LOS ANGELES—Men.com this Saturday will release the much-awaited first scene of Rise of the Sirens, the new all-male big budget feature from veteran filmmaker Marc MacNamara, on VOD. Subsequent scenes will be released on succeeding Saturdays through May 2.
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“I’ve been in industry for over a decade and this is the most physically demanding feature I’ve ever worked on,” MacNamara said Wednesday. “One of the head guys at Men.com wanted to do story about mermaids for years and I thought it would be great to do it. But I wanted a little more meaning to the story, so I took the angle that climate change would bring these male mermaids to shore.”
Shot on location in Hawaii with a sprawling tropical backdrop, Rise of the Sirens follows the story of three mermaids (Beaux Banks, Paul Canon and Angel Rivera) who due to climate change, must now find food closer to shore. So, when two snorkelers go out and explore the oceans at night, these predators attack.
Unaware of the danger, two local surfers and best friends (Matthew Camp and Colby Tucker) are being stalked by Beaux while out surfing. At sunset, when Matt lays on the sand relaxing as Beaux swims to shore and his fins turn to feet, Matt and Beaux meet and form a connection—with Matt still not knowing he is a mermaid. But once the truth is revealed, two angry locals (JJ Knight and Collin Simpson) are now bent on killing the mermaids.
“I knew I definitely wanted to have Beaux as the lead mermaid in the movie. I wanted it to be action-packed with a lot of crazy stunts because I knew he could pull them off,” MacNamara said. “Matt and Beaux were great together and Colby Tucker was the comic relief in the movie with his dry sense of humor. He was brilliant.”
Shot over the course of 10 days in scenic, if not nearly inaccessible locations in Oahu, Rise of the Sirens tested all of the performers’ mettle as they hiked through jungles to get to locations and frequently trained in swimming pools for swimming or underwater sequences.
“It was a grueling shoot and the cast have scars to remember this one by,” MacNamara recalled. “I even had to go to the hospital at the end of it!”
With a passion for storytelling and filmmaking, MacNamara joined the adult industry in 2008 after working in mainstream television and films for years. His cinematic style and emphasis on characterization and real chemistry between performers helped him earn the first of many industry awards which include the 2019 GayVN Award for Best Porn Parody for Men.com’s Pirates: A Gay XXX Parody.
His other awards include the 2010 Cybersocket award for Best Movie, the Hustlaball Award for Best Director and Best Movie as well as earning multiple Grabby Awards for Best Director, Best Movie, Best Screenplay and others.
With his Nasty Boy Productions imprint, MacNamara has continued to write, direct and produce a number of acclaimed films for the gay market, which include Tarzan: A Gay XXX Parody, Rental House 1, Original Sinners, Murdered Heart and others.
“I’m kind of a dork when it comes to writing a script,” he said. “I like to figure out who these characters are and what motivates them and I always like to write a real bio. My background is in writing first so that’s a big part of it.”
As for the future, MacNamara is already writing his next movie that he plans shoot later this year, but the plot remains under wraps.
For more information, MacNamara is on Twitter at @MarcMacNamara and Instagram at @MarcMacNamara.
Pictured: Beaux Banks
