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Beyond Evil: New Adaptation Explores Lord of the Flies' Complexity
3 Feb
Summary
- Screenwriter Jack Thorne adapts Golding's Lord of the Flies into a four-part BBC series.
- Thorne views the story as a tender portrait of boys, focusing on lost control and self.
- The series offers character perspectives, showing cruelty alongside fragility and love.
Screenwriter Jack Thorne, deeply impacted by William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" since childhood, is bringing the classic novel to life as a four-part BBC series. Thorne, who previously explored complex masculinity in his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning series "Adolescence," perceives "Lord of the Flies" as a "remarkably tender portrait" of young boys facing loss of control.
This new adaptation aims to delve beyond the surface-level interpretation of the "evilness of boys," highlighting their cruelty as well as their fragility. Director Marc Munden hopes the series will illuminate how situations can "go badly wrong" and expose human fallibility.
