Get Ready to Be Stranded: Lord of the Flies Returns to the Big Screen!

A 1954 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding, Lord of the Flies will have a Television Adaptation.

The BBC announced that the Lord of the Flies will have a four-episode adaptation and each episode will be of one hour long. Though many details and cast roles are still unknown and the upcoming series will be written by multi-BAFTA award-winner Jack Thorne.

BBC Drama director Lindsay Salt said about the upcoming series, “We are so excited that Jack Thorne will be adapting such an iconic, timeless, and much-loved novel for television for the very first time – and that the adaptation has been endorsed by the late William Golding’s family. It’s a formidable writing and production team that will bring these definitive characters to life for all generations.”

The series will air on BBC One and play on BBC iPlayer. The book had two film adaptations Lord of the Flies (1990 film) and Lord of the Flies (1963 film). The story is about 30 schoolboys who are Shipwrecked on an island where the behavior of the majority degenerates into savagery.