Spider-Verse’ producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are behind the studio pic based on the Archie comic books about Archie, Veronica, Betty and their friends, with Archie Comics producing.

Meanwhile, Sneider further reports that Disney is potentially developing its own Archie adaptation, based on the Afterlife With Archie zombie horror series, for Disney+, with Riverdale creator (and Afterlife writer) Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa reportedly set to showrun.

And so just two years after the Archie Comics television series Riverdale ended its seven-season run, Universal Pictures is developing a new Archie film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Christopher Miller and Phil Lord will direct the film,

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are producing a live-action Archie Comics movie from "Lanterns" screenwriter Tom King.

"We’re so excited to bring these beloved characters to the big screen," Phil Lord and Christopher Miller said in a statement

Archie Comics' November 2025 solicits and solicitations see the Josie and the Pussycats Annual Spectacular from Dan Parent, and a Facsimile Edition of the very first appearance of Sabrina the Teenage Witch from Frank Doyle and Dan DeCarlo. Well, they have to do something if they aren't publishing all those Archie Digests any more, I guess…