{"id":14410,"date":"2026-02-15T23:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/14410\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:33:17","slug":"jack-thorne-talks-adolescence-lord-of-the-flies-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/14410\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Thorne Talks \u2018Adolescence\u2019 & \u2018Lord Of The Flies\u2019 \u2014 Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tProlific British screenwriter Jack Thorne<\/a> is at this year\u2019s Berlinale<\/a> with his latest project, Lord of the Flies<\/a>, which he told an audience of industry professionals during a Q&A session was shot and produced at the same time as his massive Netflix breakout, Adolescence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were working on them at the same time, and we shot them the same summer. The only difference is that Adolescence didn\u2019t have a very long edit process,\u201d Thorne said this morning during the session.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey both definitely fed into each other, particularly, a lot of Lord of the Flies fed into Adolescence, but it is about a different period of time. The difference between boys aged 10 and 12 compared to 13 and 14 is huge. All the boys in Flies are negotiating the people they\u2019re going to become, whereas Jamie has made decisions about the person he is when we meet him in Adolescence. So there are similarities, but there are vast differences.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThorne spoke at length with Berlinale Series Advisor Rowan Woods about a variety of topics during the session, including his speedy working rhythms, telling Woods that he only works on \u201ctwo projects at once.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s all I ever do,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I need two projects because if I get stuck, I stop sleeping. I need the ability to switch because if I\u2019m writing Adolescence and I can\u2019t fix something, it is a nightmare. So being able to swap to Lord of the Flies, I can get a little bit of confidence back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThorne also discussed Adolescence in contrast to his 2021 series Help, which also starred Stephen Graham, but struggled to find international distribution, he said, due to its local narrative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe previous project I\u2019d done with Stephen was a show called Help that was about care homes during the pandemic. It was a subject I was incredibly passionate about, and we tried really hard to get some international purchase with it,\u201d Thorne said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were told the accents are too strong, the issue is too British, and wouldn\u2019t work in other countries. And then suddenly, a show like Adolescence, where the accents are just as strong, if not stronger, where the issue is as British, if not more British. There are no guns involved in this story. But it still managed to travel everywhere. It was number one in Saudi Arabia for three days.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHelp was ultimately picked up by Acorn TV for North America. <\/p>\n

\n\tYesterday, Deadline announced that Netflix has acquired North American rights to Lord of the Flies. The four-part series, based on William Golding\u2019s novel of the same name, launched\u00a0on the BBC in the UK and Stan in Australia on February 8. The series screened in Berlin<\/a> as part of the Berlinale Specials Series programme. <\/p>\n

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