BBC‘s Lord of the Flies adaptation has a new trailer and it’s clear that this all ends in friendship, right?
Following two lauded film versions, William Golding’s iconic 1954 novel has been adapted for TV by Jack Thorne (Adolescence) and Marc Munden (The Mark of Cain), following a group of students stranded on an island in the Pacific after a plane crash. And there’s no grown-ups.
The White Lotus composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer has scored the series while none other than Hans Zimmer wrote the series’ main theme and additional music with Kara Talve.
The four-episode miniseries stars an ensemble of over 30 boys, many of whom are making their screen debuts — and this is a famously violent story. Each episode is named after their characters; Winston Sawyers plays leader Ralph, Lox Pratt plays rival Jack, with David McKenna as Piggy and Ike Talbut as Simon.
If you loved Yellowjackets, get acquainted with the disturbing classic that inspired it.
All episodes of Lord of the Flies will be on BBC iPlayer Feb. 8. U.S. dates TBC.
