Fort Worth native Greg Kwedar sets Oscar follow-up film about magical possum
Greg Kwedar is following up his Oscar-nominated film “Sing Sing” with a movie about a magical possum.
The Fort Worth native is set to direct the fantastical comedy “Possum Song,” starring “Top Gun: Maverick” actor Miles Teller, according to Deadline. Isaac Adamson wrote the screenplay and will produce alongside Teller and Kwedar.
Here’s what the movie is about:
“Possum Song will follow Eddie (Teller), an overconfident Nashville star who is hiding a dark secret: He stole the songs for his hit debut album. Now, with a new wife and a baby on the way, Eddie must write his follow-up solo or risk losing everything. But just when things seem most hopeless, Eddie discovers a musical genius in the form of a magical possum with whom he strikes a dangerous Faustian bargain.”
Kwedar sets Oscar follow-up
Kwedar is coming off an Oscar nomination, his first, for Best Adapted Screenplay for “Sing Sing.”
The prison drama follows a wrongfully imprisoned man at New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility as he finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men. Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin and Paul Raci star in the film.
In addition to screenplay, “Sing Sing” garnered Oscar nominations in Best Original Song and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Domingo). Fort Worth singer Abraham Alexander shared the song nomination with Austin-based Adrian Quesada.
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Kwedar was born and raised in Fort Worth and attended Trinity Valley School for all his schooling.
Since 2008, Kwedar has called Austin home but told the Star-Telegram that he still has family in Cowtown and visits regularly. He also stopped by the Lone Star Film Festival last year to screen “Sing Sing.”
“It still feels like home to me and I think there’s something to the spirit of that town that I think served me in those early years, that helped forward me as a filmmaker,” Kwedar said. “It has this kind of really independent spirit.”
