At this point, in the year of our gourd 2025, if Phil Lord and Chris Miller are selling, I’m buying. The pair of producers (and writers and directors) have given us some of the most interesting riffs on popular works we’ve ever seen. 21 Jump Street , Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs , The LEGO Movie , and of course the Spider-Verse movies are all really great, smart and singular takes on the material. So, do I necessarily want or need a movie based on the 85-plus-year-old Archie Comics series? Not at all. But if Lord and Miller are doing it, I’m in. And they are.

According to Variety , the pair will produce an Archie Comics live-action movie along with Aditya Sood, president of their production company Lord Miller, through their first-look deal with Universal Pictures. C

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