Strippers - Volleyball and Burt Reynolds Too!!!
With strippers - beach volleyball - super sexy super model Angie Everhart and the Amazon goddess of beach volleyball and fitness- Gabrielle Reece you know that this movie will be hot and super sexy but what is the story behind the movie - Cloud 9.
Well, it all started when legendary producer Al Ruddy, producer of the Goldfather, visited his son at NYU in New York City.
Al noticed the poster of Gabrielle Reece on his son dorm room wall.
Al said to his son, "I didn't know you liked beach volleyball."
His kid said, "I don't. I like Gabrielle Reece."
Ruddy then told Brett Hudson and Burt Kearns of Frozen Pictures, "we ought to make a movie about beach volleyball."
Mean while, back at the Frozen office, someone had sent over all this footage of a pole dancing competition- exotic dancers, strippers, whatever you want to call them. Brett relates, "We were doing documentaries, pitching reality series, so I brought the tapes home and was amazed at the strength of these women, suspending themselves in midair. I showed my wife, who's a dancer," and she said it's simple. "These women aren't dancers. They're athletes." Bang! Strippers as beach volleyball players.
Sexy super model Angie Everhart shines in the movie as she plays the part of Julie, the stripper turned beach volleyball star as she faces down beach volleyball legend Gabrielle Reece on the sand.
"Before this movie", commented Angie Everhart "I never played volleyball before! I think everybody should get out there and do it. Our country would be a lot slimmer if everybody played volleyball. It's one of the hardest things I've done. I have bruises!"
"But I think it's more difficult playing a stripper", stated Angie Everhart. "To be an athlete is something that I've always wanted to be. You know, I love sports. I love anything extreme. And I kind of get into having battle wounds. It's kind of cool."
"But being a stripper was harder for me", commented Angie Everhart, "because they wanted me to do a lap dance and I think there's an art in doing lap dances and there's a way that the girls do it and I wasn't prepared to do a lap dance. It's kind of hard. And intimacy is involved when it's not an intimate situation. It makes it more difficult."
"The part of Christina Hansen was written specifically for Gabrielle Reece," says Burt Kearns of Frozen Pictures, who wrote and produced Cloud 9 with Brett Hudson and Academy Award winner Albert S. Ruddy. "We knew she was impressive on the sand, but who could have expected her presence on screen? She's a powerful athlete who combines the elegance of Uma Thurman with the grace of Charlize Theron. And she does action better than both combined."
"Beach volleyball is probably the sexiest women's sport," commented Gabrielle Reece. "So if you're trying to really maximize your sex appeal value, you would get strippers and beach volleyball players somehow moshing together."
Adding some sexy spice to the movie are the bikini clad strippers turned beach volleyball sensations, The Bonsais, played by Patricia de Leon, Katherine Winnick, Marnette Patterson & Kenya Moore.
Presiding over this whole group is Burt Reynolds who plays a con man who forms the world's sexiest beach volleyball team-- with strippers!
The Cloud 9 will be released by Fox Home Entertainment's Jan 3, 2006.
The Cloud 9 DVD bonus features produced by Frozen Pictures include the featurettes Hoosiers Meets Hooters: Behind Cloud 9; Burt Reynolds Fight Club: Directing A Rumble; and Being Gary Busey: The Cameo Outtakes.
