Beautiful and pink-adoring Sophie dreams of attending the School for Good, finding true love, and becoming a princess.

Meanwhile, her best friend Agatha, who lives on Grave's Hill, is withdrawn, and not stereotypically pretty, is deemed the perfect candidate for the School for Evil.

At the Welcoming Ceremony, Sophie becomes smitten with King Arthur's son, Tedros of Camelot, who also takes notice of her.

The School Master tells them to return home they must solve a riddle; what does Good have but Evil never will; the answer is true love's kiss.

Before Tedros is to kiss Sophie and send the two girls home, she rebuts him, as she does not desire a quiet life in Gavaldon.

Sophie begins her final transformation into evil when Tedros asks Agatha to be his princess: she loses - and then forsakes - her perfect beauty and attacks the School for Good.

He believes that Sophie is his true love, and her kiss will restore Evil's glory by proving the riddle he provided her with wrong and achieving "Never After".

This triggers a wave of mysterious attacks on Sophie, which threaten the entire village and cause the two girls to be run out of town.

At the School for Boys, Tedros is seeking revenge upon Sophie for supposedly stealing his true love.

Sophie and Agatha flee, and, believing the princess and witch had together conspired to kill him, Tedros demands a Trial by Tale between the two schools.

In the wake of Sophie and the School Master's kiss, Evil has been shown capable of love and "Never After", and all the previous fairy tale villains are given a second chance.

Sophie refuses and returns to Rafal; the two sides begin to prepare for a war on the night the sun will melt completely.

Afterwards, Sophie becomes the Dean of the School for Evil, feeling content with her new life; Agatha and Tedros arrive at Camelot, seeking to restore it to its former glory.

When a mysterious villain known as "the Snake" emerges, terrorising the land the old friends must work together to save the Endless Woods.

A false king has claimed the throne of Camelot, sentenced Tedros to death, and forced Sophie to be his queen.

Agatha and the students at the School for Good and Evil must find a way to restore Tedros to his throne and save Camelot before all of their fairy tales come to a lethal end.

The attempts drive the brothers apart, creating a rift that threatens the balance of Good and Evil in the Endless Woods.

Rhian and Rafal both lay separate claims to the School while Peter Pan attempts to kill them both.

After a long and arduous battle, Peter is killed by the Storian, while Rhian and Rafal go to confront it on who will be the School Master.

When Soman Chainani was younger, he did not have access to cable, the Internet, or video games; he only had a TV and VHS tapes of Walt Disney Animation Studios's films, many of which were based on classic fairy tales.

At university, the difference between the original stories and Disney's versions captivated him when he took a class about the history of fairy tales.

[5] Disney took the original fairy tales — filled with complexity and darkness and often horror — and essentially pasteurized them to make them more entertaining, and arguably more "appropriate" for children.

I'm always struck by the fact that the original Grimms' stories often spoke loudest to older teenaged readers, while Disney tries to peddle these tales to a younger audience, often by changing the core of the story.Chainani first began working on The School for Good and Evil in June 2010.

In this way, by creating his own series, he aimed to dispel the commonly held stereotypes and deliver an original tale devoid of cliches.

[7] When he first began working on The School for Good and Evil, Chainani expected it to become a treatment for a screenplay he could sell.

[6] According to its editorial director—Phoebe Yeh—she "knew in [her] gut that [the company] were going to have a winner" from the novel's first sentence, being "blown away" by the originality, premise, characters, lore, and language.

In addition, Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne and Michelle Yeoh all have supporting roles in the film.