The first photos have been released from The BBC and Stan’s new four-episode event series adaptation of William Golding’s iconic 1954 novel “Lord of the Flies”.
BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne (“Adolescence,” “His Dark Materials”) is the man behind this new take on the story of a group of British schoolboys who are stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves.
The previously well-educated boys regress to a primitive state – paranoid about an imaginary monster on the island and turning to tribalism and cruelty with several of the more innocent boys of the story killed. The series aims to deep dive into the novel’s themes of human nature, masculinity and lost innocence.
Each of the episodes is titled after a character at the core of the story – Ralph, Piggy, Simon and Jack – and has been made with the support of Golding’s family.
This marks the first time the tale has been adapted directly for television and follows on from two notable film adaptations in 1963 and 1990. The project was shot in Malaysia with the key roles including Winston Sawyers as Ralph, Lox Pratt as Jack, David McKenna as Piggy and Ike Talbut as Simon.
Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell executive produce. Luca Guadagnino was linked to a potential film adaptation in development a few years ago, whilst an abandoned all-female version from 2017 was a direct inspiration for the Showtime series “Yellowjackets”.
