CW's Archie Comics TV Show "Riverdale" Thread

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Jello Biafra said:
If these spoilers are true...this show has potential for truly major fukkery.

1. Jughead is homeless and his estranged father is the leader of Riverdale's most notorious gang, the Southside Serpents. Veronica's father Hiram Lodge has hired them to wreak havoc in Riverdale in order to lower property prices so he can buy the town once he gets out of jail, and Veronica's mother is in on the plan.

2.Betty's older sister Polly had a nervous breakdown while dating Jason and Betty has a dissociative state when she doesn't take her meds and begins calling herself "Polly" and dressing and acting like her. Dark Betty almost kills Chuck Clayton in episode 3

3.Betty's mother hates Archie because he reminds her of Jason and is obsessed with destroying Archie before he can "corrupt" Betty. It is also heavily implied that she and Veronica's mother were in a love triangle with Archie's father back in their high school days.

4.The big twist is that Jason didn't die when he supposedly disappeared during his boat trip with Cheryl. He was held captive for roughly a week before being executed. Dilton fired the gunshot. He was illegally training his scouts to shoot. Also it's implied Cheryl and Jason were incestuous with each other.

5.Miss Grundy isn't the real Miss Grundy either, she's a con woman who killed the old Miss Grundy to steal her identity and lay low from the cops. This fact will be unearthed by Betty and Archie takes this very badly.

6. Betty and Veronica try boiling someone alive in episode 3.

7. The Archie/Veronica/Betty triangle will slowly build up throughout the first season. In the meantime Betty and Jughead will be dating by episode 8 and Archie isn't affected by this relationship in any way. Archie/Valarie (the other girl in the girl band) will also date. Archie/Veronica will butt heads over something.

8. Archie will be forming his own musical band.

9. Archie chooses Betty despite having feelings for Veronica.

10. Archie's father Fred once rejected Betty's mother Alice in high school. He is later arrested for Jason's murder after police determines it was his gun that was used to kill Jason, which causes Archie's mother Mary to return to Riverdale.

11. Betty believes her mother Alice killed Jason Blossom, but it was actually her father Hal, who wanted revenge against Jason for Polly's breakdown. He framed Fred out of revenge because Alice still had feelings for Fred.

12. Veronica's father Hiram has been working with Jughead's father FP Jones, a local gang leader, to lower local property prices so he can seize control of Riverdale. The family's butler Smithers has secretly been acquiring said properties under ghost companies and Hiram is ultimately released and return to Riverdale as the richest man in town.

13. Archie and the gang find out the Blossoms were occultists and Jason attempted to fake his death to escape from their influence. Polly had a breakdown after learning about the Blossoms's activities.

14. Jughead finds out that there are legends of supernatural forces in the woods surrounding Riverdale and that innocent blood spilled on Sweetwater Lake is said to be the key to awaken powerful forces. It is made clear that Jason being killed and dumped in Sweetwater Lake is a unwittingly a perfect reproduction of the ritual.

15. Final scene of the season is Sabrina ominously arriving at Pop's shop while Jughead reads about the results of the ritual in voice-over and how "chaos follows". She introduces herself and immediately afterwards there's a car crash just outside. Everyone steps outside to help while Sabrina flashes a smile.
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:whoo: First 3 episodes have been pretty good but it sounds like the rest of this season is going to be flames.


Didn't realize 15 was in this same universe...... :lupe:
 
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More Archie TV shows are on the way

More Archie TV shows are on the way

Nobody really expected The CW’s Riverdale to be good, but apparently the core characters of the Archie universe are so universally appealing that even a weirdo Twin Peaks-style murder mystery with them can become a hit. Evidently emboldened by the success of Riverdale, Archie Comics has just announced that it has signed a deal with Warner Bros. Television to bring even more of its characters and stories to TV. That’s according to The Hollywood Reporter, which says the deal doesn’t just cover the Archie characters, but also the company’s Dark Circle superheroes and “America’s Queen Of Pin-Ups And Fashions” Katy Keene.

