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Subject: Re: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reboot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Nears Hulu Pilot Order With Chloe Zhao Directing By Nellie Andreeva February 3, 2025 12:30pm
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On Feb 4, 2025 at 9:21:33 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 08:01:40 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>  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?
>>>  
>> 
>> “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Watcher“
>> 
>> Or maybe
>> 
>> “Buffy The Vampire Slayer Slayer Watcher“
>> 
>> Anyway, remember at the end of the series they had released all the
>> potentials? There are hundreds, maybe thousands of them running around; the
>> big question is have more than being born in the last 20 years.
>> 
>>>>  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.
>> 
>> Does Willow still host that magic show I won’t watch?
> 
> She does not. Brooke Burke took over the hosting duty in 2023 of PENN
> & TELLER: FOOL US.
>>>  
>>>>  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.
>>>  
>> 
>> Yeah. Even the decent episodes that he allowed to be credited to others
>> were heavily rewritten by him.
> 
> That's the main reason I question the ability to recapture the magic
> (the lack of Whedon being involved in the project.) I get that he did
> some bad things and they wouldn't want him on the set but without him
> being involved in the writing it's doubtful the show makes it past a
> first set of episodes. Not that it's that likely it survives to a
> second season even if he was involved as most shows don't do that
> well.
> 
>> 
>>>>  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'?
>> 
>> They left Angel behind. So the drama!
> 
> Total Drama Island.
> 
>>>  
>>>>  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?
>> 
>> It’s the first order of business in the first meeting. “OK, who do we make
>> black?“
> 
> What if we make the entire cast black? Wouldn't that be the best move?

Strangely, an entirely black cast (a la HAMILTON) is considered highly
diverse, even though, going by the commonly-accepted English language
definition of the word 'diverse', an all-black cast is exact opposite of
diverse.