The four-part Lord of the Flies, from Adolescence writer Jack Thorne, will hit Netflix on May 4.
The series adapts William Golding’s 1954 novel of the same name, with one episode dedicated to each of the main quartet: Ralph (Winston Sawyers), Jack (Lox Pratt), Piggy (David McKenna) and Simon (Ike Talbut). The infamous novel is the story of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island following a deadly plane crash.
The show first aired on the BBC in the U.K. in February. Marc Munden (The Mark of Cain, National Treasure) directs with music by the Oscar-winning Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve (of Bleeding Fingers Music) and Cristobal Tapia de Veer.
Upon the show’s release, Pratt caught up with The Hollywood Reporter about playing Jack: “When me and Marc started exploring the character, he said he really liked Malcolm McDowell from A Clockwork Orange,” he said about his version of the character. “So I looked at his swagger, and there’s a little bit of Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders [in him], the way he takes up a lot of physical space.” The 14-year-old dives into filming in Malaysia and bonding with his castmates in more depth here.
Thorne is best known for his recent work on Adolescence, but also serves as the president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and penned Harry Potter and the Cursed Child‘s theater show, as well as Enola Holmes and His Dark Materials.
Commissioned by Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama, Lord of the Flies is an Eleven and One Shoe Films production backed by Sony Pictures Television for BBC iPlayer, BBC One and Stan. The executive producers are Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell for Eleven, Jack Thorne for One Shoe Films, Marc Munden, Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC, and Cailah Scobie for Stan.
Lord of the Flies was filmed on location in Malaysia and the U.K.
