Huck Finn And Tom Sawyer Are Being REBOOTED With SUPERNATURAL Elements. PoMo Facepalm.

Our culture is such that when you tell me that Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are getting rebooted, I don”t bat an eye. Despite using the term “reboot” with classic fucking characters is fucking insane. When you tell me that these characters are also going to be adults and the reboot  contains supernatural elements…I just nod.

Slashfilm:

Given the sort of scripts studios have been buying recently, I can’t really fault a screenwriter for figuring that the couple months it takes to write a spec script “updating” classic characters and adding unrelated wild elements might be time well spent. Because while crazy stuff has been selling, from our perspective what are the chances that a studio is really going to buy Huck and Tom, a script in which Mark Twain‘s characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are adults in a “re-imagining of the classic duo in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman,” with “supernatural elements.”?

Oh. Crap. Paramount bought it. Andrew Burg wrote the script – and I haven’t read it, maybe it is quite good – and Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Oblivion) are producing it with Matt Lopez (story and co-writer on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice). This is just getting going, and it seems like one of those projects that could easily languish in development for a long time, if not forever.

I have no idea if this shiz will be good or bad. I just know I’m not surprised.