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It would be a shame to deny the lasting power of an idea, particularly when it involves a group of kids landing in an unforgiving environment and chaos ensues. Yellowjackets and The Wilds have brought that concept back to life recently, but William Golding‘s 1954 novel “Lord of the Flies” remains the most influential. This spring, it will also be shown on television.

Jack Thorne, who co-created “Adolescence” and the next on-screen version of Lord of the Flies, is the creator of the next on-screen version of Lord of the Flies, so he is familiar with the ‘pre-teen boys gone mad’ thing. The series, which will be presented in four one-hour episodes, was adapted by Thorne and directed by Marc Munden.

Netflix’s official logline: “Innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways in the first television adaptation of William Golding’s landmark dystopian classic.” That’s about the sum of it!

Despite the fact that Golding’s novel has been adapted for the screen before, including three films, this series will be the book’s first time going the TV route, as it has already debuted in the UK.

The cast includes Winston Sawyers as Ralph, Lox Pratt as Jack, David McKenna as Piggy, and Ike Talbut as Simon. Thomas Connor appears as Roger, while Noah and Cassius Flemyng play twins Sam and Eric, Cornelius Brandreth is Maurice, and Tom Page-Turner is Bill. More than 30 boys playing the desert island camp’s “biguns” and “littluns.”

The series executive produced by Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell for Eleven, Thorne for One Shoe Films, and Munden. The series also boasts music from Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve, and Cristobal Tapia de Veer.

The series will drop on Netflix on Monday, May 4.