But goddam, when he came back with that footage, I couldn’t believe it.
They were really just going to write about it for the magazine. “I was a little nervous about being there so I just gave them a camera and said, you should film this. “That bulletproof vest Johnny used was the best one he could afford, which was the cheapest one on the market,” Tremaine recalled.
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Tremaine learned how to direct through that show.
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Much like South Park took root from the circulation of the bootleg tape The Spirit Of Christmas (which Trey Parker and Matt Stone did as a video holiday card), Knoxville’s crude reel became the basis for the Jackass TV series. I was the first to write about Knoxville and this meld of extreme sports and humor. Back at Variety, I got hold of that tape when it was circulating around Hollywood. Tremaine wouldn’t attend what could have been Knoxville’s snuff reel, but he gave the future star a camera to preserve the experience. Tremaine was running the skateboard magazine Big Brother back in the ’90s when Johnny Knoxville had the idea to write a first-person story of how it felt to get tasered, and, among other things, to be shot with a small caliber handgun while wearing a bulletproof vest. Like Motley Crue, the Jackass success just kind of happened. The guys who’ve sacrificed their bodies and dignity for raucous comedy on the MTV series, and in three films that have been cheap to produce, and have been massively profitable both at the domestic box office and on video. He has spent most of his career as the behind-the-scenes ringleader of the Jackass crew. I guess it is not surprising that Tremaine would feel a kinship to Motley Crue. Californication scribe Tom Kapinos is polishing the script, and the film is being set up independently by CAA to shoot early next year, with the agency repping domestic distribution rights. The film will be produced by LBI Entertainment’s Rick Yorn and Julie Yorn, along with 10th Street Entertainment and Erik Olsen.
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