Archie Zombie Movie

[Vivek]

AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE Zombie Movie Being Developed with Jason Moore Set to Direct | Collider

I always wanted to see a Archie feature film since I was a kid and as much as I love the zombie genre, I wish we got a regular Archie and the gang movie first instead.

 

[cokebabies]

Have you never seen the atrocity that is To Riverdale and Back Again?

 

[Vivek]

Yes I have and I consider that movie to be a bad dream which is better forgotten .

I remember getting that movie in the early 90s at the video store and being disappointed just looking at the cover with the grown up version of the characters. I saw the movie then but hardly remembered anything, few years ago I revisited the movie and remembered why I had forgotten it.

 

[cokebabies]

I grew up on Archie, big time. When this movie aired on (I think) ABC, I was grounded at the time. I was devastated by not being allowed to see it.

Then, when I did on video... jeez. This hardly even qualifies as "so bad, it's good". It's just bad.

 

[cokebabies]

But as for the zombie thing - bleh. Archie's weird gimmicks to stay relevant the past 20ish years have led to some strange and depressing things.

 

[Vivek]

Live Action ARCHIE COMICS Film Coming From AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE Writer | Badass Digest

The movie script writer is Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa who also is writing the upcoming Archie book "Afterlife With Archie", that deals with zombies. His connection to that zombie book led many to speculate that the live action film will be dealing with zombies as well. But that may or may not be the case after all.

 

[karamazov80]

I never cared much for Archie, but it was always a comic/cartoon geared toward kids when I was younger. With the zombies, this has to be going for teens/adults instead, which seems odd somehow.

 

[youbastards]

Have you never seen the atrocity that is To Riverdale and Back Again?

Isn't that the subtitle of one of the Hobbit movies?

 

[cokebabies]

I never cared much for Archie, but it was always a comic/cartoon geared toward kids when I was younger. With the zombies, this has to be going for teens/adults instead, which seems odd somehow.

Yeah, whenever Archie attempted to step outside its wheelhouse of simple, old fashioned family humor, it tended to stumble.

In the 90's, Archie Comics went off the rails. They changed Jughead from a sexless, hamburger-eating oddball into a "cool" ladies man on a skateboard. They had a mini-series that involved Archie vs Reggie racing RC Cars across the country. Then they met the Punisher. Not in the same storyline, mind you.

Isn't that the subtitle of one of the Hobbit movies?

Tolkien has said many times his writing was influenced by Archie Comics. Gandalf is just a shameful ripoff of Professor Flutesnoot.

In order to increase the page length of The Hobbit to be comparable to the LOTR trilogy, he padded some editions with word jumbles and crossword puzzles, an idea taken from Archie Story and Game digests.

 

[karamazov80]

Yeah, my favorite unfinished work of his has to be: "From Rivendell to Riverdale: Archie and Hobbits vs. Alien Werewolves"

 

[cokebabies]

Yeah, my favorite unfinished work of his has to be: "From Rivendell to Riverdale: Archie and Hobbits vs. Alien Werewolves"

Soon to be a nine part theatrical release, starting Christmas 2015.