Re: ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Reboot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Nears Hulu Pilot Order With Chloé Zhao Directing By Nellie Andreeva February 3, 2025 12:30pm

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

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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?