{"id":28645,"date":"2013-06-06T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=28645"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T21:18:06","slug":"archie-andrews-coming-to-the-big-screen-with-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/06\/archie-andrews-coming-to-the-big-screen-with-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Andrews Coming To The Big Screen….With Zombies!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"afterlife_with_archie_cover_francavilla_low\"<\/a> Over the last few years, Archie Comics has garnered a lot of mainstream attention for stories starring its namesake character, Archie Andrews. Whether it be introducing an openly gay character by the name of Kevin Keller, have Archie engage in an interracial relationship with Valerie\u00a0of Josie and the Pussycats,\u00a0or to\u00a0provide an alternate reality look at what Archie’s life would be like if he married new love Valerie or old girlfriends Betty and Veronica, Archie has been in the news a lot lately. So it’s especially humorous to me that the only time Archie get Hollywood’s attention is when he had to face down a zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n

Collider<\/a>\u00a0reports that Warner Brothers has signed a deal with the comic company to adapt the Afterlife with Archie<\/strong>\u00a0comic for the big screen. The comic, one part of the Archie Comics vast\u00a0media empire,\u00a0features stories where Archie and the Riverdale gang encounter horror concepts like The Stand<\/strong>, The Evil Dead <\/strong>and, yes, the zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n

The writer of the comic, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, will be writing\u00a0the screenplay and\u00a0Pitch Perfect<\/strong>‘s Jason Moore is set to direct.<\/p>\n

Fun fact: Aguirre-Sacasa faced legal action from Archie Comics in 2003 over a play he wrote called Archie’s Private Fantasy<\/strong>. The comic company\u00a0sent a cease and desist letter to\u00a0an Atlanta theater that was\u00a0about to put up the show, which featured a gay Archie, stating that the play would “dilute and tarnish his image.” The playwright reworked the play into Golden Age<\/strong> and turned Archie Andrews into a near-duplicate pastiche called “Buddy Baxter.”\u00a0 The show was put up on Off-Broadway back in 2005 with no known squabbles from Archie Comics. It’s good to see the two sides move past that little dust up and go on to make a bunch of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It also gives Warner Brothers the opportunity to screw up another comic company’s characters for a change. <\/div>\n

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