Where was Lord of the Flies filmed?

The BBC's new adaptation of Lord of the Flies sticks closely to its source material, telling the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, must survive together on a tropical island without any adults.

Given this, the series had to feature some stunning locations, which could act both as the paradise the boys initially find it to be, and the hellish, terrifying landscape it becomes as their civility descends.

Thankfully, it has done so, with Jack Thorne's adaptation being shot almost entirely on location in an incredible part of the world. But just where did production take place?

Read on for everything you need to know about where Lord of the Flies is set and where exactly it was filmed?

Where is Lord of the Flies set?

It's never made clear exactly where Lord of the Flies takes place.

Set in the 1950s during a fictional global war, it follows a group of boys who are on board a plane, being evacuated. When the plane crashes and the pilot is killed the boys are left alone on an island in the Pacific Ocean.

Exactly which island this is is never named in either the book or the TV series.

Where was Lord of the Flies filmed?

Lord of the Flies was filmed almost entirely on location in Malaysia.

Speaking at a recent screening and Q&A for the series, executive producer Joel Wilson said the series was filmed "very far" from the nearest town or city.

"I was an avid fan of Lost,", Wilson said, "and I watched the making of that, and effectively they're standing in a car park in Hawaii, with their backs to the car park, shooting into the jungle.

"And we took the opposite approach. We looked at lots of different locations, and then we carefully selected the least practical. So, we were trekking into the jungles for an hour at a time, and David was often carried or pushed in his chariot, or in particularly difficult terrain. So we were shooting in very inaccessible, inhospitable places."

Director Marc Munden said that throughout the filming process, "everyone was soaked to the skin every day, either through sweat or sea water or torrential rain".

"But it was a lot of fun as well," he added. "The boys really enjoyed it."

On filming with a cast of entirely child actors, Munden said it was "quite chaotic on set", but that it was "brilliant, beautiful chaos".

"We only had six hours a day to film with the kids," he added. "So after the first couple of days, we were sort of twiddling our thumbs, and I thought, I love these coconuts, let's film some coconuts.

"And every day we had coconut time, basically, and if we weren't filming coconuts we were filming birds or crabs or we're capturing the sea, sort of swooping into the sea and things - which developed out of coconut time every afternoon."

Meanwhile Wilson said of the tents the child actors were staying in: "At first we were told that it would be better for them to acclimatise and not have air conditioning, and then we realised that was not a good idea. So, we got air conditioning. We had very few cases of sunburn, but we had lots of people with umbrellas and there was an awful lot of sunscreen."

Lord of the Flies is available to stream in full now on BBC iPlayer. The first episode will air at 9pm on BBC One on Sunday 8th February.

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