Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington are enrolling in Paul Feig’s Netflix feature, The School for Good and Evil.
The New York Times best-selling book from Soman Chainani follows best friends Sophie and Agatha, students at the titular School for Good and Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy-tale heroes and villains. With her princess ambitions, Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her grim aesthetic and wicked cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil. But when the girls find their fortunes reversed, with Sophie dropped into the School for Evil and Agatha into the School for Good, their friendship will be put to the test.
Washington will play Professor Dovey, the Dean of Good, and Theron will play Lady Lesso, the Dean of the School for Evil.
Life of Pi writer David Magee and Laura Solon, who penned Let It Snow for Netflix, will write the screenplay. Feig will also produce through his Feigco banner, along with Laura Fischer, Joe Roth, Jeffrey Kirschenbaum and Jane Startz. Zack Roth and Patricia Riggen will exec produce with Chainani.
Theron was last seen in the Netflix feature The Old Guard, while Washington recently appeared in the Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere.
Feig first made the casting announcement on Twitter, writing, “I know what school I’m applying to! So thrilled to welcome Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington to the School for Good and Evil! Everyone, prepare to get schooled!”
