HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Will Ryder has wrapped initial production on “Love, Sex & Music,” a dramatic feature movie set amidst the backdrop of the country music scene in Nashville, Tennessee.
“When beautiful Black, aspiring singer/songwriter Dixie (September Reign) moves to Nashville with hopes of becoming a country music star, she discovers that Music Row is not the welcoming home she expected, but rather a den of lies, deceit, court cases and despair,” a rep described. “Desperate for acceptance, she befriends a fading country music ‘has-been,’ 40 years her senior, only to see their duet shockingly reach Number One on the country charts.”
Reign revealed that when she first read the script, it didn’t dawn on her that she would be playing the lead role.
“All I knew was I loved the story and would have taken any role just to be in the movie,” she said. “I was shocked and happy when Will informed me, yes, I would be playing the lead character. It’s a dream role.”
Ryder, who spent time in the country music business back in the late 1990s when he teamed to put together the boy-band South Sixty Five, explained that “Nashville is seriously no joke. It’s cutthroat. And September played the role of Dixie like she had actually experienced life in the country music business. She was so good.”
“I harvested many of my country music reference points from my days in Nashville when I worked with some extremely opinionated A&R record label people in the country music scene,” Ryder added.
“It was a very big production,” remarked co-producer Scott David. “Our cast, crew, story and the original country music specifically written and recorded for this movie is fantastic. The main song will be stuck in your head for days.”
Reign is joined by Vanna Bardot as a rival pop princess superstar along with Whitney Wright, Nina Elle, Misty Stone, Madison Summer, Zerella Skies, Cecilia Taylor, April Love and Samantha Lexi. The male cast includes Jay Romero, Dorian Del Isla, Joshua Lewis, Rusty Nails, James Bartholet, Frank Bukkwyd as the grizzled country music veteran and Ryder himself as a prosecuting attorney.
Adam & Eve Head of Production Rachel V. explained that the studio greenlighted the production immediately after hearing the synopsis.
“We didn’t have to wait to read the full script,” she said. “We loved what this story was all about from the very first conversation and synopsis.”
“Love, Sex & Music” is the fourth in a line of featured which began with Ryder’s award-winning “Love, Sex & TV News.” Other titles in the franchise are “Love, Sex & Lawyers,” and “Love, Sex & Fashion,” released this month and out on DVD on April 19.
“Love, Sex & Music” will be released later this summer from Adam & Eve Pictures.