True to the comic book version of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the 10-episode reboot will be a coming-of-age story exploring Sabrina’s “half-witch, half-mortal” origins. It will see Sabrina start her education as a sorceress and struggle to reconcile the conflicting sides of her character – all while trying to maintain a normal life at high school.

Speaking earlier this year, Shipka said she was “really pumped to be a witch”, and praised Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s sinister interpretation of the original TV series.

“After I read the script, I became immediately obsessed with the role, with how Sabrina is portrayed and how badass the whole thing is,” she told Comicbook. “It’s going to be really dark and really cool, and have this very macabre take on everything.”

She added that she was a fan of many of the classic horror films that have inspired the tone of the new Sabrina series. “I mean, I love The Crucible, and I love the dark Rosemary’s Baby vibe of things,” she said. “And this is the direction that it’s going to go, which is really fun.”

The first 10-episode season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is set to drop on Netflix on 26 October, with a second season already in the works. We’ll be watching…

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Netflix has released the first pictures of its dark Sabrina reboot