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William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is iconic – largely thanks to high school required reading, but the novel is one of the first of its kind to explore the now familiar question of what happens when a group of students gets stranded on an island.

They descend into savagery, obviously.

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But because leaving well enough alone is not a concept Hollywood understands, Warner Bros has just greenlit a new film adaptation of the novel. This time, however, the film will feature a female cast instead of male. The novel was adapted for film in both 1963 and 1990.

Deadline reports Scott McGehee and David Siegel will write and direct. They previously collaborated on What Maisie Knew, Bee Season and The Deep End – so nothing remotely encouraging.

McGehee said the subject “is aggressively suspenseful, and taking the opportunity to tell it in a way it hasn’t been told before, with girls rather than boys, is that it shifts things in a way that might help people see the story anew. It breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression.”