Tom Drummond Is Dead
A Summary
Logline: A group of young Millennials spend the weekend with the found corpse of a dead rock star who teaches each of them what it’s like to live and die without having to say a word.
A post college grad weekend getaway to a wooded cabin allows 5 remarkably varied college friends the opportunity to unwind and celebrate. An early hike in the woods yields a very unexpected dilemma: a recently dead corpse who just happens to be Tom Drummond, bass player for the world famous band Better Than Ezra.
In a full-on tribute (reboot?) to Weekend at Bernie’s, the grads take the body back to the cabin and proceed to enjoy their weekend while also dearly wondering about the “what, why and who” of their new party guest. As the days in and around the cabin unfold, each sits with and quietly absorbs the often comedic but honest life lessons that Tom has to give. The rock star becomes a mirror of humanity, of generational differences and quiet understandings, of hope and future.
This script comes with a happily alive Tom Drummond attached and his friend Jonathan Silverman, original co-lead of the Weekend at Bernie's films, attached.