The miniseries from the creator of 'Adolescence' that will make you rethink childhood

BarcelonaA group of children between 5 and 12 years old are lost and isolated on a tropical island after surviving a plane crash. Without adults to control them or pre-established rules, they try to govern themselves, but reality sets in: violence always finds a crack to slip through and inequalities always make their presence felt. This is the premise of The Lord of the Flies, William Golding's dystopian novel from 1954 that now arrives in miniseries format on Movistar Plus+. Behind the production, which bears the BBC's seal, is Jack Thorne, co-creator of Adolescence, the Netflix miniseries that also revolves around how young people are swept up by violence and rage.

At the miniseries' presentation, Thorne highlighted the connection between Golding's text and the current moment experienced by children and young people worldwide. "I think, as a society, we are talking a lot right now about boys. We are losing a generation of boys and we are losing them to the hatred they are ingesting, because it is a response to their loneliness and isolation," he pointed out. The screenwriter assures that what most interested him about the book when he reread it as an adult was its tenderness. "I thought it was a tender portrait of many very complicated boys who have a complicated relationship with their status and their rage. I think it's the perfect distillation of our contemporary problem, in terms of the male condition," he summarizes.

A child cast

Filmed in the Langkawi archipelago, Malaysia, the production features a cast of 30 children – many of them debutants – who were mostly chosen through an open casting call that attracted 7,000 children. The actor selection process was led by casting director Nina Gold, who has worked on series such as Game of Thrones, The Crown, The Bear or Slow Horses which is being prepared by Greta Gerwig and will be released in 2027. Lox Pratt, who is Jack, will be Draco Malfoy to the Harry Potter series that will arrive on HBO Max this Christmas in the Harry Potter series coming to HBO Max at Christmas this year.