And just when you thought Leonardo Di Caprio had murdered 'Richard' sufficiently in Danny Boyle's depiction of The Beach (best example of miscasting ever) Fox are now trying to breath life into the corpse of Andrew Garland's 1996 novel.
For those of you who've never read the book or see the film, here's a handy recap courtesy of Dark Horizons: "Garland's book, described as a Generation X take on Lord of the Flies, follows a young traveller in Bangkok who encounters a strange Scotsman who tells him of a supposedly hidden beach located on an island in the Gulf of Thailand that is inaccessible to tourists. Together with a young and beautiful French couple, they find the beach where a self-sufficient community has developed and almost completely shut itself off from civilization."
Then they get a bit precious over the whole thing, start taking a load of drugs, and things kind've get a bit weird.
Deadline adds: "The project is being written by Andrew Miller, who penned the original script for the CW's The Secret Circle and co-ran the series with Kevin Williamson. 'It's about a group of young people feeling disconnected and disenchanted from society who try to start over in paradise but discover that while creating the perfect world is hard, protecting it is even harder', Miller said."
Oh, so many new ideas out there. They'll be resurrecting Dallas next...