Paramount Pictures is to make a remake of "The Naked Prey," an updated version of its 1961 jungle adventure.
Studio has bought scripter John Heffernan's treatment in a deal worth low- to mid-six figures for Paramount-based MTV Films to produce.
Story involves a group of West Point cadets whose spring break turns deadly when their chartered boat runs aground in Nicaragua, leading to a violent confrontation with hoodlums that leaves a young boy dead. The West Pointers are then pursued through the jungle by henchmen of a cocaine warlord, who blames the cadets for the death of his son.
The original pic starred Cornel Wilde running for his life through the jungles of 19th-century Africa while being pursued by Zulu tribesmen.
"The story is about these surface warfare majors that have only experienced war in the pages of a textbook, who now must draw upon every lesson they've ever learned, as well as upon each other, to somehow survive at the hands of professional assassins in a foreign land," Heffernan said. "It's equal parts 'Deliverance' and 'Black Hawk Down,' a story about a group of guys who receive this trial by fire that they weren't really expecting and the choices they ultimately make."