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Just cuz it was on my desk top...
Anyway!
When I heard they were doing this I wasn't shocked in the least... more shocked that people are so riled up about it.
I guess I was just never into that story in the first place... HOWEVER... As long as they aren't trying to follow the book closely, just swapping out the genders, it could work.
To me it's a "What if?" movie, which I have no problem with. What if you put a group of girls in the island, have a girl for each male character, (so a female "Piggy" for example) and then say "WHAT IF these characters were GIRLS, how would the outcome have been different?"
That's interesting to me.
What if Superman crashed in Russia?
What if Bruce Wayne died in that alley and his father became Batman?
What if the kids stranded in Lord of the Flies were girls not boys?
People knee jerk at the "Oh it's a PC move!"... and it is... but it's also maybe more interesting than another Lord of the Flies starring a bunch of up and coming 14 year old Disney kids.