By Filmmaker Taika Waititi is set to reimagine Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” with his possible next directorial effort “James” for Universal Pictures.
Currently in early negotiations to direct, the film is an adaptation of author Percival Everett’s latest novel – Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure” wad the basis of last year’s film “American Fiction”. Everett himsewlf will write and executive produce.
In the story, an enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever. He hides on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan.
Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
The film retains many set pieces from Twain’s original, but Jim is shown to shine a new light on Jim’s “agency, intelligence and compassion.” Steven Spielberg has also signed on to executive produce with no casting in place as yet.
Source: Variety
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