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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: SMGFan

actually, its called the PTA or HOA.


61 posted on 08/30/2017 6:29:49 PM PDT by SpirituTuo
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To: Beowulf9
That could be the problem. You read it in junior high. That's way too young to understand many of the themes of the book, not least of which is the innate savagery of the human animal when suddenly all morality -- and all the enforcers of morality -- disappear.

I think the ending is spectacular: morality (suggested through a distant ship) seems to be returning, and the savage heart (the children) experience waves of regret, contrition, even terror.

Golding won the Nobel Prize for Literature (when it meant something) for this work alone. It's a masterpiece.

62 posted on 08/30/2017 6:32:32 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: SMGFan

wonder if it will be as big a hit as the rebooted all-female “Ghost Busters”?


63 posted on 08/30/2017 6:33:16 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Bullish
Please permit me to exp,lain it to you....

Until this book, upper middle class/middle class children were NEVER before portrayed as being crude, nasty, tribal, nor savages. The book isn't just an "adventure story"; it is a look at the psychological devastation that takes place when a group of usually well behaved, well educated, well looked after children are deprived of adult supervision, care, and rules...left completely to their own devices.

And the thing is...deep down, children really ARE savages, capable of horrid, vile, disgusting behavior. It is society that once kept that at bay; especially for the type of Brit kids who went to public ( what they call private boarding schools )school, at the time, and before that, when the book takes place.

64 posted on 08/30/2017 6:34:13 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SMGFan
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65 posted on 08/30/2017 6:36:21 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

"what could POSSIBLY go wrong?"

66 posted on 08/30/2017 6:36:41 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SMGFan
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67 posted on 08/30/2017 6:36:53 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: Skywise

“Young women... half naked... animalistic... Might be worth a look..”

it’s already been done, in 1966: “One Million Years, B.C.”, one of the worst movies every made.


68 posted on 08/30/2017 6:36:56 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Skywise
The stupid remake didn't use a completely older cast.

And to use older actresses, won't work at all.

The book and original film is the ONLY way the story makes any sense at all.

69 posted on 08/30/2017 6:37:23 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Enchante
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70 posted on 08/30/2017 6:37:59 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

They could call it “Mistress of the Midges”


71 posted on 08/30/2017 6:40:24 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Beowulf9; 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.

Actually those books fit well in to a classic liberal arts education.

Except that modern education leaves out the most important part of a Classic Liberal Arts Education; God and Religion.

In the past these books would have been taught in the context of civilization and the root of civilization that is God. God’s rule makes civilization possible.

Without God civilization falls in to might equals right, the strong survive and the rest fall to will of the strong or perish.

The teaching of these books are worse than useless without that background.

These books are the cautionary tales of what the world is like without God.

And unfortunately the Left is hell bent on taking us there.

72 posted on 08/30/2017 6:42:27 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: ETL
Maryanne and Ginger lose control
73 posted on 08/30/2017 6:43:20 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: piasa
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74 posted on 08/30/2017 6:43:39 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: catnipman
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75 posted on 08/30/2017 6:45:34 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: Pontiac
These books are the cautionary tales of what the world is like without God.

Well put. And Lord of the Flies is singularly brilliant in this way.

76 posted on 08/30/2017 6:46:12 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: SMGFan

The reason for this is simple. Girls pay to see movies at the cinema. Boys watch them for free on the Interwebs.

You cater to the paying customers.


77 posted on 08/30/2017 6:46:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be called liberalism." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Enchante

Good lawdy!


78 posted on 08/30/2017 6:47:01 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

What are they going to call it? Lady of the Flies? Doesn’t sound very inviting.


79 posted on 08/30/2017 6:49:26 PM PDT by far sider
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80 posted on 08/30/2017 6:57:20 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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