The BBC and Stan have revealed the first images from their forthcoming take on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Adapted by Jack Thorne (Adolescence) and directed by Marc Munden (National Treasure), the four-part series is the first for television and has been made with the support of Golding’s family. Check out the pics above and below.
The series is produced by Eleven (Sex Education) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, in co-production with Stan, which will air the drama in Australia. Sony Pictures Television will distribute internationally.
New images show the young cast, many making their professional acting debuts, filming on location in Malaysia. The castaways are played by Winston Sawyers as Ralph, Lox Pratt as Jack, David McKenna as Piggy and Ike Talbut as Simon. Thomas Connor appears as Roger, Noah and Cassius Flemming as twins Sam and Eric, Cornelius Brandreth as Maurice and Tom Page-Turner as Bill – alongside an ensemble of more than 30 boys playing the desert island camp’s “biguns” and “littluns.”
A classic tale first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is the story of a group of young schoolchildren who find themselves stranded on a tropical island following a deadly plane crash. In an attempt to remain civil, the boys organize themselves, led by Ralph and supported by the group’s intellectual, Piggy. But Jack, who is in charge of signal fire duty, is more interested in hunting and vying for leadership and soon begins to draw other boys away from the order of the group and, ultimately, from hope to tragedy.
Thorne’s adaptation is billed as truthful to the original novel – set in the early 1950s on an unnamed Pacific island – and will delve further into the book’s emotive themes; human nature, the loss of innocence and boyhood masculinity.
Each of the episodes is titled after a character at the core of the story – Ralph, Piggy, Simon and Jack.
The Eleven and One Shoe Films production is backed by Sony Pictures Television for BBC iPlayer, BBC One and Stan. Producer is Callum Devrell-Cameron (Sex Education). Executive producers are Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell for Eleven, Thorne for One Shoe Films, Munden, Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC, and Cailah Scobie for Stan.
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