Disney+ Could Turn Archie’s Zombie Apocalypse Into Your Next Binge—But Will Riverdale Survive the Undead Takeover?
Added on August 20, 2025 inEntertainment News Cards, Movie News Cards
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Archie Andrews has been everyone’s favorite all-American boy since 1941, but just when you thought Riverdale was the darkest twist on his legacy, bam!—we’re diving headfirst into zombie territory with Afterlife with Archie. Now, considering Mercury’s doing gymnastics in Scorpio today, isn’t it fitting that Archie and pals are about to navigate an apocalypse of the undead kind? Talk about cosmic timing for chaos! While we’ve snoozed through a quiet post-Riverdale era, two Archie projects are bursting back onto the scene—one, a slick movie by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and now, a gritty Disney+ series adaptation of that spine-chilling, Zombie-Riverdale comic. With Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa back at the helm, stepping from teen drama to TEEN+ terror, this could turn out to be a wild ride nobody saw coming. Ready to reconsider your lunch choices when Riverdale’s on the brink of a zombie outbreak? I know I am. LEARN MORE
The comic book character Archie Andrews was created in 1941 by publisher John L. Goldwater and artist Bob Montana, in collaboration with writer Vic Bloom, but one of his most popular iterations was in the TV series Riverdale, a show that had a harder edge than the average Archie comic book. Created by by Archie Comics’ chief creative officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Riverdale ran on The CW for seven seasons, from 2017 to 2023. It’s been a quiet couple of years since Riverdale went off the air, but now there appears to be two Archie projects in development at the same time. We just shared the news that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are producing an Archie movie for Universal, and now we can also share that industry scooper Jeff Sneider of The InSneider is reporting that a series adaptation of the zombie outbreak comic Afterlife with Archie is in the works at Disney+.
Riverdale was produced by Warner Bros. Television Studios, and Sneider reports that “Warner Bros. tried to stake a claim to the Archie IP in perpetuity based on a loose reading of the contract for Riverdale. Goldwater and his agents spent more than a year extricating him and Archie Comics from the Warner Bros. contract, though WB got to hang onto Afterlife with Archie as part of the deal.” So Goldwater is still working with the studio to bring this story to the screen. While Netflix and Amazon pursued the project, Disney+ came out the winner in the race for the rights and Disney Television Studios is partnering with Warner Bros. Television Studios to produce the show.
Aguirre-Sacasa wrote the Afterlife with Archie comic book and will serve as showrunner on the series. The story takes place in an alternate reality where the town of Riverdale faces a zombie outbreak. Wikipedia notes that the comic was the first Archie title not to be aimed at children and is rated “TEEN+”, as it includes content and subject matter never explored in any previous Archie title, including extensive realistic violence, some gore, necrotic themes, disturbing scenes, and moderate language. Disney+ executive Charlie Andrews is said to be planning to develop the show over the next year, with the goal of getting it greenlit by next summer.
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