Overview
- The four-hour limited series will stream in the United States on May 4 on Netflix following its early February premiere on the BBC and BBC iPlayer in the U.K.
- Jack Thorne created and wrote the adaptation with direction by Marc Munden, with both joining Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell as executive producers.
- Produced by Eleven and One Shoe Films with Sony Pictures Television handling distribution, the project originated for the BBC and Australian platform Stan.
- Principal cast features Winston Sawyers as Ralph, Lox Pratt as Jack and David McKenna as Piggy, alongside more than 30 boys portraying the island’s “biguns” and “littluns.”
- Music is by Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve and Cristobal Tapia de Veer, and the production is billed as the first television version of William Golding’s 1954 novel after film adaptations in 1963, 1975 and 1990.