Netflix has acquired U.S. rights to Jack Thorne’s Lord of the Flies adaptation from Sony Pictures Television.
The series, written by Thorne (Adolescence, His Dark Materials, Enola Holmes) is produced by Eleven (Sex Education, Ten Pound Poms), and directed by BAFTA-winner Marc Munden (Utopia, National Treasure, Help).
The U.S. sale leads a wave of distribution deals in territories across EMEA, LATAM, and APAC. The epic four-part series launched on the BBC in the UK and Stan Australia on February 8.
SPT has now finalised new licensing agreements which will see Lord of the Flies come to Sky (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy), CBC (English Canada), Radio-Canada (French Canada), TVNZ (New Zealand), Syn (Iceland), U-NEXT (Japan), Yes (Israel), Globoplay (Brazil), Telia (Estonia), Telia Play (Lithuania), Tet+ (Latvia), and on HBO and HBO Max (across Central and Eastern Europe and Poland), and beIN (across the Middle East and North Africa). Additional deals including further major European territories will be announced soon.
The 4×60’ series is the first-ever television adaptation of William Golding’s classic novel.
“Jack Thorne’s contemporary take on this timeless story is, in one word: powerful. This first-ever television adaptation of theiconic novel delivers on every level, including its cinematic scope and transportive music, and we are thrilled with theincredible response that we have seen from buyers in every market,” said Mike Wald, Co-President, Distribution & Networks, SPT.
Lord of the Flies, first published by Faber for what was then an unknown author, has become one of the most popular books on the English curriculum for the last 70 years. William Golding won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
The series is an Eleven and One Shoe Films production backed by SPT for BBC iPlayer, BBC One and Stan. The series is written by Jack Thorne, directed by Marc Munden, and produced by Callum Devrell-Cameron (Sex Education, Hanna). Series composer is Cristobal Tapia de Veer, with main theme and additional music from Hans Zimmer and Kara Talve. The executive producers are Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell for Eleven, Jack Thorne for One Shoe Films, Marc Munden, Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC, and Cailah Scobie and Amanda Duthie for Stan.
Jon Creamer
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