The CW recently announced that they are currently developing The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. This is a horror series which is based on Archie characters that re-envisions the origins of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
This series comes from Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schecter, but there is still no indication if this is a stand-alone or a spinoff. It may even coexist and not be directly linked to the main show.
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina reimagines origins and adventures of Sabrina as a dark coming-of-age story that is sunk in horror, the occult, and witchcraft. In this adaptation, Sabrina wrestles to reconcile her dual nature which is half-witch and half-mortal. She also stands against evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight humans inhabit.
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, was a family-friendly sitcom for 7 seasons in the ’90s and 2000s. The series’ star, Melissa Joan Hart, said that she heard a reboot of the same was being mulled.
Riverdale showrunner and Archie Chief Creative Officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will write and executive produce. Aguirre-Sacasa has been fielding questions for one year with an increased intensity after a season finale that had a Sabrina Easter egg but not, as many fans had hoped, an appearance by the character in the flesh.
“Aguirre-Sacasa told ComicBook.com. , “The truth is, we did talk a lot about introducing Sabrina, but she’s such an important character and it’s such a big idea to introduce the supernatural into a natural world that honestly when we got to the finale, we kind of realized that there was so much stuff to play that if we introduced Sabrina, it would kind of overshadow everything that we had planned.”
“We are going to continue exploring the idea of the supernatural being on the fringes of Riverdale, and that might be to lead up to Sabrina’s arrival or that might just be to make it more like Twin Peaks and the way they dealt with the supernatural.”
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is being eyed for the 2018–19 television season as a companion to Riverdale.
