With Warner Brothers having picked up the rights for William Golding’s Lord of the Flies a couple of years ago, now comes word on The WB lining up a director to helm a new big-screen take on the property.

Courtesy of Variety, Warners Bros. is in talks with Luca Guadagnino about directing a new movie version of Lord of the Flies. Guadagnino won himself a whole host of supporters for his mind-blowing take on Suspiria last year, and he and his producing partner Marco Morabito are both in talks with Warners.

Released in 1954, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies centres on a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island. As they attempt to govern themselves, things take a turn for the savage.

To date, there have been three movie adaptations of Lord of the Flies – in 1963, 1975, and 1990 – and the property has also been adapted for the stage and for radio.

Expect more on this new Lord of the Flies as we get it.