32 Riverdale Facts More Shocking Than the Black Hood's True Identity

One vice president from Warner Bros. imagined Archie traveling through time and Louis C.K. playing the redheaded protagonist. Writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and director Jason Moore took a few weeks to unravel and explore this idea, but ultimately decided that a high-concept Archie film was not something they wanted to tell, Aguirre-Sacasa explained during The CW's 2017 Winter Television Critics Association panel.