HOOK Writer to Adapt THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL

Producer Joe Roth (Oz the Great and Powerful) and Jane Startz have acquired the rights to an upcoming supernatural fantasy novel trilogy called The School for Good and Evil. They've hired Hook screenwriter Malia Scotch Marmo to co-write the film with the book's author Soman Chainani. 

The book will be published by HarperCollins on May 14th, and it sounds like a fun story. It centers on an ordinary group of "boys and girls who are kidnapped from their homes and sent to The School for Good and Evil, where they are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains, princesses and witches." I can actually see this making for a great movie. 

Here's a trailer for the book and an official description with more details:

At the School for Good and Evil, failing your fairy tale is not an option.

Welcome to the School for Good and Evil, where best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows she'll earn top marks at the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil.

The two girls soon find their fortunes reversed—Sophie's dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School for Good, thrust among handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.

But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are . . ?

The School for Good and Evil is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.