Tag: Lord of the Flies
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‘Lord of the Flies’ Remake Producer Calls Luca Guadagnino’s Film Scary & Fresh
Lindsey Anderson Beer is no stranger to a good bit of IP. Known best for her work as a writer behind projects including Netflix’s Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, the scribe will soon make her directorial debut with Paramount+’s Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. The film will serve as a prequel telling of the story and movie,…
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‘Children of the Corn’ Review: In the Latest Sequel Slash Reboot, There Isn’t a Kernel of Fear Left
Like a virus that keeps coming back but growing weaker each time, “Children of the Corn” is now a horror movie that lacks the strength to infect you with even a speck of fear. The original strain of the virus was Stephen King’s short story — published in 1977, at the heart of his shivery…
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Yellowjackets Season 1: Every Shocking Moment That Made Us Go Wtf?
Editor’s Note: The following contains full spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 1. Showtime’s Yellowjackets has officially given us a release date for Season 2 on March 24. If you haven’t seen Yellowjackets before, stop what you’re doing and give this 7 Primetime Emmy nominated show a watch. Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets has…
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Peter Brook, British Theater and Film Director, Dies at 97
Click here to read the full article.Peter Brook, a British theater and film director known for an influential and distinguished career which saw him garner worldwide acclaim, has died. He was 97.The two-time Tony Award winner, who had settled in France decades ago, directed the film adaptations of his best stage works as well as…
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The Wilds Star Rachel Griffiths On Whether Or Not Gretchen Is The Villain [Interview]
Prime Video struck gold with the first season of “The Wilds,” an exceedingly binge-worthy thriller about a group of teenagers who find themselves stranded in the wilderness after an unexpected plane crash. Does this premise sound a little familiar? This turns out to be more of a feature than a bug, as “The Wilds” pays…
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‘Oh my God, I’m having sex again!’: Yellowjackets’ Melanie Lynskey on raunch, rage and the rise of Kate Winslet
After 30 years of critical acclaim, the actor has finally found mainstream success at 44. She talks about Hollywood’s dangerous beauty standards, turning down misogynistic scripts – and why her TV show about possible teenage cannibals is so much funIt would not surprise me if Melanie Lynskey had deliberately matched her pale blouse to the…
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‘Yellowjackets’ Review: Teen Girls, Cannibalism, and Dark Secrets Captivate in Showtime Drama
“Yellowjackets” is a series you might think you’ve seen before. Feature films like “Alive” and “Lord of the Flies” have shown what happens when people, especially children, are stranded in an isolated location and turn to the darker side of living off the land. Even Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wilds,” released earlier this year, has…
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Yellowjackets Trailer: Soccer Players Battle The Wilderness In The Showtime Series
Showtime has lined up a murderer’s row of actresses for its new survival drama, “Yellowjackets.” Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, and Tawny Cypress star in the 10-episode series which follows the aftermath of a girls’ soccer team that gets stranded in the wilderness after their plane crashes. By “aftermath,” I mean not only their…
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Hollywood studio behind 12 Years a Slave wins rights for ‘real life Lord of the Flies’
New Regency will bring to the screen the true story of six Tongan teenagers who survived for 15 months on a remote Pacific island in the 1960sThe Hollywood studio behind 12 Years a Slave and The Revenant has won the battle for film rights to the story of the six Tongan teenagers stranded for months…
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Real-life Lord of the Flies story sparks film rights scramble
Writer of a Guardian feature about six Tongan teenagers who survived on a desert island for 15 months ‘bombarded’ with emails from film-makersThe Guardian’s immensely popular article about a real-life Lord of the Flies-style shipwreck has sparked a scramble for screen adaptation rights among film and TV producers.Related: The real Lord of the Flies: what…