Fresh off the critical acclaim and Oscar buzz of Sing Sing, director Greg Kwedar is taking an unexpected — and wildly imaginative — turn with his next project. Swapping prison walls for recording studios and moral ambiguity for musical absurdity, Kwedar is set to direct Possum Song, a surrealist comedy with a singing possum at its heart and Whiplash star Miles Teller in the lead.
The film follows Eddie, a self-satisfied Nashville sensation whose chart-topping debut album is built on a well-concealed lie: the songs weren’t his. As Eddie wrestles with creative burnout, looming fatherhood, and a crisis of conscience, his world collides with the utterly bizarre — a possum who not only talks, but writes hit songs. And if that premise isn’t strange enough, the possum seems to offer a deal with distinctly Faustian undertones.
Written by Chippendales screenwriter Isaac Adamson, Possum Song will be introduced to international buyers at the Cannes market this May.
With its mix of magical realism, country music satire, and a sharp jab at the price of fame, the film promises to be a genre-defying follow-up to Kwedar’s award-winning drama.
