thing by betting on GRUNTS being the biggest blockbuster ever!

I hope to report the progress of the shoot on a daily basis here at my blog. Stay tuned for new photos and commentary on sex scenes shot each and every day. It is going to be busy, fucking here and fucking there--I hope I can keep up with it all!!!