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(TV Series)WRITER: Jim GoodmanGENRE: Drama, MusicalTEASER:In a rickety cabin on the outskirts of Nashville, a lone GUITAR PLAYER sings a sad tune as he surveys the wreckage of an epic jam. Empty jugs, bottles, half-smoked joints, overflowing ashtrays. A broken fiddle with twisted strings. Two halves of a snapped bow, bound in a knotty tangle of frayed horsehair. A banjo stabbed to the wall with a Bowie knife. An upright bass on the floor, it's OWNER spooning it, snoring. Musicians strewn about like dirty laundry. The final notes resonate in the stale air. The singer, JESSE TOWNSEND, lean, handsome, 26. Faded jeans and t-shirt. A roll-your-own dangling from the corner of his mouth, curling smoke around his tired smile. He glances at the couch, where JUDD CLAYTON is sprawled out, boots jacked up on the ammo box coffee table. Dirty jeans, sweat-stained shirt. Dark, heavy stubble. Face hooded under the rim of his cowboy hat. Curled up next to him, using his leg as a pillow, is BETSY WORTH. Her flame red hair cascades over his thigh. Jesse pulls something out of his guitar case, wades through broken instruments and unconscious musicians to lay it on Judd's lap. Careful not to wake Betsy, he presses a small object into her hand, closes her fingers on it. He starts out, but stops when Judd murmurs something from under his hat. His voice raspy from whiskey and cigarettes. JUDD What ya call it? JESSE What's that? JUDD The song. JESSE Last Song. JUDD Catchy. Jesse pushes out the screen door, steps into the morning sun. Judd shrinks from the light. A ROOSTER CROWS, "COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!!" Judd grumbles back, “Who asked you?” He sinks back into the couch. After a moment, he peeks out from under his hat at the thing Jesse left on his lap. He stares at it with reverence. Then he looks, with concern, out the screen door. FIVE YEARS LATER... Jesse still gone, presumed to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Judd, the songwriting partner and best friend Jesse walked out on, still damaged, possibly beyond repair. Betsy, the girl he left behind, still working hard to pick up the pieces for herself and for Lucy, her four-year old daughter. And Andrew Bergman, a nerdy, out-of-work, NY film maker, who has stumbled upon a video tape that could bring them all together to confront the ghosts they've been struggling so long to avoid.
PROJECT STATUS: Treatment/Outline/Developing Pilot Script
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