New Regency appears to have won the rights to the much talked about real life story of a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island on their own for over a year in 1965. A low seven-figure deal is in final negotiations, with life and book rights also being chased, and the project will be setup as a feature film.
The Guardian posted the story last week, a preview of Rutger Bregman’s new book “Humankind” which follows the “real life Lord of the Flies” tale of six boys who had been found in 1965 on an uninhabited rocky islet at the very southern end of the Pacific archipelago of Tonga – rescued by an Australian sea captain after being marooned for around 15 months.
Unlike William Golding’s novel though, these boys hadn’t turned savage – instead they’d come up with a system that worked and managed to survive with minimal fighting or hostility.
New Regency beat out the likes of MGM and Netflix to snag the deal.
Source: Deadline
