In our Harry Potter-saturated world, it’s impossible for another piece of media that features a magically inclined educational establishment to avoid being compared to Hogwarts. So folks are probably getting major HP flashbacks from the first teaser trailer for The School for Good and Evil, the upcoming Netflix family fantasy film that, yes, takes place at castle that’s home to mystical kids. But though they are nominally similar, we can apparently expect some big tonal differences.
Speaking during the School for Good and Evil panel at today’s second day of Geeked Week, author Soman Chainani — who penned the best-selling children’s book upon which the movie is based — revealed what makes his story different from any other magical school narratives that audiences might’ve already seen before. Chainani stressed that it has a whole “different energy” as well as a female-fronted twist on the typical Chosen One (read Chosen Boy) tale. He explained:
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