Multiple sources are reporting that Kiernan Shipka has been cast as the lead character, Sabrina Spellman, in Netflix's upcoming Sabrina TV series, which will reportedly be based on the popular Archie Comics graphic novel The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
The Untitled Sabrina Project is expected to reimagine the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft. Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.
Shipka's iteration of the character is being described as an empowered young woman, half-human, half-witch, who is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High. Intelligent, compassionate and brave to the point of recklessness, Sabrina is all that stands between us and the forces of darkness that threaten our world.
The series has already been ordered straight-to-series and has been given a 20-episode, two-season run to begin with, so expect to see it on the streaming platform at some point in the not-so-distant future.
Shipka is best known for her role as Sally Draper on the hit AMC series Mad Men and has also made appearances on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, American Dad!, Family Guy, and Feud: Bette and Joan.
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