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Disney+ Greenlights Zombie Archie Series for 2027

7/20/2026

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Disney+ Greenlights

Disney+ has greenlit the live-action series “Afterlife with Archie.”
The series adapts Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla’s comic, placing Archie’s gang in a zombie apocalypse.
Warner Bros. Television, Berlanti Productions and Archie Comics will produce, with Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti, Schechter, Redman, Gibbons and Goldwater as executive producers.
The series will premiere on Disney+ around Halloween 2027.

Summary

Warner Bros. Series

Warner Bros. Television delivers its first series for Disney+, marking a rare outside-studio pickup.
The show is the third live-action Archie adaptation and the first to debut on Disney+.
A deluxe edition of the ten original comics launches in October while Aguirre-Sacasa announced on Instagram in October 2025 that issues 11-12 are written and issue 13 is plotted.
Archie Comics has sold more than 3 billion copies in its 85-year history.

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Historical Context

When AMC debuted The Walking Dead in October 2010, its pilot drew 5.35 million viewers, setting a basic-cable drama record and spawning multiple spin-offs that kept the zombie genre dominant for a decade. That success showed studios that comic adaptations could become franchise anchors, prompting Warner Bros. Television’s 2027 Disney+ Archie zombie series to aim for similar multi-billion-dollar impact.

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Disney+ Greenlights

Disney+ has greenlit the live-action series “Afterlife with Archie.”
The series adapts Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla’s comic, placing Archie’s gang in a zombie apocalypse.
Warner Bros. Television, Berlanti Productions and Archie Comics will produce, with Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti, Schechter, Redman, Gibbons and Goldwater as executive producers.
The series will premiere on Disney+ around Halloween 2027.

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