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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. 

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; lordoftheflies; lotf
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Young Girls Gone Wild ? /s
1 posted on 08/30/2017 5:47:11 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Very original. /s


2 posted on 08/30/2017 5:48:38 PM PDT by canalabamian
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To: SMGFan

Is one of the girls going to be called Piggy?


3 posted on 08/30/2017 5:49:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SMGFan

You’ve come a long way, Baby, as the Virginia Slims commercial said.

This is not art.


4 posted on 08/30/2017 5:50:09 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SMGFan

I saw where movie attendance is at a 25 year low. Ouch!


5 posted on 08/30/2017 5:51:15 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SMGFan

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.


6 posted on 08/30/2017 5:52:04 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SMGFan

It was a lousy book, that made a lousy movie and now let’s remake it as another lousy movie.


7 posted on 08/30/2017 5:52:09 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SMGFan

Young women... half naked... animalistic...

Might be worth a look...


8 posted on 08/30/2017 5:52:19 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: SMGFan

A lot of pillow fights would be a nice angle.


9 posted on 08/30/2017 5:52:39 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: SMGFan

Because the female Ghostbusters reboot was a smash hit! :P


10 posted on 08/30/2017 5:52:47 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SMGFan

Go into any office where there are nothing but women and you already have the Lord of the Flies.


11 posted on 08/30/2017 5:53:14 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: canalabamian

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.


12 posted on 08/30/2017 5:53:36 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: canalabamian

Tell me about it, originality today is as rare as logic in a leftist.


13 posted on 08/30/2017 5:54:32 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: SMGFan

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.


14 posted on 08/30/2017 5:55:42 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: SMGFan

Oh, sort of a film version like every gathering of females becomes. They all eventually turn on each other.


15 posted on 08/30/2017 5:56:12 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hhate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: SMGFan

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.


16 posted on 08/30/2017 5:57:53 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: SMGFan

All having “that time of the month” at the same time?


17 posted on 08/30/2017 5:58:19 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

‘How to stuff a wild bikini’ perhaps.


18 posted on 08/30/2017 5:58:20 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SMGFan

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?


19 posted on 08/30/2017 5:58:36 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: wardaddy

Girl power.


20 posted on 08/30/2017 5:59:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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