Drama series Lord of The Flies is set to release on May 4 on Netflix.
Based on William Golding’s namesake dystopian 1954 classic, the four-episode show follows a group of English schoolboys who become stranded on an uninhabited island, following a plane crash.
Left to their own devices, the children attempt to handle the terrifying situation with civility. 
Eventually, they turn to savagery, as tribes form and a violent power struggle emerges.
Screenwriter Jack Thorne expressed that the television adaptation’s timing couldn’t be more pertinent. 
Upon re-reading the book, he was struck by the ‘tender portrait’ of a group of boys having a complicated relationship with their status and anger.
“As a society, we’re having a conversation right now about boys,” he said in an interview.
“We’re losing a generation of boys, and we’re losing it because of the hate they are ingesting – because it is an answer to their loneliness and isolation,” he added. Jack hopes his adaptation will offer viewers the chance to re-examine William’s writing in a new and urgent light.
“I hope it takes people back to the book, and I hope it allows people to lean into what the book really is, in my opinion – a difficult and dangerous account of who we are and what we’re capable of.”
The series had an initial release in the UK and Australia in February, and was met with critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it earned a score of 81 out of 100, and was described as a ‘first-class example of an adaptation done right’.