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Broadway ‘Spider-Man’ Savior Injects Zombie Attacks Into ‘Archie’ Comics

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 12:59pm PSTTags: Afterlife With Archie, Archie Comics, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Zombies
Mike Fleming

Afterlife With ArchieEXCLUSIVE: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the Glee scribe who helped fix the troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, has signed on to write a new line of the venerable Archie Comics. And he’s found a way to inject a topical sensibility into the adventures of Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead: flesh eating zombies! Aguirre-Sacasa will write Afterlife With Archie, which ponders a zombie apocalypse in Riverdale. This will run alongside the usual lines of Archie Comics, but if you ask me, it’s exactly what Riverdale needed.

Here’s how it happens: Jughead’s beloved pooch Hotdog is run over by Reggie in his roadster. He convinces Sabrina to hatch a spell to bring back the pooch, but when Hotdog bites Jughead, he soon craves flesh. Aguirre-Sacasa certainly knows horror: he scripted the upcoming remake of Carrie that stars Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore.

Aguirre-Sacasa said the new comic line “combines two of my great passions, Archie comics and horror comics. This series came out of conversations with Jon Goldwater, asking questions like ‘What if the Archie characters found themselves in a Stephen King novel like The Stand or a Sam Raimi movie like The Evil Dead? Could we pull that off, tonally? We’re really going for it. The first arc is called Escape from Riverdale. The second arc is called, brace yourself, Betty RIP.” He said the gore will be balanced with “elements that are quintessentially Archie.”

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Chloe Sevigny To Star Onstage In ‘Abigail/1702′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 14, 2012 @ 10:45am PDTTags: Chloe Sevigny, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Mike Fleming

Chloe Sevigny Abigail/1702EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that Chloe Sevigny will play Abigail Williams in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa‘s new play Abigail/1702, which will premiere at New York Stage and Film this summer. The David Esbjornson-directed production will run June 27-July 8. The play is a supernatural suspense thriller set 10 years after the infamous Salem witch trials. Believing herself responsible for the deaths of 20 innocent people, Abigail is now living in Boston under an assumed name, caring for the sick, and struggling to atone for her sins — both the ones history remembers her for and the darker ones in her heart. When she starts to fall in love with a young sailor in her care, a chilling, diabolical figure from Abigail’s past comes calling…and demands her soul as recompense for her crimes, sending the woman on one final, terror-filled quest for redemption back into the dark, haunted woods of Salem. Read More »

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‘King Of Kong’ Director Seth Gordon Ready To Play ‘War Games’ In MGM Reboot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 5:27pm PDTTags: Ally Sheedy, Colin Farrell, Gary Barber, Horrible Bosses, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jose Padilha, Kevin Spacey, Matthew Broderick, MGM, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Roger Birnbaum, Seth Gordon, War Games
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: MGM will reboot the 1983 thriller War Games, and the studio has set Seth Gordon to develop the film to direct. Gordon, who made his breakthrough with the gaming documentary The King of Kong, most recently directed the New … Read More »

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‘Glee’ Hires First Writing Staff, Allison Adler Tapped As Co-EP, Marti Noxon To Consult

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 16, 2011 @ 7:00pm PDTTags: Glee, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Nellie Andreeva

After two seasons of writing every single episode of the high school dramedy by themselves, Glee co-creators/executive producers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan are getting help for Season 3. For the first time, the Fox series will have a writing staff next season. Joining Muprhy, Falchuk and Brennan in the writers room will be Allison Adler (Chuck, No Ordinary Family) as co-executive producer. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who did the rewrite of the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical, was recently tapped as co-producer, with Buffy and Angel veteran Marti Noxon and frequent Christopher Guest collaborator Michael Hitchcock, who guest starred on the first season of Glee,  serving as consulting producers. Rounding out the group are staff writers Matt Hodgson and Ross Maxwell. Read More »

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Broadway Spider-Man Re-Writer Tackles ‘Glee’ And ‘Carrie’ Remake

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 19, 2011 @ 4:44pm PDTTags: Carrie, Charles Portis, John Travolta, MGM, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Screen Gems, Sissy Spacek, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Stephen King
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the playwright and comic book writer who was brought on to rewrite and hopefully save Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, has booked several projects to follow. On the TV side, he’ll become a co-producer and writer of the hit series Glee. And I’m told that he’s just been set by MGM and Screen Gems to write a remake of Carrie, the Stephen King thriller about the telekinetic teenager who gets pushed too far at the prom and wreaks havoc on her fellow high school students. King’s bestselling book was turned into the 1976 film that starred Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Amy Irving and Piper Laurie as the repressive mother.

For Aguirre-Sacasa, these diverse projects are right in his wheelhouse. On Carrie, he will write a version that is more faithful to the King book than the earlier movie, much the same as Joel and Ethan Coen went back to the Charles Portis novel True Grit to present a version that didn’t really feel like a remake. Aguirre-Sacasa has a relationship with the author, after writing the graphic novel version of King’s The Stand, King’s seminal apocalyptic novel. Read More »

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‘Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark’ Goes Dark For Three Weeks To Make Changes

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 18, 2011 @ 12:22pm PDTTags: Julie Taymor, Philip William McKinley, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Mike Fleming

Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has shut down for a three-week hiatus, a performance stoppage that had been expected. The show will implement all the changes from the original Julie Taymor-directed musical that were made by replacement director Philip … Read More »

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BREAKING: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Hired To Rework ‘Spider-Man’ Musical

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 2:05pm PSTTags: Julie Taymor, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Spider-Man Broadway, Spider-Man Broadway Reviews, Spider-Man Musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Mike Fleming

I’m told that the producers of the troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have hired Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to rewrite the book originally done by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger.  Considering that one of the criticisms of the show … Read More »

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