The sky is darkening and the beast is close at hand in the “Lord of the Flies” trailer.
Based on William Golding‘s landmark 1954 novel, the dystopian drama limited series streams on Netflix May 4.
The new vision of chaos is created and written by Emmy winner Jack Thorne (“Adolescence,” Enola Holmes), with Marc Munden (“Utopia,” The Secret Garden) directing.
In the four-part series, when a group of English schoolboys crash-lands on a tropical island, their attempts to survive are threatened by the lure of their darkest instincts.
Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, David McKenna, and Ike Talbut star with Thomas Connor, Noah Flemyng, Cassius Flemyng, Cornelius Brandreth, and Tom Page-Turner.
“As a society, we’re having a conversation right now about boys,” Thorne told Netflix. “We’re losing a generation of boys, and we’re losing it because of the hate they are ingesting — because it is an answer to their loneliness and isolation.”
The series features music composed by Hans Zimmer (Dune, The Dark Knight), Kara Talve (“The Simpsons”), and Cristobal Tapia de Veer (“The White Lotus,” Smile).
Backed by Sony Pictures Television, executive producers include Thorne via One Shoe Films, Mund, and Joel Wilson & Jamie Campbell for Eleven (“Sex Education”).
“Lord of the Flies” was first released by the BBC in the UK and Stan in Australia in February.