08-31-2017 , 10:48 PM
http://time.com/4922908/all-girl-lord-of...reactions/ Angus Burgin, James Badge Dale, Everado Elizondo, Chris Furrh, Braden MacDonald, Brian Matthews, Zane Rockenbaugh, Shawn Skie, and Martin Zentz in Lord of the Flies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
ENTERTAINMENT
The Internet Is Not Impressed With the All-Girl 'Lord of the Flies' Remake
Rachel Lewis
8:00 AM ET
Lord of the Flies is a story that most of us read in school. A group of boys get deserted on a tropical island, choose a leader, accidentally set fire to the dead jungle, miss their chance to get rescued, bully each other, battle and commit murder.
The book earned its author, William Golding, a Nobel Prize and has since been adapted to theater and stage. But now two male directors, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, have a deal with Warner Bros to write and direct a new version with one important twist: it will be a female-centric remake.
McGehee told Deadline that the subject matter "is aggressively suspenseful, and taking the opportunity to tell it in a way it hasn’t been told before, with girls rather than boys, is that it shifts things in a way that might help people see the story anew. It breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression."
ENTERTAINMENT
The Internet Is Not Impressed With the All-Girl 'Lord of the Flies' Remake
Rachel Lewis
8:00 AM ET
Lord of the Flies is a story that most of us read in school. A group of boys get deserted on a tropical island, choose a leader, accidentally set fire to the dead jungle, miss their chance to get rescued, bully each other, battle and commit murder.
The book earned its author, William Golding, a Nobel Prize and has since been adapted to theater and stage. But now two male directors, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, have a deal with Warner Bros to write and direct a new version with one important twist: it will be a female-centric remake.
McGehee told Deadline that the subject matter "is aggressively suspenseful, and taking the opportunity to tell it in a way it hasn’t been told before, with girls rather than boys, is that it shifts things in a way that might help people see the story anew. It breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression."