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'Sawyer & Huck' TV Series News, Update: Story Based on Mark Twain Characters Gets the PPC from CBS

"Sawyer & Huck," the modern-day adaptation of the classic and popular tales from the American novelist, Mark Twain, has been given by CBS the put pilot commitment, Deadline.com reported.

According to the publication, the project was penned by "The Blacklist" scribes Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier and was spearheaded by Sony Pictures TV and "Drop Dead Diva" creator Josh Bernman. The pair, along with Bernman and Mark Taylor, will executive produce the series.

As further divulged by the media outlet, "Sawyer & Huck" is a "reimagining of the iconic characters of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as adults in modern day America." The setting "harkens back to the racial and class divides that inspired Mark Twain's books."

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The plot, as told by Deadline, finds Sawyer hiring his "previously estranged boyhood friend Huck Finn as an investigator" after a murder case happened in St. Louis. The reunited friends are on their way to establishing the legal firm which seeks to serve those people "who don't have anywhere else to turn."

The series imbues the two characteristics of Twain's novels, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which tackles on the issues of race and identity in the earlier days of America, as well as its sequel titled "Tom Sawyer, Detective," which saw the two friends teaming up to solve a murder case.

This won't be the first time that the well-loved Mississippi boys are brought to the screen. Back in 1985, ABC made a "movie of the week" type of adaptation starring Drew Barrymore as Con Sawyer in "The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn." Actor Elijah Wood also starred in the 1993 film, "The Adventures of Huck Finn." And just recently, Val Kilmer appeared as the author himself.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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