Netflix acquires Jack Thorne’s Lord of the Flies adaptation

Netflix has scooped the US rights to Sony Pictures Television’s limited drama series Lord of the Flies.

The Jack Thorne penned drama debuted on BBC1 on the 8 February to an audience of 2m overnight and was directed by Bafta winner Marc Munden for a four-part series. It also launched on Stan Australia.

Thorne has previously been behind Netflix hit Adolescence as well as drama Toxic Town for the streaming platform.

The US sale leads a plethora of distribution deals in territories across EMEA, LATAM and APAC with SPT finalising licensing agreements in 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).

The 4 x 60-minute series is the first-ever TV adaptation of William Goldring’s classic novel and tells the story of a group of young boys who find themselves stranded on a tropical island.

The series is an Eleven and One Shoe Films production, backed by SPT for BBC iPlayer, BBC1 and Stan.