YEAR nine Wellington School Pupil, Tom Page-Turner will star in the upcoming BBC Drama adaption of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

Tom Page-Turner will be making his professional acting debut as ‘Bill’ alongside an ensemble of more than 20 other boys.

Tom was chosen from thousands of children throughout the UK after auditioning in house at Wellington School.

The series is filming now in Malaysia, ahead of further filming later this year in the UK.

The story has been adapted for television by the multi-BAFTA award winning writer Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials, Help, National Treasure, Enola Holmes) and directed by Marc Munden (Help, The Sympathizer).

The four-part series is produced by Eleven (Ten Pound Poms, Sex Education) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One in a co-production with Stan.

The Lord of the Flies cast, many of whom are making their professional acting debuts, were auditioned following an open casting call, with no prior acting experience necessary.

The process was led by multi-award-winning casting director Nina Gold (Game of Thrones, The Power of the Dog, Baby Reindeer).

Jack Thorne’s adaptation will be the first for television. Truthful to the original novel – set in the early 1950s on an unnamed Pacific island – Thorne’s adaptation delves further into the book’s emotive themes; human nature, the loss of innocence and boyhood masculinity.

Lord of the Flies, first published by Faber, has become one of the most popular books on English curricula for the last 70 years.