Sawyer
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Anybody here ever read the classic MAD magazine Archie parody from the 60s, 'Starchie Standrews'? It's pretty funny..
I watched the Archie's America cartoons on Saturday mornings in the early 70s and read several of their comics. Our church had the Christian-themed ones. I distinctly remember the Robin Hood parody they did, and the story where Reggie almost died from food poisoning...
I'm pretty skeptical that they can turn this into a live action movie. What living human being looks like Jughead??
That movie was nothing like the comics. One of the worst INO movies ever.
(BTW, shouldn't this thread be in the Misc Comics Film board?)
I read the synopsis on Wikipedia and according to that the trouble starts when jughead ask for Sabrina's help when hot dog is accidently killed by reggie's car I always thought archie ad co. DIDN'T know about Sabrina's witchcraft powersArchie versus zombies... I guess they had to do something to spice up this comic adaptation to make it stand out from every other movie with the same premise as Archie.
CBR News: Roberto, you've been Archie's Chief Creative Officer for a few months now -- is this something you've been working on for most of that time?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: It's something that had its origins actually a couple years back, from when I first started working with Archie and [Archie Comics Publisher/Co-CEO] Jon Goldwater. The idea was always to try to get some live-action projects up and running, much the way that Marvel was doing it, and much the way that DC Comics was starting. In fact, the first time Jon and I met, it was to talk about possibly doing a movie of "Archie." You may remember that a year ago, we announced that we were working on an Archie movie for Warner Bros. In fact, that is what has morphed into the "Riverdale" TV show. We sold "Archie" to Warner Bros., and then as we were developing the script and working with Warner Bros., who were great partners, we realized two things -- that there were thousands of different stories to tell with these characters; and that rather than a big, superhero extravaganza like "The Avengers" or "Batman v Superman," that really the bread and butter of the Archie characters was more intimate, and a little bit smaller scale. Coming of age, love triangle, that kind of stuff.
When one of the executives that we were working with at Warner Bros., the movie division, moved to start working with Greg Berlanti -- who has a deal at Warner Bros. Television -- we thought, actually, this might be a much, much, much, much better fit. But we didn't want to talk about it until we could announce it. It's been morphing, and we've been working on it for a year and a half. That's kind of how this came about.
The way we started in "Afterlife," learning stuff about Mr. Lodge, the way we explore the weirdness of Cheryl and Jason Blossom -- the Blossoms are going to be characters on our show as well.