Have you ever wondered how Ratatouille might've gone down if Linguini wasn't an aspiring chef but a musician, Remy was a magical marsupial rather th
Have you ever wondered how Ratatouille might’ve gone down if Linguini wasn’t an aspiring chef but a musician, Remy was a magical marsupial rather than a talking rat, and the whole thing was set in Nashville rather than Paris? No, neither have we, but we do know someone who has: Sing Sing writer-director Greg Kwedar. Per Deadline‘s reporting, the Oscar nominee’s next movie is set to be the cunningly titled Possum Song, a fantastical comedy about precisely such a scenario, led by none other than Top Gun: Maverick and The Gorge star Miles Teller.
Penned by Isaac Adamson, the man behind the script for the as-yet-unfilmed but Blacklist acclaimed Bubbles (a Michael Jackson biopic told from the perspective of The King of Pop’s titular pet monkey), Possum Song will see Teller star as Eddie, an overzealous Tennessean musician with a secret. That secret? He nabbed the tunes for his breakout album and now finds himself having to handle the hard second album by himself, lest he jeopardise his marriage and the livelihood of his unborn child. And, naturally, this is where the magical possum comes in, offering Eddie what’s described by Deadline as ‘a Faustian bargain’. So the marsupial is slightly less altruistic than Remy, and the aspiring artiste a little less morally virtuous than Linguini, but still… the Ratatouille whiff remains (in a good way!)
Having served up a soul-stirring treatise on the power and purpose of art with critically acclaimed prison set drama Sing Sing, albeit one laced through with lovely streaks of humour and levity, we’re sure that Kwedar and Teller will cook up something more than meets the madcap premise’s eye with Possum Song. And we’ll find out if it hits all the right notes — or if it’s not quite our tempo — soon, hopefully. The movie is being fully financed by FilmNation, and is being pre-sold right now at Cannes, so watch this space.
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