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Don’t Expect “Riverdale” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” to Crossover
Originally, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” was to air on The CW as a companion to “Riverdale,“ both based on Archie Comics characters and storylines. What ended up happening, however, was that “Sabrina” was moved to Netflix, where it will premiere on October 26th.
So then, will the two shows ever bleed together, despite airing in different places? Don’t count on it says Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the man behind both “Sabrina” and “Riverdale.”
Deadline reports out of the ongoing Television Critics Association summer press tour, “All morning long CW president Mark Pedowitz said that there wasn’t any Riverdale-Sabrina crossovers in the work on the CW. Likewise, no one from Riverdale will make a cameo on the Netflix series when it drops at the end of October.”
Why, you ask?
“I think right now we’re just making sure that the shows have their own identities and own set-of-rules,” says Aguirre-Sacasa.
Based on the Archie Comics graphic novel The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” promises to be a much darker vision than the Melissa Joan Hart-starring television series from the late ’90s. The series is set to be an hour-long drama that will reimagine the story of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age tale that traffics in horror, the occult and witchcraft.
“Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.”
Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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