The Hollywood Reporter story doesn’t have a ton of other concrete details about this arrangement, but it does say Archie Comics’ deal with Warner Bros. is “similar” to the one it has with DC Comics, which has spawned a ton of hit shows in the last few years (most of them on The CW). That seems to suggest that a larger Archie-based TV universe is possible, which might line up with Riverdale showrunner Robert Aguirre-Sacasa’s desire to do something with Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

In other Archie Comics news, the publisher has announced that current Archie writer Mark Waid will be expanding his role at the company by co-writing a number of additional books and by “mentoring upcoming writers” in order to improve “the current stable of talent at the company.”
 
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Ghostwriter said:
More Archie TV shows are on the way

More Archie TV shows are on the way

Nobody really expected The CW’s Riverdale to be good, but apparently the core characters of the Archie universe are so universally appealing that even a weirdo Twin Peaks-style murder mystery with them can become a hit. Evidently emboldened by the success of Riverdale, Archie Comics has just announced that it has signed a deal with Warner Bros. Television to bring even more of its characters and stories to TV. That’s according to The Hollywood Reporter, which says the deal doesn’t just cover the Archie characters, but also the company’s Dark Circle superheroes and “America’s Queen Of Pin-Ups And Fashions” Katy Keene.

The Hollywood Reporter story doesn’t have a ton of other concrete details about this arrangement, but it does say Archie Comics’ deal with Warner Bros. is “similar” to the one it has with DC Comics, which has spawned a ton of hit shows in the last few years (most of them on The CW). That seems to suggest that a larger Archie-based TV universe is possible, which might line up with Riverdale showrunner Robert Aguirre-Sacasa’s desire to do something with Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

In other Archie Comics news, the publisher has announced that current Archie writer Mark Waid will be expanding his role at the company by co-writing a number of additional books and by “mentoring upcoming writers” in order to improve “the current stable of talent at the company.”
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Original THR article:


The pact follows the success of the CW's 'Riverdale' and could see more of Archie's pals and gals heading to the small screen.

Everything's coming up Archie.

In the wake of the launch of Riverdale on the CW, Archie Comics has signed an exclusive deal with Warner Bros. Television to develop more of the publisher's properties for television and original content.

As Archie CEO Jon Goldwater tells The Hollywood Reporter, the deal extends beyond the traditional Riverdale crew of Archie, Betty and Veronica as seen in the current CW series. It could include lesser-known properties, including "America's Queen of Pin-Ups and Fashions" Katy Keene, as well as the superheroes of the company's Dark Circle imprint.

"Archie is unique in that we have a huge library of characters that are not only recognizable, but they’re successful and entertaining," Goldwater says.

Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa told reporters last month he was interested in creating a whole Archie world. The series, with its dark tone and sexy new murder mystery plot, has been a critical hit. The deal is similar to Warner Bros. TV's pact with DC Comics, which has seen it put a whole stable of series on the air, including CW's Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl, as well as Fox's Gotham and NBC's Powerless.

Riverdale's success and the TV pact marks the latest stage in Goldwater's push to modernize Archie as a company, which started with the 2010 introduction of Kevin Keller, the first openly gay character in the publisher's long history, and continued with the launch of a series that featured an adult Archie struggling with life post-marriage.

Coinciding with news of the Warner Bros. deal, Archie revealed that Mark Waid, the writer of flagship comic book series Archie, will be expanding his relationship with the company later this year by signing up to co-write a number of series, as well as mentoring upcoming writers, with the overall aim of growing the current stable of talent at the company.

"This opportunity is exciting to me for a number of reasons," Waid says about the new deal, which will be effective in May when he takes over writing the Jughead series with new co-writer Ian Flynn. "First, the chance to expand my role as a writer at Archie is terrific as we all share the same storytelling goals. Second, it allows me to exercise my editorial muscles, which — surprise — is why I got into comics in the first place. But most of all, the opportunity to help build a more diverse staff of writers, younger, eager to learn, and eager to teach me."

In a conversation with THR, Goldwater talks the new Warner Bros. TV deal, where Archie is as a company today — and where it's going next.

The success of Riverdale, and this new deal with Warners, feels like the culmination of Archie's renaissance as a company over the last few years. That's something that you've focused on since becoming CEO in 2009 — a modernization of everyone in Riverdale. Is there a sense of vindication in seeing the characters accepted once again by a mainstream audience?

