There is to be a new Lord of The Flies film with a twist - all the people stranded on the island will be female.

The adaptation of William Golding's 1954 novel has faced backlash on social media as critics have accused it of "missing the point".

Others have slammed the remake for being written about women, but by two men.

 Deadline reports that the male US film-making team of Scott McGehee and Evan Siegel has signed a team with Warner Bros to create the remake.

Mr McGehee said they were "taking the opportunity to tell it in a way it hasn't been told before, with girls rather than boys, [which] shifts things in a way that might help people see the story anew."