Cate Blanchett Cast As Narrator In Netflix's The School For Good & Evil
Cate Blanchett joins Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil as the narrator. Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington and Michelle Yeoh are already on-board for the upcoming movie based on the fantasy novel series by Soman Chainani. Ghostbusters helmer Paul Feig directs from a script by Vanessa Taylor, David Magee and Feig.
Chainani's original School for Good and Evil books follow the adventures of Sophie and Agatha as they join the titular fantasy university where children are trained to become either fairytale heroes or fairytale villains. The upcoming Netflix movie adaptation stars Sophia Anne Caruso as Sophie, the good girl who is schooled to be bad, and Sofia Wylie as Agatha, the oddball who is trained to be good. Laurence Fishburne plays the school master, alongside Theron as Lady Lesso, Washington as Professor Clarissa Dovey and Yeoh as Professor Emma Anemone.
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As if that impressive cast weren’t already good enough, The School for Good and Evil has now added another Oscar-winner in Blanchett. Writer-director Feig himself revealed the casting from the recent Women in Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles (via ComicBook.com), saying he’s “very excited” about the addition. Blanchett will not however be seen on-screen (presumably), as she’s been cast to fill the role of narrator for the Netflix movie.
Blanchett of course has plenty of experience in the realm of fantasy film, having played Lady Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. She also played the villainous Hela in the fantasy-adjacent MCU movie Thor: Ragnarok. Her Oscars obviously came outside the world of genre film however, as she won for the dramas Blue Jasmine and
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