How ‘Lord of the Flies’ Pulled Off Piggy’s Emotional Death on an ‘Uninhabited’ Island: ‘It Makes Me Cry Every Time’

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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Lord of the Flies,” now streaming on Netflix.

Fans of William Golding’s classic 1954 book “Lord of the Flies,” about a group of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island, will surely anticipate Piggy’s (also known as Nicky) death coming in the new four-part series from showrunner, writer and executive producer Jack Thorne.

“In the book, he dies instantly. It’s a real shock. It comes out of nowhere and I think what Jack Thorne’s done rather cleverly is to prolong his death so that we can see the relationship between Ralph and Piggy sort of persists,” director and executive producer Marc Munden said during Variety‘s Making a Scene presented by HBO Max.

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