Taika Waititi is in talks to direct an adaptation of Percival Everett's novel 'James' with Steven Spielberg executive producing. Photo / Bang Showbiz
Taika Waititi is in early talks to direct James.
The 48-year-old filmmaker could be set to helm an adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel that will be executive produced by Steven Spielberg for his Amblin Partners company.
James is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told
from the perspective of the slave Jim.
The synopsis reads: “When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan.
”Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. 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.”
