After I failed to get anyone interested in the project, I still wanted to do something on cowboys and rodeos. I decided to work with the Lane Frost idea but show more on new people who were just coming into the sport. He also wants to give people a reality check. You just don't get on a bull. You can't be in Chicago and think, 'That looks easy,' and go get on a bull.
Bull riding requires a lot of training and instruction.
I hope to show people who have no idea what rodeo or bull riding is about, what it really happens in contestants' lives, just not what happens in the arena. Wittkower plans to attend rodeos across the nation, including one in Santa Maria, California, as well as at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and he plans to visit with Lane Frost's parents and local champion Cody Lambert of Henrietta. He also hopes to spend time with Dr. Tandy Freeman of the Justin SportsMedicine Program, who operates on many cowboy injuries. The crew has been invited to film surgery for typical injuries cowboy sustain. Another stop included in his travel plans is a memorial bull riding in Austin for bull rider Brent Thurman, who was killed several years ago when a bull stepped on his neck and head at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.