Director Jason Reitman Created A Porn Site Just For His Latest Film

Perhaps the greatest example of successful nepotism in history is the career of Jason Reitman. Hailed as a genius after his debut film Thank You for Smoking, he would go on to garner back-to-back Best Director nominations for his next two films, Juno and Up in the Air. His work has been incredibly hit and miss since then, and his latest, Men, Women and Children (why do you hate the Oxford Comma Reitman?) has been his most divisive.

Since the film deals with a multitude of online transgressions by everyone from teens to married adults, it was going to require some interesting footwork to avoid copyright infringement without the participation of certain websites. Rather than go down this road, however, Reitman opted to create his own porn site for the film, news he recently shared with The Huffington Post (link below).

Instead of using mock-ups or PDFs displayed on a screen, Reitman and his crew actually created a functioning porn site for the characters to use while filming, all the way down to the search function and thumbnails from actual porn videos.

"We had a guy whose job, full-time, was to look at porn ... and find thumbnails so we could create Pornhub pages so that it looked as though someone was searching things and things were coming up," Reitman told HuffPost Live's Roy Sekoff. "So that guy, for weeks, he just watched porn and came up with thumbnails and titles to clips."

A guy whose full-time job is to look at porn? What a time to be alive!

Via The Huffington Post