Known for laughers and knee-slappers such as An Inconvenient Truth, Darfur Now and Standard Operating Procedure, THR announced that Participant Media is teaming up (with Tapestry Films) on a comedy that goes by a storyline that should have occured for a couple of high-ranking folks at Enron. The partnership puts together a company with a great track record in terms of quality
content and another with forgettable slew of comedies such as The Comebacks, the Van Wilder franchise and box office gold Wedding Crashers and The Wedding Planner to vouch for.
Currently being polished off by scripters Tegan West (“The Cave”) and actor Scott Atkinson, Minimum Wage tells the story of a thieving corporate exec sentenced to live on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted.
Tapestry’s partners Peter Abrams, Robert Levy and Andrew Panay will produce the feature and Participant’s vp Creative Affairs and Production Jodi Zuckerman acquired the pitch from and will oversee the film alongside Tapestry’s Michael Schreiber, an executive producer on the project. By the way…who changed the Participant logo? I liked the old one.