Gender-flipped remakes aren’t a new concept in Hollywood, but they have been popping up with surprising regularity. Last year brought us the Ghostbusters redux that made trolls cry crocodile tears. Next year will bring us the glamorous Ocean’s Eleven remake, starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, and more. One hopeful day, Jillian Bell’s gender-swapped version of Splash, co-starring Channing Tatum, will hit our screens. All of these films make perfect sense, re-fitting modern classics to a female perspective and, frankly, giving actresses juicy roles that typically go to their male colleagues. But not every story makes sense to gender-flip. Particularly if that story is William Golding’s classic Lord of the Flies, a vicious tale about a barbaric boy-made society.

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Alas, Deadline is reporting that duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel (two men, for the record), will write and direct an all-girl version of Lord of the Flies for Warner Bros. Siegel said they wanted to do “a very faithful but contemporized adaptation,” while McGehee said they’re “taking the opportunity to tell it in a way it hasn’t been told before.”

“It breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression,” he continues. “People still talk about the movie and the book from the standpoint of pure storytelling. It is a great adventure story, real entertainment, but it has a lot of meaning embedded in it as well.”

The concept alone (it just . . . disregards the point of the book!) was enough to raise Twitter’s hackles, let alone the fact that it will also be written and directed by men.

Because no one understands the psyche of a teen girl like two men. To be fair, McGehee and Siegel’s past works include female-centric films like Bee Season and What Maisie Knew. However, both films were based on screenplays penned by female writers. This time around, McGehee and Siegel will be working on the script themselves, which raises a few alarms. If this concept goes through, shouldn’t a few women be involved in the behind-the-scenes process? Or at least one? Just one? Please?

For those loath to acknowledge this impending remake, take comfort in the fact that there’s already a film out there with a Lord of the Flies-esque ethos.