The Guardian’s immensely popular article about a real-life Lord of the Flies-style shipwreck has sparked a scramble for screen adaptation rights among film and TV producers.
Responding to disquiet that Warner stood to profit from the story rights, Totau said: “If no Mr Warner, we never survive, if no Mr Warner we won’t be here to tell our story.
If Mr Warner makes some money from it, good luck for him, that’s my opinion.
Bregman stressed the co-operation and ingenuity of the boys, as a corrective to the feral vision of William Golding’s bestselling novel Lord of the Flies, which was published in 1951.