News Netflix orders The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to series
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I’m still on the fence because I hate straight up horror but I’ll watch the first episode and see how I manage.
Yeah, horror's not my preferred genre... but then, teen soap opera isn't my preferred drama either, and yet I find Riverdale great fun. This is from the same creators, so it might be worthwhile.
Anybody hear anything about how directly this will be adapting the comic?
There's actually a whole line of Archie horror, with CAoS, Vampironica (which is pretty self explanatory), Jughead: The Hunger (Jughead is a werewolf and Veronica is a werewolf hunter), Afterlife with Archie (Archie Meets Zombies). I wonder if they'll do the others if this does well?
There's actually a whole line of Archie horror, with CAoS, Vampironica (which is pretty self explanatory), Jughead: The Hunger (Jughead is a werewolf and Veronica is a werewolf hunter), Afterlife with Archie (Archie Meets Zombies). I wonder if they'll do the others if this does well?
Probably not beat-for-beat, but the showrunner is the same guy who wrote the comic, so it will probably be spiritually/thematically similar. As a rule, I would expect that the same writer given a second chance to tell the same story would be more likely to try to refine, streamline, and improve upon it rather than simply repeat what they've already done. As we've seen with a show like The Expanse, which has the writers of the books it's based on as staff members, and is retelling the overall narrative of the books but changing a lot of the specifics, introducing characters earlier, consolidating multiple characters into one, condensing the timing, etc.
Is it just me, or does that look like a 50s/60s period piece? I'd been assuming it would be modern times, just like the first STTW.
Hard to say. The street scene at 0:14 seems to be populated entirely by vintage cars/trucks, but the license plate on the pickup looks consistent with modern New York license plates (and Riverdale has established that it's set in Upstate New York, with Sabrina's Greendale not far away).
My thoughts exactly. Everything I see and hear is wonderful.
We finally get a glimpse of Salem, but alas no dialogue. We still don't know who's voicing him. I fear that Kiernan Shipka's cat allergy (which she discovered during the show) is going to limit his appearances.
We finally get a glimpse of Salem, but alas no dialogue. We still don't know who's voicing him. I fear that Kiernan Shipka's cat allergy (which she discovered during the show) is going to limit his appearances.
I fear that Kiernan Shipka's cat allergy (which she discovered during the show) is going to limit his appearances.
Split screen shots are easy to do these days. If The Gifted can fake Skyler Samuels standing with two copies of herself in the same shot, then Sabrina can fake an actress and a cat being in the same shot.
True, but it does pretty much prevent her from holding Salem. Not a big deal, but it does limit certain things.
Ever seen Orphan Black? They had lots of tricks for allowing Tatiana Maslany to interact physically with her own clones. They could digitally put Kiernan Shipka's head on the body of a stand-in who was holding Salem. Or they could have her hold a fake cat and digitally superimpose the real cat onto it. Digital effects have come so far that we see composite shots all the time that we don't even realize are faked.
Heck, there's a lot you could do just with old-fashioned cutting and camera angles. Have a close-up of the cat with a stand-in's hand petting him, then cut to a close-up of Shipka's head and shoulders as she pretends to pet and talk to him. A lot of viewers will just accept the implied continuity and not even realize they weren't in the same shot.
Of course, Orphan Black is one of my favorite shows of the decade. I guess I hadn't thought about what they used there as applicable to here because it was "just" humans. You're right that is entirely feasible, it's just a question of what lengths the show will go to keep the intimate connection between Sabrina and Salem.
