ARCHIE Movie in the Works, Phil Lord and Chris Miller Producing

At this point, in the year of our gourd 2025, if Phil Lord and Chris Miller are selling, I’m buying. The pair of producers (and writers and directors) have given us some of the most interesting riffs on popular works we’ve ever seen. 21 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The LEGO Movie, and of course the Spider-Verse movies are all really great, smart and singular takes on the material. So, do I necessarily want or need a movie based on the 85-plus-year-old Archie Comics series? Not at all. But if Lord and Miller are doing it, I’m in. And they are.Archie Comics

According to Variety, the pair will produce an Archie Comics live-action movie along with Aditya Sood, president of their production company Lord Miller, through their first-look deal with Universal Pictures. Comic book author and apparent architectural pillar of the new DCU, Tom King, is writing the script.

“We are longtime fans of Archie, Veronica, Betty, and the gang in all of their iterations,” said Lord and Miller. “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. We’re so excited to bring these beloved characters to the big screen.”

We have to assume King’s take on the material will stand apart from the recent CW Riverdale series, which went in a very different direction. Nor do we imagine it will head down the dark horror angle of DC Comics’ Chilling Adventures of Sabrina or Afterlife with Archie comics. So what could it be? Something akin to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie definitely could work.

Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. He hosts the weekly pop culture deep-dive podcast Laser Focus. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Letterboxd.

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