Sawyer
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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.
Gonna go ahead and assume this is a decent indicator of Riverdale's survival past just this season.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, thats Archie. Same goes for Riverdale on TV. And thats 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 youd move on to different stuff from different publishers. Thats not the case anymore.
Outside of the core Archie characters or satellite properties like Sabrina or Josie and the Pussycats 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?
Its part of the plan. Archie is unique in that we have a huge library of characters that are not only recognizable, but theyre 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 cant wait to start talking about what we have coming up.
Where next for Archie, as a whole?
Were now a multiplatform company. Were not just publishing. We have television and were 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 cant get complacent and we cant 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 wont 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.
