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

In my experience girls can be every bit as brutal and savage to each other as boys.

There social rules are somewhat different but if you are different and outside the group you will be hounded are savaged until you either driven away or somehow manage to fit in to the group or become a member of another group that offers some protection.

Loners are not tolerated unless they are strong enough to defend themselves.

The human animal is not something you want to turn your back on; male or female.

If they made this movie I hope they got a good sociologist (and not a politically correct one) to consult on the movie. If some writer just adapted the book with female characters they probably fowled it up.

Doing some time in the inner cities studying female gangs would be helpful.

41 posted on 08/30/2017 6:17:59 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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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.

I Agree completely. As a man who has made a good effort to read most of the classics, I've never understood what people see in this book and the movie's are even worse.

42 posted on 08/30/2017 6:19:00 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Beowulf9
It is a GREAT book, and the original film is a GREAT movie, with a word for word and action for action the same as the book.

The remake wasn't good.

43 posted on 08/30/2017 6:19:27 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SMGFan

Since I have never seen the first “Lord of the Flies” a female-lead in a remake really doesn’t mean much to me.

There are so few good actors these days, and there have not been many original movie ideas in Hollywood in decades I don’t really watch many movies anymore.


44 posted on 08/30/2017 6:20:06 PM PDT by txnativegop (Socialism -- an evil created by ignorant a-holes!)
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To: ifinnegan
Is one of the girls going to be called Piggy?

Lena Dun-ham.

45 posted on 08/30/2017 6:20:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: Skywise

You have a thing for 12 year old and much younger, 1/2 naked girls?


46 posted on 08/30/2017 6:20:21 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Flycatcher

I know they consider it a literary masterpiece and I guess it is but when they made us read it in jr hs along with so many other pessimistic, depressing, negative books well, I just feel there was some pandering to a certain outlook on life by liberals at the time who thought it was the mark of superiority to be extremely shocking and negative.

I don’t care to be manipulated by an author who seeks to shock me and sits back and waits for applause as if that was the mark of his genius.


47 posted on 08/30/2017 6:21:18 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SMGFan
Image result for 'Lord of the Flies'
48 posted on 08/30/2017 6:21:49 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

How about Fiddler on the Roof..?

With an all-black cast, I mean.


49 posted on 08/30/2017 6:22:42 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: SMGFan
If one thinks boys are scary...just imagine girls in the same position.

I think most men can identify...women are a magnitude greater in scariness. Their feral ferocity is light years beyond that of men.

Imagine a shoe sale on Saturday afternoon.

50 posted on 08/30/2017 6:22:48 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Flycatcher

The original BLACK & WHITE movie was terrific; the remake, in color was lousy!


51 posted on 08/30/2017 6:25:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

If they film it the way they did the last time they did it with the boys it’ll be 18 year olds.

It’ll be the only way this thing sells.


52 posted on 08/30/2017 6:25:36 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Pontiac

Lord of the Thighs


53 posted on 08/30/2017 6:25:42 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: SMGFan

dilligaf?

In it for the cash. Smoke them like a fish.


54 posted on 08/30/2017 6:25:53 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Bullish

You can find plenty of films about only girls marooned alone on an island but they are not appropriate for this forum. “Make Love not War” indeed.


55 posted on 08/30/2017 6:27:08 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: SMGFan

You just know there’s going to be a tender lesbian scene. Or maybe a transgendered boy in with the girls.


56 posted on 08/30/2017 6:27:21 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

57 posted on 08/30/2017 6:27:43 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: Scrambler Bob

“What if these are trans-girls?????”

Are you kidding me ? Any one of us could go to PRISON for not assuming they are !


58 posted on 08/30/2017 6:28:11 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: piasa

Maybe there is a difference between Clique, Group and Organization ?


59 posted on 08/30/2017 6:28:54 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: SMGFan
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.

Remember this?

Receptionist: How do you write women so well?

Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

60 posted on 08/30/2017 6:28:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
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