 Less successfully during this period , Kneale completed screenplays for adaptations of the novels Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley . Neither of these scripts ever saw production , as the companies making them went out of business — Kneale commented in a 2003 interview that " I reckon I closed down at least two film companies . " Another screenplay that went unproduced was a Kneale original , a drama involving a wave of teenage suicides called The Big Giggle , or The Big , Big Giggle . Written in 1965 while Kneale was suffering from a mystery illness and forced to stay in bed for a long period , the concept started life as a drama serial for the BBC , before the corporation had second thoughts about the nature of the storyline and the possibility of copycat suicides ; Kneale later agreed that they were probably right not to make it for television . The production was nearly made as a film by 20th Century Fox , but John Trevelyan , Chief Executive of the British Board of Film Censors , forbade the script 's production . 
