Driver for the Dead 1

Alabaster Graves is a driver for the dead. As a twenty-year veteran of funeral homes, mortuaries, and coroners' offices across the deep South, he has chauffeured hundreds of bodies to their final resting places, although the trip isn't always so restful. Graves is a "specialty driver", one who's called in for the more unusual assignments that come down the pike, and if unusual equals dangerous, well, that's just a job that pays more. Matter of fact, that's just what Alabaster is about to get when the assignment to transport the body of renowned voodoo priest, Mose Freeman, drops in his lap. With Freeman's sultry granddaughter riding shotgun, Alabaster must cover the distance from Shreveport to New Orleans to retrieve the remains. What he doesn't know is that he's being pursued by a resurrectionist named Fallow - a necromancer who gets his power from stealing body parts... and for whom the corpse of Mose Freeman would be the ultimate prize.

John Heffernan grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. Upon graduating, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked at USC Film School for three years as a Production Coordinator for graduate and undergraduate student films. After working as a development assistant for Davis Entertainment and Dreamworks-based Patchwork Productions, John sold his first script, A Chance for Both Barrels, in 1999 to Ignite Entertainment, now a division of Lion's Gate. This was followed by numerous writing jobs including a development deal with MTV Films and the New Line release Snakes on a Plane in 2006.