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.
Kiernan Shipka is Sabrina Spellman.
Welcome to the @SabrinaHorror family, Keirnan Shipka! Fair warning, It’s gonna get weird AF. pic.twitter.com/m3qj87EovM
— Robert Hack (@Robert_Hack) January 6, 2018
The Mad Men alumnus begins her dark education as a teenage sorceress on March 19th in Vancouver.
Based on the graphic novel, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the new Netflix series will tell the story of a half-mortal, half-witch teen trying to balance a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High in Greendale with her role as protector of the town against dark forces.
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.
Last Fall, 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.
Concept art.
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, Deadline: Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter, BC Production List.