Soman Chainani Teases a Potential Sequel to 'The School of Good and Evil'

This fairytale isn't over just yet.

After a huge opening weekend on Netflix, The School for Good and Evil is flipping the idea of a happy ending on its head.

Soman Chainani, the creator and author of the book series, is still living on the high from the film's success.

"Over the last seven, eight years, we've had millions of readers all around the world. Netflix didn't know what to expect! These fans are nuts. They've been reading it for a long time. They've been passing it down to their siblings. They're coming to show up," Chainani tells PRIDE.

Growing up gay and Indian, Chainani found comfort reading fairytales as a child. He grew so fascinated with the genre, that it inspired him to create his own magical world.

"When you have a favorite book as a kid, it's your whole life. It's your imagination, it's what forms your identity, it's what forms your relationship to boys... everything about it. It's why I write for that age group, because they're not cynical like us. They're not dead inside like the rest of us."

For fans of fictional stories, The School of Good and Evil may be the perfect series to dive into.

"If you watched Harry Potter and wished it was a lot gayer, darker, and had a lot more female energy, that's the summary! It's more about my obsession with Disney growing up and the fact that I love the villains. I love Ursula, I love Scar. I feel like we never heard their side of their story. All the villains are either drag queens or gay men."

As younger generations absorb media that includes more LGBTQ+ storylines, Chainani hopes the representation will bring more acceptance into society.

"My job is to keep pushing boundaries and be as edgy and bold as I can. I hope that kids are open to it and I think they are. At the end of the day, it's me trying to create stuff that I didn't have when I needed it. Also, it's for adults that didn't have that growing up and can vicariously live through it."

With the film topping the charts around the world on Netflix, the big question is if a sequel may be announced in the near future.

"Hopefully we'll get to a do a School for Good and Evil sequel, because I'd love to see Charlize [Theron] and Kerry [Washington] and Michelle Yao and Laurence Fishburne and all of the amazing young actors come back, so we can do it all again."

The School for Good and Evil is streaming now on Netflix. To see the full interview with Soman Chainani, check out the video below.

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