Theirs would be at least the third adaptation of “Lord of the Flies,” after a 1963 version and another one in 2000. They first try to work together to survive, but their new society quickly unravels as distrust and violence set in. In an undated interview, the author of the book, William Golding, who died in 1993, said he was often asked why he wrote about boys instead of girls. “If you land with a group of little boys, they are more like scaled-down society than a group of little girls would be. Though many differences between boys and girls tend to be overstated, boys do tend to be more physically aggressive, she said.

Source: New York Times August 31, 2017 17:48 UTC