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Archie Andrews, America's oldest teenager, is coming to the big screen in a live-action movie by comic writer Tom King and producers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Aditya Sood of the animated Spider-Verse franchise.
Not much has been revealed about the Riverdale gang's upcoming foray into film, which is part of Lord and Miller's first look deal with Universal Pictures after what is described as a "competitive auction."
"We are longtime fans of Archie, Veronica, Betty, and the gang in all of their iterations. When we heard Tom King's take on the classic material, we instantly thought it made sense as an event movie for all audiences – both lifelong fans and a whole new generation," say Lord and Miller in a joint statement. "We're so excited to bring these beloved characters to the big screen."
Archie first debuted all the way back in 1941, and since then, he and his pals from the all-American town of Riverdale have consistently appeared in their own comics, while also having been previously adapted as a series of different animated series as well as the cult CW show Riverdale, which took the concept in a much darker, more melodramatic direction.
The gang was also the subject of the notoriously sub-par 1990 live-action made for TV movie Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again, about a grown up Archie Andrews returning to his hometown.
"Archie is about how we find the meaning of life in our love and the meaning of love in our life," King says. "And also about how incredibly hungry Jughead is. Like so hungry."
I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011, and now I'm the Entertainment Writer at GamesRadar+. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)
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