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Paul Feig to adapt The School For Good And Evil for Netflix

By Dan Selcke

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 11: (L-R) Emilia Clarke and director Paul Feig attend the "Last Christmas" UK Premiere at BFI Southbank on November 11, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 11: (L-R) Emilia Clarke and director Paul Feig attend the "Last Christmas" UK Premiere at BFI Southbank on November 11, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images) /
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Thanks to the coronavirus shutting down production, Netflix isn’t making any new movies or shows at the moment, but it is planning for the future. Deadline reports that the streaming service has recruited Paul Feig to make a movie out of The School for Good and Evil, the first in Soman Chainani’s series of novels about a school where students are taught how to become fairy tale heroes or villains. So Snow White and Cinderella went to the School for Good, Maleficent went to the School for Evil, you get the idea.

The series follows new students best buds Sophie and Agatha. Sophie is big into princesses and fully expects to be admitted to the School for Evil, while Agatha is a bit a mall goth and sees herself going to the School for Evil. But the girls get put in the opposite schools. Cue a three-book journey full of self-discovery, romance and magic.

There’s also a second trilogy that follows what happens to the girls after they finish their educations, but let’s take it one magical adventure at a time.

Netflix has been going pretty hard at the fantasy stuff lately, what with The Witcher and A Letter for the King out and Cursed on the way. This sort of fits in there. And Feig is a talented director with an impressive list of TV credits that includes shows like The Office, Mad Men, Arrested Development, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation, as well as movies like Bridesmaids. “I’m truly excited to bring this amazing, touching, funny, and empowering world that Soman created in his wonderful books to life,” he said. “I feel like a frog that just turned into a prince.”

David Magee (Life of Pi, Mary Poppins Returns) and Laura Solon (Office Christmas Party) are writing the screenplay There’s no release date for The School For Good And Evil. In the meantime, the books may be worth a read. And if they’re not your style, you have plenty of other options:

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