Update: Start of filming pushed to March 19th.
The Riverdale family expands with a new series. Look for a dark take on teenage witch Sabrina to start filming in Vancouver in [mid-March].
Developed as a potential Riverdale spinoff for The CW, the new series instead goes straight to Netflix with a two season order of 20 episodes.
First concept art for #sabrina is coming in and looks FANTASTIC & chilling. Thrilled to be working with @Malicebot. pic.twitter.com/r0wJipEmTJ
— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) December 22, 2017
Like Riverdale’s adaption of the Archie comics, Sabrina will be a darker story about the young teen who’s half-witch, half-mortal. Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre Sacasa shared a page of the first script with Sabrina Spellman showing her boyfriend Harvey Kinkle where she was born in the woods.
I… wanted you to see where I was born, Harvey. Not in Greendale General, like it says on my birth certificate. Here. In this grove of trees. Almost sixteen years ago. … And, uhm, where I’ll be reborn this Saturday night. On my birthday. At the stroke of midnight. In the middle of a — a penumbral lunar eclipse. The kind that only happens once every sixty-six years. … That’s why I can’t go to Rosalind’s Halloween party this weekend.
Who would you cast as this Sabrina?
In the comics, Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a lighter character who lives with her two aunts, who are witches themselves, and the family pet Salem, who used to be a witch before she was turned into a cat. Most of her adventures involve Sabrina secretly helping others with her powers. Her boyfriend Harvey doesn’t know she’s a witch. None of her classmates do in Greendale, a town not far from Archie’s Riverdale.
Lee Toland Krieger will direct Roberto Aguiree-Sacasa’s first Sabrina script produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater and Aguirre-Sacasa.
Sabrina is expected to film in metro Vancouver from March 19th to December 5th.
Sources: Production Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter.