Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to Get CBS Drama
CBS has just given the green-light for the pilot of a new show, "Sawyer & Huck", based on the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain's classic characters will be revisited in a CBS pilot after the network approved of a TV adaptation, "Sawyer & Huck."
The new drama, created by Josh Berman for Sony Pictures TV and CBS, will be a present day twist on Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, the main characters of Twain's two novels.
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Detailing a modern-day reimagining of Tom and Huck as adults in America in the present time, writers, Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis will present the pilot with the same racial and class divides that were present in Twain's books.
In "Sawyer & Huck," a murder case in St. Louis has Tom Sawyer hiring his estranged childhood pal, Huck Finn as an investigator for his legal firm, the pair acting as a last resort solution for clients with nowhere else to turn.
Taking themes from Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the show, to be directed by "Shameless" helmsman, Anthony Hemingway, will focus race and identity issues in the setting of a segregated US. It also borrows from the "Tom Sawyer, Detective" comic sequel where a grown-up Tom tries to solve a murder case with help from his best friend, Huck Finn.
"Sawyer & Huck" will be executive produced by Marc Taylor, Hemingway, Sonnier, and Margolis.
Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have appeared in several screen and television adaptations since the 1917, the most recent, an ABC drama featuring the duo as young adult investigators in a New Orleans steampunk setting in 2012.
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn will also appear in a modern-day crime comedy feature, "Band of Robbers" that's due to hit theaters this summer.
