It’s Archie!!

coledirksenCole Dirksen was chosen for the stills shoot for the “Riverdale” picture cast.

Riverdale is an upcoming American teen drama television series based on the characters by Archie Comics. It has been ordered to series at The CW and is scheduled to air during the 2016–17 television season, coinciding with the Archie character’s 75th anniversary. The pilot is set to premiere around January or February 2017 and is written by Archie Comics’ chief creative officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

Directed by Lee Toland Krieger, the new series is executive produced by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Jon Goldwater. The drama also co-stars Lili Reinhart, Luke Perry, Camila Mendes, Marisol Nichols and Robin Givens just joined the cast as Mayor Sierra McCoy.

Riverdale” will premiere midseason on The CW.

“From a distance it presents itself like so many other small towns all over the the world, safe, decent, innocent. Get closer though, and you start seeing the shadows underneath.” Those are the first words audiences hear from the dark and twisted trailer for the CW’s new show, “Riverdale.

Set in present day and based on the iconic Archie Comics characters, the drama is a surprising and subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, and their friends, exploring the surrealism of small-town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade.

In the first trailer, fans get introduced to a handful of its characters and a murder that has recently taken place.

TRAILER:
https://vimeo.com/178651803

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