Sabrina The Teenage Witch (2024 Film) REDO

Note: This is a new version of a article that I made in the middle of last year, if you wanna see the original, check out "Sabrina The Teenage Witch (2024 Animated Film)", most of the stuff will be the same as the original, except I'm have changed the Production story a bit and also made changes to the release date of the movie, and the marketing

Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a 2024 Animated Movie produced by DreamWorks Animation and Archie Comics and distributed by Universal Pictures. The Film is solely based on the comic book series of the same name and premiered at Universal Studios Hollywood on May 4th, 2024, May 24th,2024 in North America, Europe and Australia, and June 7th, 2024 in other territories. This is the sixth adaptation on the comic book series after Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 1996, Sabrina in Rome in 1998, Sabrina Down Under in 1999, Sabrina Friends Forever in 2002 and Sabrina: Being Wicked Rules in 2009.

The movie is directed by The Bad Guys(2022) director Pierre Perifel and produced by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord and stars Miranda Cosgrove as Sabrina Spellman, Josh Peck as Harvey Kinkle, Keke Palmer as Chole Flan, Josh Brener as Salem Saberhagen, Sherry Miller as Hilda Spellman and Charlene Fernetz as Zelda Spellman, Ben Shwartz as Seth and Jenny Slate as Katie La More. Miller and Ferenets both reprised their roles from the 1996 live action movie.

The film was critically acclaimed by critics

Plot
Set in the year 2024, Sabrina, who lives with her guardians Hilda and Zelda in Riverdale in Bronx, New York, is offically 16 years, which means that she's a witch but doesn't notice til the day after her birthday. The day after her 16th birthday, her friends, Chole and Harvey notice something off about her, after she comes home that day, she finds out that she is a witch, after news that Seth and Katie La More, Sabrina's arch rival, Sabrina uses her new powers so Seth starts to notice her, but not to cast a love spell.

After that, Sabrina uses her powers for a wide source of things, including perfect test scores, Making Harvey faster, help her win a track race and for Seth to take her out to the School Dance. After a little while, Katie starts to notice that Sabrina is a witch and tries to hunt her down, Harvey and Chloe try to warn her, but doesn't listen. Sabrina tries to turn Katie into a poodle but is unsuccessful and thus, is too late for an entire army track her. The ultimate battle between Sabrina and the army, with Harvey, Chloe and Seth. The pair is successful and Katie is later taken into custody. After that, Harvey reveals that he actually has a crush on Sabrina and Sabrina later admits that she has a crush of him, thus the two start dating and go out to the dance together.

Cast
Miranda Cosgrove as Sabrina Spellman, a 16 year old witch and Harvey's Crush, later Girlfriend, also serves as Executive Producer

Josh Peck as Harvey Kinkle, A 16 year old mortal who is friends with Sabrina and Chloe, and later Sabrina's Boyfriend, also serves as Executive Producer

Keke Palmer as Chloe Flan, A 16 year old mortal who is Best Friends with Sabrina and Harvey

Ben Schwartz as Seth, A 16 year old mortal who is Sabrina's former Dance Date

Jenny Slate as Katie La More, Sabrina's arch nemesis

Josh Brener as Salem Saberhagen, a 500 year old witch who is permanently stuck in a cat as punishment for trying to take over the world

Sherry Miller as Hilda Spellman, Sabrina's Aunt

Charlene Fernetz as Zelda Spellman. Sabrina's Aunt

Roger Craig Smith as Salem Saberhagen (human form), Archie Andrews(post credits appearance)

