Hollywood studio behind 12 Years a Slave wins rights for 'real life Lord of the Flies'

New Regency will bring to the screen the true story of six Tongan teenagers who survived for 15 months on a remote Pacific island in the 1960s The Hollywood studio behind 12 Years a Slave and The Revenant has won the battle for film rights to the story of the six Tongan teenagers stranded for months on an uninhabited island in the mid-1960s, dubbed as the "real-life Lord of the Flies". Rutger Bregman, the historian whose immensely popular article was published by the Guardian on 9 May and trigge...