RIVERDALE: Archie is coming to FOX...

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The producer of ARROW and THE FLASH and the writer of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE (also Archie Comics' creative director) are bringing Archie and the gang (as well as other characters, including Josie & the Pussycats) to FOX.

deadline.com/2014/10/archie-comics-series-riverdale-greg-berlanti-roberto-aguirre-sacasa-fox-858971/

After Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl, Greg Berlanti is helping bring another set of iconic comic book characters to television: Archie, Betty and Veronica, Josie and the Pussycats. Riverdale, a drama based on the characters from the Archie comics, has landed at Fox with a script deal plus penalty. Warner Bros TV is producing with with studio-based Berlanti Productions.

Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics, Riverdale is named after the fictional town where most Archie Comics characters reside and which will serve as the setting for the show. Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade.

Here are more details on the Archie characters who will take the leap to TV: The series will showcase the eternal love triangle of Archie Andrews, girl-next-door Betty Cooper and rich socialite Veronica Lodge and will include the entire cast of characters from the comic books — including Archie’s rival Reggie Mantle and slacker best friend Jughead Jones. Popular gay character Kevin Keller also will play a pivotal role, with other characters from Archie Comics’ expansive library also slated to appear, including Josie and the Pussycats.

[BorneAgain]

Scene from the pilot:

[Michael Coello]

the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Archie's had his fair share of heavier and/or subversive stories in alternate continuities, so the show's got a bar to reach.

[Sephiroth]

[pegasuswarrior]

An imprint of a flyswatter in his hair or I riot.

[Lupin the Third]

They better get the best looking red-head to play Cheryl Blossom. Otherwise, no dice.

[BlackoutCreature]

I just watched the old black and white Archie pilot the other day. It was like some kind of weird, 60's version of Saved by the Bell. I want this new show to be exactly like that.

[Nikki Heyman]

So is this one at least going to be high school, or later down the road like that weird live-action special they did some years back?

[DSR]

I sorta dig the quasi-X-Files vibe of "Archie's Weird Mysteries" from the late 90s.

[Deleted]

Archie is going to be beating guys off non-stop on this thing

[Welfare Willis]

[JTG Fan]

[lildude8218]

[Tiger Millionaire]

Oct 23, 2014 16:44:37 GMT -5 @knapp said:

The producer of ARROW and THE FLASH and the writer of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE (also Archie Comics' creative director) are bringing Archie and the gang (as well as other characters, including Josie & the Pussycats) to FOX.

deadline.com/2014/10/archie-comics-series-riverdale-greg-berlanti-roberto-aguirre-sacasa-fox-858971/

Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade.

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[kevin]

Sabrina already made a successful live action show there is no reason Archie could not as well.

[wisdomwizard]

So people who are trashing this already didn't read the parts where it said the producers of The Flash and Arrow along with Archie's creative director, I take it?


Sounds fine with me. I just hope that if it's good Fox will let it have more than one season. I mean, if the writing does well enough this could become the American equivalent to Canada's Degrassi. No, Glee does not count (and I actually liked what little I've watched of it).

[AFN: Judge Shred]

I have faith in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Dude is pretty amazing.

[J]

Who knows maybe it'll work this time.
Every so often I have to Google the Archie tv movie that was on in the early 90s on NBC. Just to make sure it was an actual thing and I didn't make it up.

[Urethra Franklin]

PLOT IDEA:

Mr. Weatherbee is dying of cancer and to make sure that his family has money to live off of when he's gone, he begins to cook meth with Jughead.