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Scooping up one of the plummiest bits of soggy public domain driftwood to collect down here on the ollll’ Hollywood delta, then fashioning it into a makeshift raft to float down the ollll’ rebootin' river, Paramount has begun developing a “21st-century makeover” for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, because Mark Twain is really, really dead and can’t say shit about it. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes producers Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark have picked up a spec script from newcomer Andy Burg titled Huck And Tom, which The Hollywood Reporter describes as “a re-imagining in the vein ...

There have been several versions of Mark Twain’s classic teen characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on screens both big and small. But while they’ve mostly maintained Twain’s 19th century adventure seekers as boys, Paramount is thinking differently, picking up Andrew Burg’s Huck And Tom.While the plot is being kept buried in the swamps for now, the Heat Vision Blog dug up that it’ll re-imagine the duo as adults, and upping the stakes a la Snow White And The Huntsman. Oh, and they’ll deal with “supernatural elements.” So might we see Sawyer and Finn facing down ghosts? Werewolves? Monsters? The dread shade of Injun Joe?Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes producers Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark are on board to develop the script, with Bedtimes Stories writer Matt Lopez also helping to shepherd it to the screen.Given the devoted following...