![Paul Feig Talks Subverting Fairy Tale Tropes In ‘The School For Good & Evil,’ His Love Of Horror & More [The Playlist Podcast]](https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/21235310/Paul-feig-school-for-good-and-evil.jpg "Paul Feig Talks Subverting Fairy Tale Tropes In ‘The School For Good & Evil,’ His Love Of Horror & More [The Playlist Podcast]")
Paul Feig is a family identify within the style of comedy. From creating collection comparable to “Freaks and Geeks” to directing huge hit movies like “Bridesmaids” and “Spy,” Feig has actually turn out to be among the best comedic administrators of the previous couple of many years. Well, he’s starting to discover different genres comparable to fantasy along with his new movie, “The School for Good and Evil.” And on this episode of The Playlist Podcast, I bought an opportunity to sit down down with Feig to speak in regards to the difficulties of the fantasy style, deconstructing fairy tales, and why a horror mission he’s growing has was his ardour mission.
For these unfamiliar with Feig’s work, he has been a filmmaker working within the comedy style for many years now. He’s clearly been concerned in a lot of TV collection, together with “Freaks and Geeks,” in addition to directing episodes of “Arrested Development,” “The Office,” and lots of extra. In movie, he’s labored because the director of options comparable to “Bridesmaids,” “Spy,” “The Heat,” and “A Simple Favor.” His newest movie is the YA fantasy, “The School for Good and Evil.”
“The School for Good and Evil” tells the story of, properly, two fairy story faculties. One for good teenagers to learn to be heroes, and one other for evil teenagers who will learn to achieve success villains. The movie stars Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington because the headmasters of the 2 faculties with people like Laurence Fishburne, Sophia Anne Caruso, and Sofia Wylie additionally starring within the movie.
In our dialogue, we discuss fairly a bit in regards to the fantasy style and the trick to adapting high quality fairy tales for the massive display, particularly relating to subverting tropes.
“That’s the thing that made me want to do the movie, when I read the script for the first time,” mentioned Feig about deconstructing the fairy story style. “This strong female friendship. She doesn’t leave with the prince. It’s very much about the power of friendship. It’s just a theme in all of my movies.”
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He added, “It was easy to not fall into the trap because the book was kinda hard-wired for that anyway. For me, the big draw was to deconstruct the whole idea of fairy tales because I am not a fan of fairy tales. [Laughs] When I was a kid, I hated fairy tales. I hated them. They were either too scary or they were too moralistic. There was just something about them I didn’t like.”
Of course, with “The School for Good and Evil” arriving on Netflix, it’s time to take a look at what’s subsequent. And for Feig, that features a attainable sequel to his hit thriller, “A Simple Favor,” which marks the primary time the filmmaker has really toyed with the thought of a sequel. According to Feig, that is only a story that felt like a pure development for him.
“I just felt like Stephanie and Emily have another adventure in them,” defined Feig, referring to the characters Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively play within the movie. “It just felt like there is more we could do with this. I really love Stephanie, who Anna Kendrick plays, because putting someone in over their head is comedy gold… and it just felt like, ‘Let’s take Anna Kendrick’s character into a much crazier, bigger world and see what happens.’ And obviously, Emily is her tour guide into it.”
Another mission in improvement is “Dark Army,” which is Paul Feig’s tackle the traditional Universal Monsters and the horror style. This is a movie that the filmmaker says he’s “desperate to make.”
“That’s one I’m desperate to make. I’m such a fan of the old James Whale classic monster movies from Universal. And this was my ode to that but with new characters,” he mentioned. “I think the studio felt it might be too expensive. I don’t agree. I just have to convince them.”
He continued, “I probably need to go in and do another draft and try to make it a little cheaper, I guess. But I’m not giving up on that one because that’s a real passion project for me. There’s nothing more dangerous than a passion project, but I really want to make it.”
You can hear our full dialogue beneath. “The School for Good and Evil” is offered on Netflix now.
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