Overview
- Disney+ officially gave the series a green light on Monday, July 20, 2026, and the streamer is targeting a premiere window around Halloween 2027.
- Roberto Aguirre‑Sacasa wrote the hourlong script and will executive-produce alongside Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, Jimmy Gibbons and Jon Goldwater.
- The show will adapt the bestselling comic by Aguirre‑Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla and reimagines Riverdale as a zombie-overrun town after a teen-witch’s spell backfires.
- The order moves the project out of its 2025 script-to-series phase into formal production planning, with no casting, episode count or filming schedule announced yet.
- Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions will produce for Disney+, marking an early studio-to-streamer collaboration that expands the Archie live-action universe and signals more mature fare for the service.