FIRST LOOK AT THE STAN ORIGINAL ​
​LORD OF THE FLIES, ​
​JACK THORNE’S ADAPTATION OF THE GLOBAL BEST-SELLING NOVEL

From Adolescence screenwriter Jack Thorne and BAFTA-winning director Marc Munden comes the highly anticipated first television adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

October 10 2025 - One of the most popular books of the last 70 years is headed to the screen, as Stan and the BBC release the first images from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, adapted for television by multi-BAFTA award winners, writer Jack Thorne (Adolescence, Stan Original The Hack) and director Marc Munden (Help, The Sympathizer). Produced by Eleven (Ten Pound Poms, Sex Education), Sony Pictures Television will distribute the series internationally.

New images show the young cast, many of them making their professional acting debuts, filming on location in Malaysia. The castaways are played by Winston Sawyers as Ralph, Lox Pratt as Jack, David McKenna as Piggy and Ike Talbut as Simon. Thomas Connor appears as Roger, Noah and Cassius Flemming as twins Sam and Eric, Cornelius Brandreth as Maurice and Tom Page-Turner as Bill – alongside an ensemble of more than 30 boys playing the desert island camp’s “biguns” and “littluns”.

Lord of the Flies is the story of a group of young schoolchildren who find themselves stranded on a tropical island with no adults, following a deadly plane crash. In an attempt to remain civil, the boys organise themselves, led by Ralph and supported by the group’s intellectual, Piggy. ​ But Jack, who is in charge of signal fire duty, is more interested in hunting and vying for leadership and soon begins to draw other boys away from the order of the group and, ultimately, from hope to tragedy.

Jack Thorne’s adaptation will be the first for television. Truthful to the original novel – set in the early 1950s on an unnamed Pacific island – Thorne’s adaptation delves further into the book’s emotive themes; human nature, the loss of innocence and boyhood masculinity. Each of the four episodes is titled after a character at the core of the story – Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack – offering a subtly different perspective on the boys’ collective plight and manner in which they cope with their predicament. The series has been made with the support of Lord of the Flies author William Golding’s family.

Commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, Lord of the Flies (4x60) is an Eleven and One Shoe Films production backed by Sony Pictures Television 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). 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 for Stan.

The Stan Original Lord of the Flies is coming soon, only on Stan. ​ 

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