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Possum Song
- Isaac Adamson
- Available
- Drama
- Black List
- 2020
- 87.9
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Market: Fri, 02 Oct 2020
AgentJoe Mann, Tiffany Ward (CAA)
ManagerLee Stobby (Lee Stobby Entertainment)
AgentJoe Mann, Tiffany Ward (CAA)
ManagerLee Stobby (Lee Stobby Entertainment)
After discovering his secret songwriting partner dead, a country music star struggling to record new material makes a Faustian bargain with a family of possums who have taken up residency within his walls.
A country singer makes a life altering deal with the possum living in his walls to write his songs.
When a desperate country music star's ghostwriter dies, he enters a life-changing deal with a family of musical possums living in his walls.
When this famous country singer’s song ghostwriter dies, he makes a demonic bargain with a possum to write the album of his career.
Film
High Concept, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Animal Lead, Drugs, Psychological Thriller, Addiction, Creature, Gory, Obsession, Performance, Performer, Secrets, Singer, Suspenseful
96
R
High
M
Unspecified
32
Attractive
The Lobster (2016)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Sorry To Bother You (2018)
A Star Is Born (2018)
A few weeks / The present.
Rural highway. TV studio: backstage hallway, stage, green room. Mansion: bedroom, art studio, living room. Truck. Farmhouse: living room, hallway, music room, back porch, kitchen, bathroom, front porch,. Country road, embankment, river bank. Inner wall: possum den, tunnel. Tesla, semi truck, tow truck.
Rural gas station, animal shelter.
Country music star EDDIE VESCO (32) hasn’t produced new hit music in years and his record label is threatening to take away his advance money as a result. Forced now to make a full album under a tight timeline, he heads to his reclusive farmhouse for inspiration—or so his manager RANDY (40s) and his wife CHARLENE (28) think.
It turns out, Eddie’s meeting with his former cellmate OTIS REDURN (43) his secret song ghostwriter. Eddie pays him and demands the rest of the album, but the next morning, he finds Otis dead from a heroin overdose. He moves the body out of the house so he isn’t implicated.
When Eddie returns to the house, he sees a possum. He tries to kill it, but it squeezes back into a hole in the wall.
In the wall, this possum, POSSUM JACK, speaks with his mate POSSUM JILL. Otis, it turns out, was their last patron, which means they gave him the ability to write beautiful songs and later planned to eat him. Possum Jill is concerned about Otis’ death because she’s pregnant and forces Possum Jack to bite Eddie, giving him the “itch” to write songs and this making...
It turns out, Eddie’s meeting with his former cellmate OTIS REDURN (43) his secret song ghostwriter. Eddie pays him and demands the rest of the album, but the next morning, he finds Otis dead from a heroin overdose. He moves the body out of the house so he isn’t implicated.
When Eddie returns to the house, he sees a possum. He tries to kill it, but it squeezes back into a hole in the wall.
In the wall, this possum, POSSUM JACK, speaks with his mate POSSUM JILL. Otis, it turns out, was their last patron, which means they gave him the ability to write beautiful songs and later planned to eat him. Possum Jill is concerned about Otis’ death because she’s pregnant and forces Possum Jack to bite Eddie, giving him the “itch” to write songs and this making...