All-girl remake of Lord of the Flies idea attacked
Critics say the whole point of the book is to critique destructive masculinity - and argue a female version wouldn't make sense.
It is one of the English language's best-known novels - a story of the disaster that ensues when children recreate society's power and violence on a desert island.
But according to reports Lord of the Flies could be due for an unusual remake, with an all-girl cast replacing the gang of feral schoolboys in William Golding's classic novel.
The Deadline news site reported that filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel are contemplating rewriting the novel for screen, with a group of schoolgirls instead of young male characters like Ralph, Jack and Piggy.
The pair said they hoped to do a "very faithful but contemporised adaptation of the book", which they said was about children "replicating the behaviour they saw in grown-ups."
They hope the new film - which is still in the early concept stages - could break away from conventions around the "ways we think of boys and aggression."
But online, the idea has not gone down well
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According to a lot of readings, the whole point of Lord of the Flies is that it tackles how we think about boys and aggression.
And a lot of people think that a story about boys replicating destructive masculinity might not make sense if men are replaced by women.
Many critics suggested the remake had already been created in the form of movies like Mean Girls or 1980s clique murder flick Heathers.
Others imagined what a Lord of the Flies featuring girls might actually look like, and came to the conclusion it might not be blockbuster material.
The news also prompted criticism for failing to make an effort to tell stories that had been written and produced by women - especially since the proposed movie would be made by two men.
William Golding spoke about why he wanted to write a story describing how boys would "really behave being boys and not little saints."
One reason was that he had been a boy too, so knew what he was talking about.
But he also said a group of boys would be "more like scaled down society than a group of little girls will be."
"I think women are foolish to pretend they're equal to men. They're far superior and always have been," he said.
"One thing you cannot do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who will then become a kind of image of civilisation of society."
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