Jerry Jones as Coach

Benedict Cumberbatch as Mr.Llyod, Sabrina's Geometry Teacher

Robert Downey Jr. as Mr.Sams, Sabrina's English Teacher

Andrew Garfield as Mr.Nathan, Sabrina's History Teacher

Jimmy Fallon as Mr.Mikes, Sabrina's Science Teacher

Kristen Wigg as Mrs.Bernard, Sabrina's French Teacher

Eva Longoria as Ms.Elena, Sabrina's Spanish Teacher

Savannah Guthrie as Herself

Craig Melvin as Himself

James Marsden as NYPD Officer

JK Simmons as NYPD Chief

Seth Rogan and Keegan Michael Key as FBI Agents

Scrapped Live Action Version
In Early 2008, there was reports saying that Paramount was interesting in developing a feature length film out of the Sabrina The Teenage Witch Franchise after a meeting with future Archie Comics CEO Johnathan Goldwater and had plans to make it Live Action. Following this, The studio held private auditions from April 5th through May 9th that same year. In Late 2008 in an interview, Goldwater said that him and Paramount are in the talks about casting for the movie and was expected to be announced sometime in 2009 and had started writing a script in the summer of that year. During Paramount's upfront in 2009, the some of cast of the Movie was announced, which included Chloe Grace Mortez as Sabrina Spellman, Cole Sprouse as Harvey Hinkle and Salem was expected to be voice by Johnathan Goldwater himself. In addition, Archie Andrews was set to be in the movie as one of Sabrina's friends and would have been played by Freddie Highmore, which would have made him British for the movie. Later on in 2009, more cast members had been announced including Melissa Joan Hart and her sister, Emily Hart and Zelda and Hilda Spellman, in which both of them had played Sabrina in the 1996 movie and the 1999 animated series.

During the Paramount upfront the following year, in 2010, a release date of July 27th, 2012, The same day as the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, was announced. Principal Photography was supposed to begin a year prior to the release in mid 2011 and would have been filmed primarily in Montreal, Canada, Parts of the State of New York and in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. On November 1st, 2010 it was announced that Chris Williams, the director of the 2008 blockbuster Bolt, would be producing the movie, with Tim Burton producing it. A week later, Johnathan Goldwater and Nancy Silbertkelt said that they were already planning to make a full trilogy, but obviously never came to be and also announced that they will be serving as executive producers.

In 2011, the film faced major production issued, including filming conflicts and Burton moving away from the film before eventually joining back in January 2012. In response, the film was delayed to September 6th, 2013 on August 12th, 2011 before eventually being delayed further to November 14th, 2014 before being cancelled as a whole on June 27th, 2014.

DreamWorks Revival
In June 2016, it was announced that Universal had brought the rights to the film and would be rebuilding the film as an animated feature. Following the announcement, rumors had started to spread that it would be made by Illumination Entertainment, the studio known for making the Despicable Me movies and The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Later in December 2016, Chris Meledandri said in an interview that the movie was not in production at Illumination, which left many fans confused. In July 2017 however, Goldwater and Silberkleit announce that the movie was in fact in production at DreamWorks Animation, with production on the movie scheduled to start in 2018 and stated that the studio was currently looking for writers and animators who would work on the movie. After 2 years after it was sold to DreamWorks and a year after looking for animators and writers, and the script completed in November 2017, the production of the movie was underway on June 4th, 2018.

Not much was said about the movie until October 2019, when it was revealed by DreamWorks CEO Jeffery Small that Pierre Perifiel was going to direct the movie and that the movie was set to have animation similar to Spider Man: Into The Spider Verse. By January 2020, it was announced that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller was going to produce the movie. By March that same year, work on the movie was being done virtually, but luckily, in person production resumed before 2020 came to a closed. On December 31st, 2020, it was announced that the film had gotten a release date of October 28th, 2022 but was later delayed on July 1st, 2021 to October 27th, 2023.

On December 21st, 2021, the first two cast members, which were actress Miranda Cosgrove and actor and YouTuber Josh Peck, were announced. On April 19th, 2022, the film was announced to be delayed again this time to July 12th, 2024. After that, not much would be announced about the movie until May 12th, 2023, when it was announced by Silberkleit that the movie was still in production in response to the Writers Guild of America Strike and has announced that the films release date had been moved up to May 24th, 2024 and also announced that more info would be revealed in early June. On June 8th, 2023, in a video conference, the full cast was announced, and that Cosgrove and Peck would serve as executive producers and would have a musical number in the movie. Later that day,, DreamWorks officially revealed the new character models for the movie, which was praised by fans, but some has criticized the designs of Sabrina and Chloe for being "too hot". On October,31st,2023, Christopher Lord and Phil Miller announced that the film development was "nearing completion" as well as responding to rumors that Chloe Flan would be apart of the LGBTQ+ Community in the movie, which were proven false. The movie was finally completed on March 8th, 2024.

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