‘Lord of the Flies’ Series Gets Stranded on Netflix This May [Trailer]

Innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways in the first television adaptation of William Golding’s landmark dystopian classic.

I guess we’ll loosely cover Netflix’s fresh adaptation of Lord of the Flies, since it’s horror-tinged and quite brutal in its own right.

When a group of schoolboys crash-lands on a tropical island, their attempts to survive are threatened by the lure of their darkest instincts.

If you liked Send Help and haven’t heard of or read this classic tale, Lord of the Flies also delivers the goods.

Today, we have the trailer, and it’s got everything you’d expect, but delivers a punch through stunning landscapes and visuals. This is somewhat of a summer event, especially for fans of the source material.

Winston Sawyers stars as Ralph, with Lox Pratt as Jack, David McKenna as Piggy, and Ike Talbut as Simon; Thomas Connor appears as Roger, Noah, and Cassius Flemyng 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”.

Adapted for television by Emmy-winning co-creator of Adolescence, Jack Thorne, and directed by Marc Munden (Utopia, National Treasure, Help), Lord of the Flies gets stranded on Netflix May 4th.