THE ULTIMATE TEST OF SURVIVAL: "LORD OF THE FLIES" DEBUTS MAY 4 ON NETFLIX

The limited series adaptation from Jack Thorne, the Emmy-winning co-creator of Adolescence.

· Today, Netflix announced that the acclaimed series, LORD OF THE FLIES, will premiere on May 4. All episodes will be available to members in the United States. The series is created and written by Emmy-winner Jack Thorne (Adolescence, Enola Holmes), with Marc Munden (The Mark of Cain, National Treasure) serving as Director. The series is created and written for the screen by Emmy-winner Jack Thorne, the Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice and PGA Award-winning co-creator of Adolescence (Adolescence, Enola Holmes), with Marc Munden (The Mark of Cain, National Treasure) serving as Director, with music by Oscar-winner Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve (Bleeding Fingers Music) and Cristobal Tapia de Veer.

· Logline: Innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways in the first television adaptation of William Golding's landmark dystopian classic.

· Episodes: 4 X 1 hour

· Executive Producers: Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell for Eleven, Jack Thorne for One Shoe Films, and Marc Munden

· Created & Written by: Jack Thorne

· Directed by: Marc Munden

· Cast: 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 Flemyng 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"

· Music by: Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve, and Cristobal Tapia de Veer

· Studio: An Eleven and One Shoe Films production backed by Sony Pictures Television

· For more information on Lord of the Flies, visit TUDUM.