New Archie Comics Movie in Works

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the filmmakers behind “Spider-Verse,” “The Lego Movie” and “21 Jump Street,” are bringing Archie Comics to the big screen.

The duo will produce a new live-action film with Aditya Sood, president of their production company Lord Miller, through their first-look deal with Universal Pictures.

Comic book writer Tom King has been tapped to pen the screenplay.

Emma Watts, who brought the project to Lord Miller with King, will produce the project along with publisher Jon Goldwater.

Universal’s senior VP of production development Britt Hennemuth and director of production development Christine Sun will oversee the project for the studio.

Debuted in 1942, Archie Comics has sold over 3 billion copies that were published in dozens of languages across the globe.

The characters of Archie, Betty and Veronica, Jughead, Reggie, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats and Katy Keene have graced screens many times over the years, most recently on the CW series “Riverdale” and Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”