Netflix is teasing “Lord of the Flies.” Photo courtesy of J Redza/Eleven/Sony Pictures Television
April 6 (UPI) — Netflix is teasing a four-part adaptation of the 1954 classic novel Lord of the Flies.
A trailer released Monday shows English schoolboys panicking as the plane they are on crashes.
“Left to their own devices, the children attempt to handle the terrifying situation with civility, until tribes form and a violent power struggle emerges,” an official synopsis reads.
Jack Thorne, who co-created Adolescence, penned the series, which arrives on the streamer May 4.
“As a society, we’re having a conversation right now about boys. We’re losing a generation of boys, and we’re losing it because of the hate they are ingesting — because it is an answer to their loneliness and isolation,” Thorne told Netflix’s Tudum.
The preview shows the boys navigating complicated power dynamics on the isolated island.
David McKenna, Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, Ike Talbut and Thomas Connor star in the series.
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