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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: ifinnegan

Miss Piggy!


81 posted on 08/30/2017 7:13:43 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Flycatcher

I understand now what it meant but I still hate those books I read.

At such a young age we were full of the joy of life, happy and enjoying the fun of youth. I never have felt those ‘lessons’ were of any use whatsoever except to cause me disgust and depression as I read them.

I especially hated the Red Pony.

I still harbor a resentment of that whole thinking process of the academia. Forced to put into my mind these just awful things, more like poison than art.


82 posted on 08/30/2017 7:14:24 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SMGFan

And they will lesbians of color of course


83 posted on 08/30/2017 7:14:36 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: SMGFan

I’ll wait for the DVD!


84 posted on 08/30/2017 7:15:03 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: SMGFan
And Hollywood wants to know why the summer movie season was bad...a black King Arthur, remakes and movies based on TV shows. Short Hollywood if you want to make money on the movie industry....😀
85 posted on 08/30/2017 7:16:58 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: canalabamian

We get to watch women behave like men. But the 80 pound ninja women on shows like Arrow take rooms full of guys out in six blows without breathing hard or losing their makeup. The male heroes can’t win a fight and often lay on the ground being pummeled in the face. It is just horrible the feminist drivel that passes for television.


86 posted on 08/30/2017 7:20:57 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: SMGFan

Sounds like yet another box office winner.


87 posted on 08/30/2017 7:27:00 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Beowulf9
Yeah. I suppose the intent is noble to introduce children to complex literary works, but usually it's all for naught. Some books are just not made for children and the attempt shouldn't be made.

I remember reading some Shakespeare as a kid and hating it. But after rereading his plays as a young adult, I enjoyed them. I still hate Titus Andronicus though. Haha!

88 posted on 08/30/2017 7:27:46 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: Flycatcher
Well put. And Lord of the Flies is singularly brilliant in this way.

The Lord of the Flies is also a book that illustrates the importance of parents and the necessity of strong families in the raising of boys.

A society without its foundation built around the strong traditional family is a society destined to degenerate in to the model that the book shows us.

And that is the society our Leftist Democrats is trying to build; a Godless society in which the government replaces the family.

Our inner cities are a sneak preview of our future. Decades of Democratic Party rule in Chicago has given us The Lord of the Flies on an epic scale.

89 posted on 08/30/2017 7:31:45 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: RoosterRedux

Apparently statistics show that a gay man couple is much more enduring than a lesbian couple.

Lesbians can get quite violent with each other. I had a young lesbian staff member working in my office who discovered her girlfriend had another girlfriend and there was an enormous amount of rage emanating from my worker.

She eventually had to leave due to being totally dysfunctional.


90 posted on 08/30/2017 7:31:46 PM PDT by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: Pontiac
Yes. The Right sees Lord of the Flies as a cautionary tale.

The Left sees it as an instruction manual.

91 posted on 08/30/2017 7:35:06 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 female led Ghostbusters sure worked out well - not......
92 posted on 08/30/2017 7:37:54 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Flycatcher

I always liked Shakespeare. We did read that too.


93 posted on 08/30/2017 7:40:03 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SMGFan

Actually, this makes quite a bit of sense. Women are capable of far more savagery than men. I believe this is probably a more accurate depiction Fielding’s novel than a bunch of la-di-da boys.


94 posted on 08/30/2017 7:42:23 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: EdnaMode
Because the female Ghostbusters reboot was a smash hit! :P

Exactly right.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ghostbusters2016.htm

Production Budget: $144 million

Total Lifetime Grosses:

Domestic: $128,350,574.....56.0%
+ Foreign: $100,796,935.....44.0%
= Worldwide: $229,147,509

95 posted on 08/30/2017 7:44:48 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Flycatcher
The Left sees it as an instruction manual.

Yes, all of their rhetoric is about how they want to protect the weak in socity from the strong and yet all of their policies do the exact opposite.

They want to take firearms away from the law abiding and leave them at the mercy of those who would never obey the law.

The constantly write law that puts more power in the hands of government (how much stronger does government need to be) and takes it away from parents.

96 posted on 08/30/2017 7:44:58 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: SMGFan

Yet another Hollyweird bomb.


97 posted on 08/30/2017 8:00:40 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: nopardons
Already been done..
98 posted on 08/30/2017 8:03:52 PM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Oratam
Did you read the book or see the original film ?

"WOMEN" ?

The book is about boys from around the age of 6 to 12 or 13.

They are well educated, well looked after, very privileged ( except for Piggy ), used to VERY structured lives, who are, all of a sudden, set adrift...sans, parents, sans teachers, sans rules, sans safety, and it all takes place in the 1940s or early 1950s!

If this gets transposed to today, with little girls, and we're supposed to believe ( if the story line follows the book )that today's girls would know about parliamentary procedures, Robert's Rules, spear fishing and/or hunting, devolve into a wild, tribal ( along with face painting ) savages, with only one of them "soft" enough to worry and/or take care of the little ones, that's way beyond anything believable! And besides which, it just isn't going to work in any way at all.

99 posted on 08/30/2017 8:04:13 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Pontiac

You just nailed it!


100 posted on 08/30/2017 8:04:49 PM PDT by nopardons
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