Ben Goes To the Dark Side In New 'Descendants 2' Cast Pic!

Ben (Mitchell Hope) looks just like a villain kid in this first promo pic from Descendants 2

Posing along with Mal (Dove Cameron), Evie (Sofia Carson), Carlos (Cameron Boyce) and Jay (Booboo Stewart), King Ben doesn’t look like he’s from Auradon at all!

In the upcoming sequel, the story deepens in the music-driven sequel to the global smash hit Descendants, as the teenage sons and daughters of Disney’s most infamous villains — Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay — try to find their place in idyllic Auradon. When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she returns to her rotten roots on the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, the daughter of Ursula, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen of the run-down town.

Uma (China Anne McClain), still resentful over not being selected by Ben to go to Auradon Prep with the other Villain Kids, stirs her pirate gang — including Captain Hook’s son Harry (Thomas Doherty) and Gaston’s son Gil (Dylan Playfair) — to break the barrier between the Isle of the Lost and Auradon, and unleash all the villains imprisoned on the Isle, once and for all.

Descendants 2 will premiere in 2017 on Disney Channel.