After seeing Wire Jefferson win the Tailored Screenplay Oscar for his work on American Fiction, the broadly acclaimed adaptation of his 2001 novel Erasure, creator Percival Everett has arrange his newest guide, James, at Common Photos, with Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) in talks to direct, Deadline can verify.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Everett will adapt the screenplay and exec produce, alongside Steven Spielberg for Amblin Companions.
A contemporary reimagining of Mark Twain’s basic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn printed by Doubleday in March, James watches because the enslaved Jim overhears that he’s about to be offered to a person in New Orleans, that means that he’ll probably be separated from his spouse and daughter without end. Subsequently, he decides to cover on close by Jackson Island till he can formulate a plan. In the meantime, Huck Finn has faked his personal demise to flee his violent father, lately returned to city. Thus begins the harmful and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River towards the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and past.
Along with being an on the spot New York Occasions bestseller, James was named a “Finest E-book of the 12 months so Far for 2024” by the New York Occasions E-book Evaluation and was named the #1 finest guide of the 12 months to this point by Amazon.
A Distinguished Professor at USC and the creator of greater than 30 books of fiction and poetry, Everett can be identified for works like I Am Not Sidney Poitier, So A lot Blue, Pulitzer Prize finalist Phone, and the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Timber.
Most lately directing the forthcoming sci-fi pic Klara and the Solar, starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, for 3000 Photos, Waititi previous to that helmed the soccer pic Subsequent Aim Wins. The winner of an Oscar for his script to Jojo Rabbit, he’s additionally the co-creator of Apple TV+’s upcoming sequence adaptation of the Terry Gilliam movie Time Bandits, which is slated to premiere on July 24.
Amblin will subsequent see the discharge of Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters, which hits theaters through Common on July 19.
Selection was first to the information of James.