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Archie In Trouble At CAA?

It was only a month ago that John Goldwater at Archie announced a signing deal with agency CAA to represent the characters, currently enjoying a media blitz with the Archie Marries Veronica arc, to Hollywood. But I hear they've hit a little snag. No one really seems to want them right now.

Problem is there seems to be a glut of "comics universe deals" right now. Warner has DC, Universal has Hasbro, Disney has Marvel, Paramount still has bits of Marvel, and so have Fox and Sony. And the line I'm being told by Hollywood sources, being repeated over and over, is that despite current media attention, studios don't believe that Archie's world has any relevance today. There's a belief that the characters are stuck in the nineteen fifties which is proving hard to shift. Despite new changes in art, manga approaches and attempts to grab the spotlight, they believe that the likelihood of people paying out to see an Archie movie is low. Especially when you look to an international market, where Archie has hardly any penetration. The best they have is Sabrina The Teenage Witch, thanks to the more recent TV series, but it's not worth signing up an entire range just for one character.

On the other hand, Neal Adams has been having better luck with agency rival ICM. Since taking him on in August, they have already been finding interest in his published properties. Despite little exposure since the nineties, the sci-fi and fantasy aspects books such as Crazyman and Valeria The She Bat do give them greater cache…

Ms Mystic vs Sabrina in a spell-out, anyone?

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