‘The College for Good and Evil’ lands on Netflix Oct. 19
Editorial Intern, PEOPLE
The magical first full trailer for Netflix’s The College for Good and Evilhas arrived.
Based mostly on the bestselling e-book assortment by utilizing Soman Chainani, the film follows first-rate pals Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie) as they’re swept off to an enchanted faculty stuffed with fairy-tale figures.
“You are making an attempt to inform me that Snow White and Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk had been precise?” Agatha asks as a result of the pair arrive on the school. “Our graduates reside the very actual events which come to be the tales,” the Schoolmaster (Laurence Fishburne) tells her.
The motion-packed trailer ensures what Chainani beforehand referred to as a “Harry Potter-esque franchise” for Netflix, though one that is “a bit additional marketing consultant, a bit extra inclusive.”
Surrounded by means of classmates who will keep out the fairy tales Sophie and Agatha have dreamed of — similar to Captain Hook, the Depraved Witch and King Arthur — the women warfare to search out their location on the College for Good and Evil.
After they arrive, Sophie is taken into the College for Evil, the place Girl Lesso (Charlize Theron) trains villains, similtaneously Agatha goes to the College for Good, through which Professor Dovey (Kerry Washington) teaches the heroes. As Sophie seems to dive deeper into Girl Lesso’s worldwide, Agatha begins to fret roughly the “harmful evil” at play.
The Schoolmaster tells the pair that easiest actual love’s kiss can ship the women to their rightful faculties and future, nevertheless a darkish determine from Sophie’s past (Equipment Younger) seems to threaten the whole thing. As Agatha makes an attempt to warn her pal roughly what’s at hazard, Sophie insists that she likes the brand new version of herself.
“If Sophie turns into evil, none folks will live on,” Fishburne’s character warns Agatha throughout the trailer.
The movie, which moreover stars Michelle Yeoh, is directed by way of A Easy Favor‘s Paul Feig, who Chainani referred to as a “visionary” whilst on The Kelly Clarkson Present. The director had an entire set constructed to create a precise college putting, mentioning his dislike for inexperienced shows and pc-generated backgrounds, Chainani mentioned.
Whereas the writer situated it troublesome to maintain his “cool” throughout the director, Feig often known as the film the time of his existence in an Instagram publish. “On daily basis with these superior powerhouses is a real pleasure,” the caption examine, regarding stars Theron and Washington.
The College for Good and Evil debuts on Netflix Oct. 19.
