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Striking Surgery: Above, Jessica Drake and Capri
Cavanni; below, Asa Akira represents Blood.
don’t do it at home, so it doesn’t really come up. I
like tying people up. I like being restrained by hands.
But I’m actually going to be stitched to the walls. So
we’ll see how that goes. I’m really interested to see
what happens here.
It’s not the only physical challenge she’s faced on
this shoot. There was the previous day’s scene in
which she was hanging limp in a harness as Death
tried to grab her. “This is probably the hardest movie
that I’ve done since Fallen,” Drake says, referring to
Armstrong’s award-winning 2008 fantasy about a
fallen angel. “This may be harder. We wrapped at
5am, got to bed at 6am, got up at 9:30am.
“Everybody’s doing a great job,” she adds. “We
have amazing people.”
A look around the room proves Drake’s last point.
The stitches that Armstrong has drawn onto his per-
formers are echoed in black yarn on several white
fabric panels in the center of the set, which are being
pushed around by award-winning art direction team
Kylie Ireland and Andy Appleton.
Ireland, who started in the business in 1994, said
that her presence on the set represented a milestone:
“It’s the first time I’ve ever worked with Brad.” But
she certainly was aware of his reputation for domi-
nating the AVN Awards in the art direction category.
Ireland joked that once she started to work on pro-
duction design, she teased Armstrong: “One of these
days I’m going kick your ass and win an AVN
Award.” (She realized her goal last January.)
Production manager David Lord takes a few min-
utes to talk after surveying the food table. Yesterday’s
shoot went very long, so there will need to be plenty
of fuel for the crew. The most popular item is the
Nutella—and there’s almost none left.
In addition to directing his own projects, includ-
ing an all-sex movie titled Wet, Lord recently did a
cameo on Armstrong’s recent comedy Just Visiting.
But Lord’s role here is much bigger. Crediting
Armstrong as a source of inspiration in his career,
Lord says, “It’s been eight years since I worked with
Brad. Apparently he has enough confidence in me to
hire me as his PM for his big show of the year.”
And this is a big show. Though this day’s shoot is
intimate compared to other scenes with more special
effects, it’s clear from the crew he’s assembled that
Armstrong has very ambitious plans for Underworld.
As still photographer Marc Star shoots Jessica Drake
against the white backdrop, veteran Wicked cine-
matographer Francois Clousot is preparing to work
his magic. And on a second camera is award-winning
cinematographer Alex Ladd. A former owner of
DVSX, Ladd got back into adult movies because of
his love of working with DSLR cameras. And
Wicked vet Lee Snyders is doing the BTS footage.
They’re all here to bring Armstrong’s vision to life.
He stops working for a few minutes to talk about the
project and to show some photos of earlier shoots on
his smartphone, including outdoor scenes at a place
called Club Ed that looks a bit like Vasquez Rocks.
From the beginning Armstrong had ideas about
NEWS BRIEFS the cast. For one, he had Asphyxia Noir in mind.
“Sometimes when I’m writing I know who’s going to
play whom. Like I knew Xander,” Armstrong said,
noting that he is using Corvus prominently in the
trailer. “I had him say ‘Welcome to the Underworld,’
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DreamZone Entertainment has
announced a fall release for
Rambone: A DreamZone Parody.
The parody of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo
franchise stars Bonnie Rotten as Joan
Rambone, a gender-reversed version of
everyone’s favorite Green Beret.
Thankfully not going with the title jokingly suggested in the past of E.T.: The
Extra Testicle, DreamZone Entertainment is nevertheless ramping up to release a
triple-X parody this fall of the 1982 Steven Spielberg classic about a boy and his
brother from an alien mother.
In the adapted-for-porno version, directed by AVN Hall of Famer Jim Powers, Elliott
has been changed to Elle, with Capri Anderson taking on the gender reversed role. Other
cast members include Veronica Radke, Jodi Taylor, Alana Evans, Logan Pierce, Tyler
Nixon, Bradley Remington and Will Powers.
Directed by Jordan Septo—who helmed
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“We are all very excited to
DreamZone’s Hairy Twatter, Laverne &
have Jim Powers directing a par-
Shirley XXX and Welcome Back Kotter
ody for us,” DreamZone vice
XXX—Rambone also features Christy Mack,
president Adam Hasner said.
Kendall Karson, Derrick Pierce, Tommy
“Jim is respected in and dedicat-
Pistol, Seth Gamble and Ryan McLane.
ed to our industry, and to have
“Rambone was an awesome experience!
him direct a title like E.T. XXX
Getting to embody the character in a movie
for us is an honor. We know that the fans will fall in love with our little alien, the same as
that I grew up watching was a huge treat for me,” Rotten said. “Working with Jordan
they did 31 years ago.”
Septo was a blast and the whole crew was amazing. They let me have a real survival
ny vice president Adam Hasner said. “Rambo was one of my favorite characters grow-
E.T. XXX: A DreamZone Parody will be released in a two-disc collector’s edition that
ing up, and Bonnie Rotten did such a great job with the role. Jordan Septo did an
will include non-sex versions of some of DreamZone’s other parodies, as well as bonus
equally amazing job directing.”
scenes, trailers and photo galleries.
Hasner added, “PR has already been underway on social media and through the
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Answering the question sure to spring to everyone’s mind, Hasner revealed, “Yes, our
knife, which gets them major points with me.”
E.T. does have sex. This fact was kept in mind when we had E.T.’s suit designed specifi-
cally for this movie.”
various media outlets. We have a lengthy and in-depth promotional campaign
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planned for this title.”
“From the beginning, this project has been very exciting for DreamZone,” compa-
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