By Ben Pearson/July 29, 2019 3:00 pm EST
William Golding’s 1954 novel tells the story of a group of British boys who survive when a plane crashes on an uninhabited island, and it details the power structures that form when the boys try to form a society as they wait to be rescued. It’s a giant allegory about power and the horrors of war and the dangers of operating as a collective, and it’s been required reading in high school English classes for decades. The story was adapted into English-speaking movies in 1963 and 1990, and Lupita A. Concio made a Filipino version in 1975.
If Guadagnino officially signs on, the plan is to “develop a story that stays true to the text but with a contemporary, ultra-kinetic feel.” Interestingly, it seems that another movie has already beaten this to the punch in that regard: a new film called Monos, which debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was hailed as a modern-day Lord of the Flies. Here’s the trailer for that movie:
When WB snagged the rights to this back in 2017, the idea was to remake Lord of the Flies as a female-centric property. That plan has been “scrapped,” Variety says, and this new version will tell the story with a group of boys at the center.
