‘Lord of the Flies’ is Coming to Netflix This May

Lord of the Flies is coming to Netflix May 4. The series is created and written by Emmy winner Jack Thorne (“Adolescence,” Enola Holmes), with Marc Munden (“Utopia,” The Secret Garden) directing. In the four-part series, when a group of English schoolboys crash-lands on a tropical island, their attempts to survive are threatened by the lure of their darkest instincts. Winston…

Caroline C Ryan

April 6, 2026

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Lord of the Flies is coming to Netflix May 4.

The series is created and written by Emmy winner Jack Thorne (“Adolescence,” Enola Holmes), with Marc Munden (“Utopia,” The Secret Garden) directing.

In the four-part series, when a group of English schoolboys crash-lands on a tropical island, their attempts to survive are threatened by the lure of their darkest instincts.

Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, David McKenna, andIke Talbut star with Thomas Connor, Noah Flemyng, Cassius Flemyng, Cornelius Brandreth, and Tom Page-Turner.

Backed by Sony Pictures Television, executive producers include Thorne via One Shoe Films, Mund, and Joel Wilson & Jamie Campbell for Eleven (“Sex Education”).