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On Feb 3, 2025 at 5:49:47 PM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

>
> https://deadline.com/2025/02/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot-sarah-michelle-gellar-hulu-pilot-chloe-zhao-1236273767/
> 
> BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Reboot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Nears Hulu
> Pilot Order with Chloé Zhao Directing
> 
> More than two decades after BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER ended its seven-season
> run, the beloved supernatural drama is eyeing a revival with a new chapter
> in the franchise. A followup series is nearing a pilot order from Hulu,
> with Sarah Michelle Gellar expected to star, reprising her signature role
> as Buffy Summers

Is this going to be a geriatric Buffy trying to run around and do all the
gymnastics and whatnot that she used to as a teenager, or is she going to be
kind of a Watcher type, mentoring a new young Slayer?

> Beyond the pilot order, I hear the reboot is starting a writers room soon,
> a sign that Hulu and the studios have high expectations for the project
> going to series. It is unclear yet whether other original Buffy cast
> members would return; that is considered likely.

It's considered likely probably because most of them have nothing else going
on with their careers.

> Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who also wrote the 1992 movie the series was
> based on, has no involvement in the reboot. He has not worked in Hollywood
> in any official capacity since facing a slew of misconduct allegations in
> 2021.

Whether he was a cad or not, his writing is what made the show what it was. I
don't have high hopes it will recapture the magic without him.

> If the Hulu pilot goes to series, it would be the third in the franchise,
> following mothership Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which aired on the WB for
> five seasons from 1997-2001 before dramatically moving to UPN for two more

Why was the move to UPN 'dramatic'?

> Berman, Fran Kazui and Kaz Kazui previously teamed up with 20th TV in 2018
> for a potential Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot written by Midnight, Texas
> creator Monica Owusu-Breen, on which Whedon was an executive producer. That
> project, whose lead was envisioned as a black woman

Of course it was. What's a Hollywood 'reimagining' without a race-swap,
right?