Yes, there’s a huge sense of vindication. This deal with Warners is in many ways a culmination of the work, along with the amazing staff and freelancers who work at Archie, to bring these characters forward into the present day. To show that Archie is an iconic brand that is flexible, relevant and energized. It’s still Archie, and people want more of him and his friends. In the same way Batman can be dark, bright and funny or off-kilter, Archie can, too. He’s part of a pantheon of select characters and brands that are part of America. They’re part of the consciousness, so there’s a built-in knowledge there.

The transformation of the company has been a slow and steady one, but from today's perspective, it looks as if there's always been a long game at play. Was there an endgame for you even before the introduction of Kevin Keller or launch of Life With Archie: The Married Life that looked pretty much like where you've ended up?

When I first got to the company, there was a long period of "ramping up," for lack of a better term. We had to get up to speed. We had to make noise and not in a gimmicky way. We had to show people that Riverdale existed in today’s world. It wasn’t a retro, Pleasantville-type town. It was welcoming, it was diverse and it was now. We accomplished a lot of that with the introduction of characters like Kevin Keller, Archie/Valerie getting married, the New Kids and by just making an effort to diversify the cast. Once we did that, we knew we could widen the scope a bit, and show people that Archie could be Archie in a variety of settings. We could have an older Archie dealing with job woes and marital problems, we could bring Archie into alternate realities and face off against things like Predator or Sharknado. We could be fun again.

Was there a moment along the way when you heard a pitch, or saw a piece of art, and thought, "This is it, this is what we're heading toward?"

The moment where I could finally sit down and say “OK, now we’re ready to roll” was [2015's] Archie #1, by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples. This was ground zero for the company. This was a rebirth. This was an Archie for today’s reader. Obviously, we still cherish and respect the classic Archie stories — we still produce them because that audience is hugely important to us. But the Death of Archie was more than a publishing stunt. It was a metaphor for the company. That Archie had to die, saving Kevin Keller, the face of the new Archie brand, to ensure the company would continue. Look at the cover of Archie #1 by Fiona. That’s a direct connection between the comics and Riverdale. It was a long road to get to Riverdale, and it was a tough road.

The basic concept of Archie (and his pals and gals) is one that feels like a no-brainer for adaptation into other genres: it's a good guy in high school and his friends. You can go anywhere with that. But the comics had settled into one aesthetic, even while playing with things like Time Police or whatever. Was there ever a time when you worried that the characters were being pushed too far for the audience to follow?

As long as the story is good, obviously, and as long as the characters are true to themselves — you can do anything with them. The Archie in Afterlife and in the new Archie series is the same Archie you see in other comics. Sure, the content can change, but at its heart, that’s Archie. Same goes for Riverdale on TV. And that’s what unites fans. There was a time when Archie Comics only produced a certain kind of book. So, once you grew out of those books, you had nowhere to go. So you’d move on to different stuff from different publishers. That’s not the case anymore.

Outside of the core Archie characters — or satellite properties like Sabrina or Josie and the p*ssycats — the company has a number of other properties in its portfolio: Li'l Jinx, Katy Keene, the Dark Circle characters. Are there plans to bring any of these into production as part of the new deal?

It’s part of the plan. Archie is unique in that we have a huge library of characters that are not only recognizable, but they’re successful and entertaining. Everyone knows Josie and Sabrina. Beyond that, we have an entire pantheon of heroes and villains that are perfect for TV or movies. Not to mention Katy Keene, Black Hood, Sam Hill, just to name a few. The possibilities are endless, and I can’t wait to start talking about what we have coming up.

Where next for Archie, as a whole?

We’re now a multiplatform company. We’re not just publishing. We have television and we’re talking about animation and licensing and everything, really. We have to now bring the aesthetic and fearlessness that made the comics successful into everything we do, while still keeping the publishing fresh and surprising. We can’t get complacent and we can’t assume people will be with us. We have to continue to strive for quality in the stories we share with our fans and we have to look for opportunities to stand out from the crowd. But our strategy won’t change: to get these characters out there in the best way possible, and to provide our fans with the best stories they could ever imagine.
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See how Lili Reinhart transforms into the iconic Betty Cooper, presented by Covergirl. Riverdale is new Thursdays at 9/8c on The CW.
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See how Lili Reinhart transforms into the iconic Betty Cooper, presented by Covergirl. Riverdale is new Thursdays at 9/8c on The CW.
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