Luca Guadagnino has landed his next project. The Call Me By Your Name director is set to helm an adaptation of Lord of the Flies for Warner Bros.
The novel, by William Golding, centers on a group of young, male boarding school students that end up stranded on an island and devolve into savages. A female-led adaptation was announced in 2017 but drew criticism for putting a male writing-directing team at the helm of what was being billed as a female-fronted project. Scott McGehee and David Siegel were originally attached to write and direct. Guadagnino’s take will follow Golding’s original story more closely and will once again center on a group of schoolboys.
Known Universe, the production company founded by tentpole writers Lindsey Beer, Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Nicole Perlman, is in talks to executive produce. If deals go as planned, Guadagnino and his producing partner Marco Morabito will produce the movie.
Guadagnino gained wide critical acclaim for Call Me By Your Name, which starred Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer. He followed that film up with a remake of the horror classic, Suspiria.
