My Reverse Sell Out

I’ve talked at great length over the past couple of months regarding my transition from mainstream film and television into the adult entertainment industry. If you’re new to my ramblings, check out my posts from early April for a little background.

Even though I’ve moonlighted a few times as a production advisor on some adult sets over the years, I decided last November that 2008 would be year that I completely cut my ties with mainstream in order to move ahead full throttle in creating a new highly publicized genre of adult film. I completely came to terms with walking away from the Hollywood bullshit, the boredom, and being burnout after working in the industry since I was a teenager.

With all due respect to the great adult filmmakers who read this site on a daily basis, you have to admit that there’s still a lot of room for growth and originality when it comes to adult movie making. The idea of walking away from a successful mainstream writing and producing career to do something new and fresh in adult became more exciting to me than any shit head MTV reality fucking Real World reunion show or contrived game show I’ve ever worked on. I said all my fuck you’s to the mainstream side of things and walked away. Clear conscience.

One of the most overused and molested movie quotes of all time is “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.” Well, I have to admit that it happened to me recently. I received an offer to be a co-producer on a new shitty E! reality television show. This comes on the heels of me finishing up my first adult feature script and looking forward to closing a deal to start production in the next couple of weeks. This isn’t the first offer I’ve had to return to mainstream, but the paycheck for this one was a lot harder to turn down. I know I probably sound like an asshole complaining about stepping away from porn to produce a TV show, but let me try and explain my feelings better using porn star escorting terms. I’m basically going to allow a gangbang of Jewish studio execs and lawyers to fuck my ass 14 hours a day for the next two months while they complain that my asshole isn’t tight enough. I’m not looking for sympathy. I’m just bummed a bit that I’m going to have to delay the start of my adult feature production in order to do the reverse sell out thing one more time.

I’ve received some kind emails over the last couple of months from people offering to help me out in my porn odyssey. Unfortunately, It’s just going to take a little while longer for me to begin. I’m hoping my temporary return to mainstream will give me the opportunity to expose some really dirty Hollywood shit exclusively here on MikeSouth.com.