According to Comicbook, The CW’s Riverdale has recently wrapped up production on their seventh and final season. On Monday, the official Twitter account for Archie Comics confirmed the conclusion of production on the season. This is after many of the cast members shared photos of everything wrapping up in recent days. The series is scheduled to premiere on Wednesday, August 23rd, right after the season finale of Nancy Drew.
The Twitter post reads, “Production on #Riverdale has officially wrapped! Thank you so much for taking this series into your heart, we can’t wait to share these final episodes with you!”
The Twitter post is down below.
Riverdale follows the adventures of Archie Andrews and his best friends as they enter a new school year with the weight of the world on their shoulders. From murder to magic powers, the dramatic mystery has kept many fans on their toes for the past seasons, and season seven will be no exception. In season seven, Archie and the gang are now in the 1950s, with Jughead Jones being the only one that knows they are trapped there.
Cast for the series include Lili Reinhart (Chemical Hearts), Camila Mendes (Palm Springs), Cole Sprouse (Five Feet Apart), K.J. Apa (The Last Summer), Madelaine Petsch (Sightless), Casey Cott (Asking For It ), and many more.
Below are posts from cast members from the final days of production.
Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) told Comicbook, “It is true, though the Archie started publishing much earlier than the 1950s, the decade that most people associate with Archie comics is the 1950s for whatever reason. The Archie comics, they’re so nostalgic, and I think when people think of time periods, they think of the 1950. Through the lens of nostalgia. So that was one big thing, absolutely. And even when we’ve done their iconic comic book costumes from the past, even though they were technically the 1940s, whenever anyone would write about it, they’d say, ‘Oh my God, they’re wearing their 1950s outfits.’ So, it was sort of like, ‘Okay, well, that is … ‘And even when we were pitching Riverdale, and this is true, when we were pitching Riverdale to try to do a TV show, the executives would say, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. Is this a show set in the ’50s?’ And it’s like, ‘No, no, no, it’s set in present day.’ So, there was that.”
He continued, ”The other big thing that felt really resonant is the 1950s were when the modern idea of the teenager was born. Teenagers really didn’t … Teenagers as we know them, and as consumers of popular culture, as consumers of movies and television and comic books and things like that, that really … The birth of the American of the modern American teenager was the 1950s as well. So, it felt like, ‘Oh, well that’s Archie.’ I mean, that is Archie. So, it felt like this is the time period, this is actually the time period. So those were also things that kind of resonated with us and why we landed on this time period. Also later … and the world is roiling later in the ’60s with counterculture, with the civil rights movement, with the sort of a gay liberation movement and things like that. And it felt like in terms of our thematic, which is the wholesome sweet innocent facade, and then the darker, more dangerous, more fraught themes and issues bubbling underneath, it felt like the ’50s sort of suited that to a T.”
Riverdale’s final season is set to premiere on August 23rd on The CW. All current seasons are available to stream on Netflix.