man, rhett hasn't been in any videos for a while. Didn't his friends say he was actually gay in a video? Wonder if it's true. He seems to get into some of the action in some of the vids I've seen of him!
I think he was more interested in the amount of money that was being flashed at him. I think it was discussed he bought a BMW shortly after the Solo vids and 6th Anniversary vids. I think he didn't care what people though about him-he just moved away initially with Erik (supposedly his best friend) because of the fuss at the original HS-but they eventually had a falling out because Rhett started talking about it at he new school and started the mess all over again.
I think part of the problem is that the owner of SCM tends to take a long time to release videos, especially the ones dealing with the group of 18-19 year olds from that one HS. In the first vids with Rhett and his 4 buddies Nathan, Cole, Kevin, and Morris, Rhett and Nathan were still in school but the others had graduated. Since then all of Rhett and Nathan's vids were while they were still in school. The last vid released of Rhett was Rhett/Nathan Watcher in
Feb 09. It was filmed
shortly after the 6th Anniversary shoot. The 6th Anniversary was released in three parts from
Dec 07 to Jan 08. It was filmed sometime right after they just got back to school in
Sept 07. So I am guessing the Rhett/Nathan Watcher was filmed
Oct 07. That's
16 months from filming to release. All the Watchers and Plus Ones are done
before they get into heavier action (except Kevin's Plus One which was done 2 weeks after the 6th Anniversary shoot- and just released June 3-09-that's
20 months from filming to release!). Nathan's Plus One wasn't relesed until March 09 even though it was filmed around September 07. That's
18 months. The Tropical Retreat shoot was a little better. It was released in 4 parts from Aug 08 thru Oct 08, yet it was filmed around spring break time (March 08) for Nathan and Rhett because they were still in school (they graduated May 08) and needed a long break time to go to Hawaii for several days. The Rhett Watcher (4/08)-Rhett Plus One (6/08)-Morris Watcher (6/08) Nathan Watcher (3/08) Nathan Butt (7/08) were all released
7 to 10 months after they were filmed around
Sept 07. There are many more examples, but I guess you get my point by now. Even the new guys (Wayne, Leith and Chuck) showing up in Auditions from the same school that Rhett initially came from talk about waiting for school to get out before coming in. They were just released end of May 09 beginning of June 09, but I don't think they were immediate released with the track record of SCM, so they may have been holdovers from last May also.
In summary the films involving Rhett were filmed between September 07 (He and Nathan were in school and the other guys were graduated-if Rhett and Nathan were 18 it had to be the fall of their senior year because if it was spring of 07 then the other guys would still be in school also) and March or April 08 (around spring break to get a long time off school). The owner of SCM has just dragged them out to continue to milk it as much as he can.
I don't know if Rhett will be around anymore unfortunately with such a large amount of time (
15 months) the last film he did was shot. The same with any of those original guys from "twink High' as SCM put it. Any of the new guys being released now have probably been filmed between 3-6 months ago at the least if he is still following the same patterns. I do not know what takes so long since he seems to have more employees now. I guess if he's raking in the dough (subscriptions and sales) he doesn't have to rush it.