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Participant Prods might have their ‘tails’ between their legs

They tackled human rights, global warming, and genocide and now they are going the way of the Broken Lizard troupe? Variety reports that Participant Prods. is looking for some laughs and have teamed with Jay Chandrasekhar and Julia Dray to develop a comedy project. It’s a surprising move since titles Beerfest, Club Dread and Super Troopers aren’t especially witty, or necessary.

To be written by Will Gluck, Taildraggers revolves around five aimless twentysomethings who work as pilots for a rickety puddle-jumper airline in the Alaskan wilderness. Action heats up when the misfits discover that a competing airline is involved in a plot to siphon oil from a nature preserve.
 
Broken Lizard's Chandrasekhar might direct and/or star in the film as will the regualr members of the comedy troupe.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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