Chilly winds are blowing through the Big Tujunga Canyon section of the Angeles State Forest, but Ashlynn Brooke insists on taking her coat off for pictures on the set of New Sensations’ “Tru Blood” parody.
It is obvious why.
“Big Tujunga,” I say.
Brooke is an example of a team player contract performer, and both she and New Sensations seem to be profiting from the mutual respect.
Alone since the departure this summer of former contract performer Sadie West, Brooke has both starred in and played character parts in several New Sensations movies since then, and now is the principal screenwriter of their most expensive project this year.
“This is the second script I’ve written for New Sensations,” Brooke said, “and the first one they’ve produced. We’re really excited about it. And I’m really glad they trusted me.”
To my knowledge, the only other major studio contract performer who writes her own scripts is Wicked’s Stormy Daniels.
Based on the bayou vampire HBO series from Alan Ball, the creator of “American Beauty” and “Six Feet Under,” “True Blood” follows in the footsteps of “The Sex Files” in that the source material is very popular with men, women, and geeks.
“Our goal with the parodies is to have them be the the first pornos someone buys,” said director Lee Roy Myers. “We want to capture both the new and the ‘experienced’ porn fans.”
On the heels of their big (+/- $70k)-budget “Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody,” which was the first New Sensations picture to utilize the high-end, film-quality Red One camera, “True Blood” is the company’s most expensive film to date, in that the production rented two Red Ones.
“We have been using the Red One since June, 2008,” said a Digital Playground spokesperson. “And we own ours.”
Regardless, New Sensations has been churning out parodies with a regularity that matches that of X-Play, and has yet to use James Bartholet once.
“We’re really proud of the work,” said Myers.
On the set, which we last saw in Vivid’s “Miles from Needles,” Misty Stone, playing Tara, finds the eviscerated body of her friend as Brooke (“Sookie”) and Evan Stone look on.
“I cried real tears,” said Stone, who I didn’t recognize with long cornrows. The next morning she is at the Bigfoot Lodge for a different sequence in which boobs, and not entrails, were displayed.
Elsewhere, Vanessa Naughty played some kind of monster. She distresed me so much that I asked her to give me a handjob with her claws.
“True Blood” has a large female fanbase and is one of the highest-rated shows on premium cable (it has remarkably similar ratings to “30 Rock,” though that show is on broadcast television, but which is also one of the more recent New Sensations parodies).
“Women likes vampires because they’re sexy,” said Brooke.
That’s weird, I thought. I like vampires because they’re clean.
“True Blood” will be released early in 2010, with a large marketing campaign featuring it, “Sex Files,” and the other New Sensations parodies at January’s AVN show.
On the set, the tiny Brooke clung to Evan Stone who, in “Miles from Needles,” dipped his balls in some oatmeal in a building about 50 yards away.
“I’ve been here before,” said the always-affable Stone. “Several times; similar character.”
But while Stone had indeed been to this dusty rental ranch several times, Brooke promised that “True Blood” would be special.
“I gave myself some good sex scenes,” she said.
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Porn screenwriting – Money can buy a happy ending
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