Published Mar 18, 2026, 4:38 PM EDT
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Jack Thorne and Netflix have been a match made in heaven so far. Last year, the His Dark Materials writer took over the platform with his and Stephen Graham's acclaimed limited series Adolescence, which became one of the streamer's most viewed English-language shows ever and earned an impressive eight Emmys. Just before that, he also delivered the legal drama Toxic Town, starring Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood in a story of mothers trying to hold accountable the people responsible for their home's rash of children born with disabilities. It was just confirmed last month, too, that the two parties would be joining forces yet again to bring Thorne's BBC series adaptation of Lord of the Flies to U.S. audiences.
A telling of William Golding’s landmark 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies follows a group of young boys who, after a plane crash, find themselves stranded on a tropical island and forced to learn how to survive. To keep everyone from falling into chaos, Ralph (Winston Sawyers) attempts to organize his fellow kids with a little help from "Piggy" (David McKenna), the brains of the group. However, their new makeshift society is put to the test when Jack (Lox Pratt) begins rebelling against his leadership and drawing more boys under his banner, pitting everyone against each other and sending them all on a path towards tragedy. Initially undated, Netflix has now grabbed the conch shell to make an important announcement about the adaptation's stateside release.
Lord of the Flies has officially been dated for a May 4 premiere, leaving less than two months until it arrives. Thorne penned the limited series while The Sympathizer's Marc Munden directed all four one-hour episodes. In addition to Sawyers, McKenna, and Pratt, the show boasts an ensemble cast of over 30 boys to portray the "biguns" and "littluns" trapped together on the island in the Pacific. Ike Talbut, Thomas Connor, Cornelius Brandreth, Tom Page-Turner, and twins Noah and Cassius Flemyng are among the others starring.
Release Date March 13, 2025
Network Netflix
Directors Philip Barantini
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