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Warner Bros. Plans Female-Led 'Lord of the Flies'
Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 30, 2017

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. 

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


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KEYWORDS: hollywood; lordoftheflies; lotf
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To: jiggyboy

Girls are more vicious than boys. It would probably turn out quite grizzly if it ever happened in real life.


21 posted on 08/30/2017 5:59:41 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: SMGFan

22 posted on 08/30/2017 5:59:43 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: SMGFan

Here’s some more to avoid:

“Lord of the Flies is the latest addition to Hollywood’s gender-bending remake streak. Other installments include Splash starring Channing Tatum, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at MGM and an role-swapping Overboard reboot, as well as the upcoming Ocean’s 8 movie.”


23 posted on 08/30/2017 6:00:45 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: SMGFan
Oh, that outta' be a big box office hit.

/s

24 posted on 08/30/2017 6:05:11 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Celerity

and without the boys in the telling of it, the whole thing is just garbage.

= = =

What if these are trans-girls?????


25 posted on 08/30/2017 6:05:33 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: SMGFan

prepubescent nudity and all I’m sure

which makes it sure to win Hollywierd awards


26 posted on 08/30/2017 6:05:51 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Celerity
Boys feel an inherit need to belong to a group. This is a nature thing. Girls do not.

Where did you get that idea? Girls form some of the most obnoxious cliques imaginable.

27 posted on 08/30/2017 6:07:50 PM PDT by piasa
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To: SMGFan

One more addition to the many places I am not going to spend my entertainment dollars.


28 posted on 08/30/2017 6:07:51 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: SMGFan

Sooner or later they might make a good movie version of the book. Too bad it should have been sooner.


29 posted on 08/30/2017 6:08:05 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: SMGFan
Warner Bros. Plans Female-Led 'Lord of the Flies' Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 30, 2017

A movie about the staff of Huffington Post?

30 posted on 08/30/2017 6:09:03 PM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa

“Girls form some of the most obnoxious cliques imaginable.”

For sure.


31 posted on 08/30/2017 6:09:21 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: SMGFan
Completely devoid of any new ideas aren't you Hollywood. That's why we end up with 2 or 3 ‘The hangover’ sequels which was a really dumb movie but hell, it put butts in the seats and that's all they care about.

Well, that and pushing leftist agendas all day long.

32 posted on 08/30/2017 6:13:28 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: SMGFan
No, no, no, no, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

The original one was PERFECT, the remake not good, and this planned for re, remake will utterly and completely RUIN the book and be a stinker of a movie!

33 posted on 08/30/2017 6:14:23 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SMGFan

“Queen of the Qooties”


34 posted on 08/30/2017 6:14:36 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ifinnegan
Is one of the girls going to be called Piggy?

What? Is Rosey O'Donell in it?

35 posted on 08/30/2017 6:15:02 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: SMGFan
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36 posted on 08/30/2017 6:17:14 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: SMGFan

If they had made it into a Comic Book series with a superhero Lord of Flies, it might have had a chance with the low IQ comic book crowd.


37 posted on 08/30/2017 6:17:16 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: SMGFan

Roman Polanski has already put in an advance order for his Blue Ray copy.


38 posted on 08/30/2017 6:17:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

It was already done ( okay, just sort of ) as “HEATHERS”. ;^)


39 posted on 08/30/2017 6:17:39 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Beowulf9
It was a lousy book, that made a lousy movie and now let’s remake it as another lousy movie.

It's a literary masterpiece.

The movie was lousy, as you say. And I'm sure the remake will be even worse.

40 posted on 08/30/2017 6:17:53 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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