The duo behind the Spider-verse movies are headed to Riverdale.
In line with The Wrap, Phil Lord and Chris Miller will produce a brand new film based mostly on Archie Comics, written by none different DC Comics stalwart Tom King. King has beforehand written for Archie, penning the 2024 one-shot The Choice during which Archie Andrews lastly decides who to quiet down with, Betty or Veronica.
“We’re longtime followers of Archie, Veronica, Betty and the gang in all of their iterations,” Lord and Miller mentioned in an announcement to The Wrap. “After we heard Tom King’s tackle the traditional materials, we immediately thought it made sense as an occasion film for all audiences — each lifelong followers and a complete new technology. We’re so excited to deliver these beloved characters to the massive display screen.”
Taking up Archie is an enchanting gamble for Lord and Miller, who’ve had loads of success turning unlikely IP into blockbuster fare. The 2 broke out of TV animation after directing the 2 Cloudy with a Probability of Meatballs motion pictures. They jumped to live-action with the self-aware comedy-forward 21 Leap Road, momentarily directed Solo: A Star Wars Story, then discovered a groove overseeing the extremely influential Into the Spider-verse and Throughout the Spider-verse for Sony. They just lately directed 2026’s Mission Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling. Whereas the information would not clarify whether or not their Archie film can be animated or live-action, both method, Lord and Miller do all of it, and nicely.
However what’s Archie to the plenty at this level? Two years faraway from The CW’s hit collection Riverdale, the property is a teen saga with limitless dream-logic prospects. In the meantime, Netflix just lately launched a Hindi-language musical model of Archie — that is elasticity. However the precise comics seem at a crossroads; the times of checking in on Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead’s on a whim in line on the grocery retailer is just about over, as adjustments in distributors and digest codecs have made it difficult to trace the tales, not to mention the publishing technique and launch schedule. (For extra: Heidi MacDonald at The Beat has completed an incredible job diving into the evolution of the model and the bleak prospects of its distribution.)
The success of Marvel motion pictures has proved that the viability of a personality to hit on the field workplace has little to do with its marketability as the quilt star of a paperback (though the MCU appears to have had a optimistic influence on precise comics gross sales). Lord and Miller see life for Archie on the massive display screen. Possibly that is what saves the Archie of yore from going utterly out of print.
