The BBC’s Lord of the Flies will be a four-part Stan Original Series now that the Nine-owned Aussie streamer has gotten involved in the project.
Greenlit in 2023, this live-actioner is a BBC co-production with One Shoe Films and Eleven, the British prodco behind hit Netflix series Sex Education and 2022’s BBC drama and Stan Original Series Ten Pound Poms. Sony Pictures Television will distribute Lord of the Flies internationally.
The treatment is reportedly a faithful adaptation of William Golding’s best-selling novel, which tells the tale of a group of boys who become stranded on a tropical island and form their own community, with disastrous consequences.
BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials, Enola Holmes) is writing the scripts, Marc Munden (Help) is directing, and Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer (The Lion King) will co-create an original score with Emmy-nominated Kara Talve (Stan Original Series The Tattooist of Auschwitz) from Bleeding Fingers Music.
Producing the series is Callum Devrell-Cameron (Sex Education), and the EP team consists of Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell for Eleven; Jack Thorne for One Shoe Films; Marc Munden and Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC; and Cailah Scobie and Amanda Duthie for Stan.
BBC iPlayer and BBC One are also backing the series, which has shifted shooting locations from Australia to Malaysia and resumed filming after being put on pause in April for reasons that the BBC has not divulged.
No premiere date has been announced as yet.