After her latest film The Old Guard proved to be a massive hit with Netflix audiences around the world, Oscar-winner Charlize Theron will be collaborating again with the online streaming giant for her next film and in doing so, she's going to be spending quite a bit of time on these shores.
That's because the star of Mad Max: Fury Road and Atomic Blonde has been cast in Netflix's new fantasy epic, The School for Good and Evil.
The movie will be filmed in Northern Ireland at Belfast Harbour Studios with Theron and Kerry Washington (Django Unchained, Ray) in the leading roles.
In terms of the plot, we're told that the film revolves around two best friends, Sophie and Agatha.
They're about to discover where fairy-tale legacies go to school: the 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.
Yet soon the girls find their fortunes reversed: Sophie is dropped into the School for Evil, Agatha into the School for Good. But what if the mistake is the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are? Their friendship will be put to the test in this thrilling and comedic story where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.
The film will be directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Spy) and he's looking forward to reuniting with Theron.
“I am so thrilled to have Charlize and Kerry in this film. I was honoured to work with Charlize back on Arrested Development and have been dying to work with her again ever since. And I’ve been such a massive fan of Kerry’s forever and to finally find something for us to do together is just more proof that 2021 is gonna be way way better than 2020," he said.
The book is the first of six in The School for Good and Evil series by author Soman Chainani, so here's hoping that Theron and the rest of the cast and crew will be returning to Ireland for future adventures.
