Greg Berlanti has had a lot of success with DC properties being brought to the screen, with series like Supergirl, The Flash, and Arrow… what to do for an encore?
Easy: He’s taking on another comic book classic, with writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
Riverdale was originally in development for FOX, but now it’s being considered for The CW, and TV Line yesterday got a hold of some casting breakdowns. You can read their whole post here. Here’s what they wrote about all four:
ARCHIE ANDREWS | A high school sophomore, the redhead is still boyishly handsome but “pumped and looking good after working construction for his dad during the summer.” Archie is grappling with heavy issues and juggling the interest of several girls while discovering his passion for writing and performing music against his father and his football coach’s better wishes. Oh, and he’s harboring more than one dark, terrible secret.
BETTY COOPER | The blonde and pretty sophomore is described as having “some self-esteem issues and affinity for Adderall.” Eager-to-please, wholesome and studious, Betty has a super-crush on her longtime best bud, Archie. But tired of being the “perfect” everything, she turns to her new friend, Veronica, for life advice. Betty has an emotionally brittle mom, a goth-like sister and a coveted spot on the cheerleading squad — though with certain conditions….
VERONICA LODGE | Producers are aiming to ideally cast a Latina as this “silver-tongued” stunner, who has just returned to Riverdale from New York following a scandal which resulted in her father going to prison. Extremely intelligent, self-confident and immediately popular, Veronica is eager to reinvent herself — from Mean Girl to caring friend.
JUGHEAD JONES | A hearing-impaired actor is being sought to play Jughead as an “emo-heartthrob.” The lanky lad is Archie’s former best friend, seeing as the two still are smarting from a rift that took place between them. Angry, but with a philosophical bent, Jughead “refuses to take the olive branch being proffered by Archie, the hurt goes that deep.”
Hearing-impaired Jughead? A world where Hiram Lodge is in prison and not in Riverdale? We’ll have to see with these character changes… in any event, Riverdale is in development for Fall 2016 on The CW…. and if the casting directors have not yet called Cameron Monaghan, they really should do it soon.
