Deadline reports that Netflix’s highly anticipated upcoming television adaptation of Lord of the Flies had its first trailer released on YouTube. This marks just under one month until the series’ release date of May 4 in the United States.
Watch the trailer below, via Netflix on YouTube.
The limited series is a TV adaptation of William Golding’s 1954 novel of the same name, coming from co-creator of Adolescence and Emmy winner Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials, Enola Holmes). mxdwn reported in March that the series had previously been a BBC iPlayer/BBC One and Stan exclusive before Netflix secured U.S. distribution rights and announced a release date.
As described by Deadline, “innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways. It tells the story of the boys who attempt to remain civil by organizing themselves, led by Ralph (Winston Sawyers; The Crow Girl), who is supported by the group’s intellectual, Piggy (David McKenna; The One Show). However, Jack (Lox Pratt; Harry Potter) challenges his leadership and begins to draw other boys away, sending them on a course from hope to tragedy.”
Also credited in the ensemble along with McKenna, Sawyers, and Pratt, via Deadline, are; Noah and Cassius Flemyng (Planet Coaster 2) as twins Sam and Eric, newcomer Thomas Connor as Roger, newcomer Tom Page-Turner (Rule, Britannia) as Bill, and Cornelius Brandreth (Harry Potter) as Maurice. More than 30 boys are part of the cast – all young actors playing the island’s “biguns” and “littluns.”
Per Deadline, the music in the trailer and throughout the series is credited to Kara Talve (The Simpsons, The Planets) of Bleeding Fingers Music, composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Babygirl, Smile), and Oscar-winner and renowned film composer Hans Zimmer (Prehistoric Planet, Virdee).
The trailer sets the scene for the series with shots from the plane crash that strands the boys on their deserted island, and their tragic descent into crazed castaways. Lord of the Flies challenges morality and human nature versus the wild through the lens of youth and the eyes of young boys in the early 1950s.
Lord of the Flies, as listed by Deadline, is an Eleven and One Shoe Films production backed by Sony Pictures Television. Credited as Director and executive producer is Marc Munden (Utopia, The Sympathizer) alongside writer Jack Thorne (Wonder, The Aeronauts) for One Shoe Films and Jamie Campbell (Gap Year, The Enfield Haunting) and Joel Wilson (Ten Pound Poms, Sex Education) for Eleven.
As stated prior, Lord of the Flies will premiere May 4 in the U.S. on Netflix, as part of their new international additions to their offerings.