If Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald weren’t experienced producers who have worked with Steven Spielberg, the way they’ve been buying up new scripts would make us think they were teenagers who just got their first credit card. Their most recent purchase? An untitled action comedy from writers Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly.
The idea follows three improv-trained actors hired by the police to help out in a sting to bust a DVD pirating operation. But, in a plot that sounds like it’ll have a Tropic Thunder vibe, the bootlegging turns out to be a front for something much more illegal, and the trio end up on the run from the criminals and their own police handlers.
Apparently it all got started when Trevorrow did some research about police forces actually doing this. No, not chasing down actors intending to kill them… the part about using them in low-level, low-risk stings.
Could be fun, but even with funding in place, it has a way to go before it gets anywhere near our screens.