The next gender-bending reboot will be “Lord of the Flies,” the famous William Golding novel from 1954 about tween boys whose toxic masculinity gets the best of them after they’re stranded on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. Given “Lord of the Flies” is a story about the savagery of machismo, it’ll take a delicate hand to transpose such dynamics onto a group of prepubescent girls. Maybe it’ll be interesting! The second version, a 1990 update directed by Henry Hook, faced criticism for taking liberties with the source material. Initial reactions on Twitter mostly pointed out that a female “Lord of the Flies” defeats the purpose, because duh.

Source: Huffington Post August 31, 2017 13:41 UTC