Posted on 08/30/2017 5:47:11 PM PDT by SMGFan
The William Golding novel is being adapted once again, this time by a male writing-directing duo. Warner Bros. is planning a gender-bent adaptation of the iconic William Golding novel Lord of the Flies.
Scott McGehee and David Siegel will write and direct the new take on the story, which follows a group of young boarding school students that end up stranded on an island and devolve into pre-pubescent savages over the course of the novel. Harry Hook directed a 1990 version of the story, while a 1963 feature was helmed by Peter Brook.
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Very original. /s
Is one of the girls going to be called Piggy?
You’ve come a long way, Baby, as the Virginia Slims commercial said.
This is not art.
I saw where movie attendance is at a 25 year low. Ouch!
Although it would be an interesting angle and could certainly be done well, but it would be shut down by feminists, unless they re-write the island to become a feminist utopia.
It was a lousy book, that made a lousy movie and now let’s remake it as another lousy movie.
Young women... half naked... animalistic...
Might be worth a look...
A lot of pillow fights would be a nice angle.
Because the female Ghostbusters reboot was a smash hit! :P
Go into any office where there are nothing but women and you already have the Lord of the Flies.
Joss Whedon can write it he has written about a lot of roles with strong women. Buffy, Willow, Darla, Tara , Cordelia, Amy , Faith etc. And all of the potentials.
Tell me about it, originality today is as rare as logic in a leftist.
I guess they didn’t learn from the debacle that was the remake of Ghostbusters. Then again, they never learn as they think if it is done enough times it will become acceptable.
Oh, sort of a film version like every gathering of females becomes. They all eventually turn on each other.
There were two things about the book (and movie) that are male-specific.
Boys will do these things. Girls will not.
Boys feel an inherit need to belong to a group. This is a nature thing. Girls do not.
When the kids start to act out, the girls will first say “Screw you” and go somewhere far away. The other girls will say nasty things about them.
Boys will do whatever is necessary to stay with the group, and will follow their leader much more willingly. This was the heart of the book - and without the boys in the telling of it, the whole thing is just garbage.
All having “that time of the month” at the same time?
‘How to stuff a wild bikini’ perhaps.
Isn’t that sexist of Hollywood? Can’t they be boys self-identifying as girls? Or girls who have had a sex change to be boys self-identifying back as girls... or something?
And, while I’m at it, can’t that bunch of leftist Hollywood scum come up with ANYTHING that isn’t a remake or a stupid comic book?
Girl power.
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