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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.”
The third trailer for creator Ryan Murphy’s “The Shards”, based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, laments how hard kids had it in 1981.
To be fair, there’s a serial killer on the loose and a lot of backstabbing in the trailer below.
Look for “The Shards” to premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5 at 6 p.m. PT.
Igby Rigney (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Homer Gere (“The Agency”), Graham Campbell, Kaia Gerber (Shell), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Igby Rigney, Wes Bentley, and Hayes Warner star.
Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
In the series, Rigney will portray Ellis, and Campbell will play Thom. Gere, son of actor Richard Gere, has been cast as Robert Mallory. Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (“American Horror Story,“ “Grotesquerie”) is attached to direct.
The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.
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