Producer/director Michael Adams of Ground Zero Entertainment celebrates a year of exclusivity with Metro this week. Adams and co-director, Mick Hatterass, have just completed Deception for Metro. It features the comeback performance of Madelyn Night who has just signed on with the company as a contract performer. Deception also featured the mini-soap opera starring Brandon Iron who went back to Canada after being booted out of the U.S. last week.
Adams, who was "stuck in a shitload of traffic on the 405," had this to say when we caught up with him this morning.
Adams: "I shot some primary stuff with him [Iron] last Tuesday, and then I called him Wednesday afternoon. He said, 'I tried every last thing I could to stay in the country, but, basically, I have until tomorrow to get out.' So, instead of being like every other person who comes illegally in the country, he decided to pack up and move out. He's gone for good. He's not a citizen of the United States, and it just brought up a big thing with me, that how was he working for companies that were doing payroll if he doesn't have a social security number? That was another issue. I had never really used him on the gonzo-stuff. Other people at Metro used him. This was the first time he gave me a social security number, but Lord knows who's it was. But he's gone. He never admitted he was here illegally. My cameraman, Quasarman, who was originally from Canada, has been here for a ton of time and got his citizenship. He [Iron] was calling him a lot and asking him what he should do. Basically I think his biggest problem is that, at the airport, he would give his passport instead of a driver's license. This way they could track how many times he came in and out of the country. I think that's what his demise was. There's a way not to do it, and that was the way he was doing it. He's gone for good, but I told him, 'If you want to put together some talent for me up there, I'll send somebody up there to shoot a couple of movies with you.' He said he'd give it some thought."
Deception, according to Adams, had its "trials and tribulations." "We completed everything Saturday night," Adams says. "Saturday was basically to pick up the scenes with Madelyn Night. When she came out here, she had forgotten to bring her tests with her. So, we were supposed to shoot two scenes with her last Tuesday. That's why I had to reschedule and shoot her Thursday and Saturday. She was fine. All I can say for a quote is that she's still got that mentality that she still works under contract with Vivid. On one hand she was easy to work with, but, on doing scenes, it just became apparent that she's not used to doing, actually, sex scenes." [Adams laughs.]
"We pulled it off, she did her scenes and we sent her back on an airplane to New York, Sunday."
Adams describes Deception as a "moderate budget" shoot. "It was supposed to be a two-day shoot, but with the [Iron] snafu, we went to three days. That brought up the budget a tad. We shot most of it at The Stage, Jay's [Shanahan] place. God bless him. I remember the days when I could shoot there for a thousand bucks for a 14-hour day, but those days are long gone. One of the days was a really nice location shoot in Encino. That was the first day."
"Deception is one of those all-familiar shows where a husband and wife aren't getting along. Wife hears that husband is cheating on her, and she ends up spiting him by going to work in a whorehouse. And he's the one that ends up frequenting the whorehouse. And it ends up, in a twisted plot, that her girlfriend is trying to get her to work there so that she could see that her husband's cheating on her. The girlfriend actually wants the husband. The husband is Mr. Kyle Stone. I used a lot of new talent in this show. Then I had Alexandra Silk and Tice Bune, Pat Myne; and Ron Jeremy did a cameo blowjob scene in the hallway of the whorehouse."
"We had one very interesting sex scene with Alexandra Silk and Tice Bune, I did a big role reversal with them. I put Tice Bune in a full women's latex bodysuit, a skirt, heels, fishnets...the whole nine yards and chained him to a wall. He and Alexandra got it on. That was actually a really cool scene. The show went into editing yesterday. We're looking at a summer release."
Adams was with Elegant Angel during the Rob Black era, before coming to Metro. "We were doing the feature stuff and some gonzos - the original Bunghole Harlots 1 & 2. We were there to give Patrick [Collins] Playboy-type features. We shot four or five of them. I was with Greg [Alves] over at Elegant, and when he left, he said he just got a gig over at Metro, so why don't you come over here?"
Adams says he's also trying to work a deal with Tina Cherry for exclusivity. "Basically, Greg was really pleased on how the foootage came out for The Squirt Machine movie. I think I'm going to continue the series another three volumes with Tina as the host. We've already set up for her to go to Howard Stern and bring a tape with her as soon as we finish editing which is pretty soon."
