Overview
- All four one-hour episodes will arrive on Netflix in the United States on May 4, following the release of first-look photos.
- The series premiered in early February in the United Kingdom on the BBC and BBC iPlayer.
- Jack Thorne wrote the adaptation, Marc Munden directs, and the production comes from Eleven and One Shoe Films with Sony Pictures Television backing.
- The cast features Winston Sawyers as Ralph, Lox Pratt as Jack, David McKenna as Piggy, and an ensemble of more than 30 boys.
- Filmed in Malaysia, the production used day-for-night infrared techniques to capture night scenes within child-actor working limits, with music by Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve, and Cristobal Tapia de Veer.