Butler's Script Sale of the Week...
October 1st, 2001
To be perfectly honest, I thought most of the sales this week were average sounding projects. Besides my pick of the week, only the racial drama THE COLOR OF LOVE really caught my interest.
From this batch of formulaic fare, my pick is Tribeca's PORN N' CHICKEN, mainly because I dig the title.
PORN N' CHICKEN is based on the true life tale of a group of Yale students, who, under the guise of a campus club named "Porn 'n' Chicken", produced a short skin flick called THE STAXXX using their fellow students as its stars. The thought that a group of intellectually superior young men would be interested in porn, let alone become producers of such filth, made national headlines.
Screenwriter A.D. Miles (GIRL GO BOOM, 2000) has been hired to adapt the enterprising young lads' story. I haven't seen GIRL GO BOOM, but judging from its title it sounds as if it's right up Miles's alley.
BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) proved that a mainstream flick about pornography could not only be accepted, but successful as well. With Comedy Central co-producing, I doubt that Miles will infuse PORN N' CHICKEN with the same pretensions that PTA lent his porn opus. That's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, a mainstream porn flick without transparent attempts at character development might just prove to be a very entertaining diversion.
Regardless of the success of the project, the real winners are the four Yale students: Jamie Ponsoldt, Colin Spoelman, Josh Newman and Bill Marino. They get to be associate producers on a Robert DeNiro produced film (plus, one imagines, a crapload of cash for their trouble).
It just goes to show that sex sells ... and pays.
--Edward Butler
From this batch of formulaic fare, my pick is Tribeca's PORN N' CHICKEN, mainly because I dig the title.
PORN N' CHICKEN is based on the true life tale of a group of Yale students, who, under the guise of a campus club named "Porn 'n' Chicken", produced a short skin flick called THE STAXXX using their fellow students as its stars. The thought that a group of intellectually superior young men would be interested in porn, let alone become producers of such filth, made national headlines.
Screenwriter A.D. Miles (GIRL GO BOOM, 2000) has been hired to adapt the enterprising young lads' story. I haven't seen GIRL GO BOOM, but judging from its title it sounds as if it's right up Miles's alley.
BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) proved that a mainstream flick about pornography could not only be accepted, but successful as well. With Comedy Central co-producing, I doubt that Miles will infuse PORN N' CHICKEN with the same pretensions that PTA lent his porn opus. That's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, a mainstream porn flick without transparent attempts at character development might just prove to be a very entertaining diversion.
Regardless of the success of the project, the real winners are the four Yale students: Jamie Ponsoldt, Colin Spoelman, Josh Newman and Bill Marino. They get to be associate producers on a Robert DeNiro produced film (plus, one imagines, a crapload of cash for their trouble).
It just goes to show that sex sells ... and pays.
--Edward Butler
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