EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has bagged the U.S. rights to Jack Thorne‘s Lord of the Flies TV adaptation.
It’s a major acquisition for Netflix, as several potential buyers were thought to be keen on the buzzy drama series, which comes from Sony-owned Eleven Film and Thorne’s One Shoe Films and is for the BBC in the UK and Stan in Australia.
We’ve got word the deal is one of a glut distributor Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has snagged for the show, as the U.S. studio prepares for the London TV Screenings later this month.
The buyers are Sky (Germany,
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