Buffy reboot in development
07-20-18, 07:20 PM
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Buffy reboot in development
Buffy Summers is heading back to Sunnydale… but she might look a little different than you remember.
A reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in development, with a black actress eyed to play the title role, our sister site Deadline is reporting. Original creator Joss Whedon is on board as an executive producer, with Monica Owusu-Breen (Midnight, Texas) serving as writer and showrunner of the reboot. (Owusu-Breen previously wrote for ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., where Whedon is an EP as well.) The reboot doesn’t have a network home yet, but it’s said to be “contemporary, building on the mythology of the original.”
The original Buffy, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the titular slayer, debuted in 1997 on The WB and ran for seven seasons, jumping to UPN for its final two seasons. It’s since become a cultural touchstone and cult favorite among TV fans.
If it makes it to air, the new-look Buffy would be just the latest WB series to return to TV: Charmed and Roswell are both being resurrected by The CW next season.
A reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in development, with a black actress eyed to play the title role, our sister site Deadline is reporting. Original creator Joss Whedon is on board as an executive producer, with Monica Owusu-Breen (Midnight, Texas) serving as writer and showrunner of the reboot. (Owusu-Breen previously wrote for ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., where Whedon is an EP as well.) The reboot doesn’t have a network home yet, but it’s said to be “contemporary, building on the mythology of the original.”
The original Buffy, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the titular slayer, debuted in 1997 on The WB and ran for seven seasons, jumping to UPN for its final two seasons. It’s since become a cultural touchstone and cult favorite among TV fans.
If it makes it to air, the new-look Buffy would be just the latest WB series to return to TV: Charmed and Roswell are both being resurrected by The CW next season.
07-20-18, 07:51 PM
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I'd happily watch this if they present it as a continuation of the show (same universe, different slayer) rather than a remake. Hand wave away the implications of the series finale. I just don't understand rebooting the entire thing.
07-20-18, 08:04 PM
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07-20-18, 08:31 PM
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Hell, they could still have Boreanaz and Marsters pop up. Just explain their aging by stating the Powers That Be voided the papers Angel signed in the finale. Both he and Spike could have been living as mortals for the past fifteen years after fulfilling the Shanshu Prophecy together. Of course, I'm probably disregarding anything that happened in those comic book follow-up "seasons" that Whedon authorized. Never bothered reading those.
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07-20-18, 08:34 PM
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If this does have to happen I am glad Joss is having Buffy be black just to piss off the loonies. I do hope that is a complete reboot and not a continuation as the series is perfect in my mind. The ending of Angel was a good way for the universe to go out. And although I don't read the comics it would suck for those who do if they discard all of it.
07-21-18, 02:42 AM
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I think that any Buffy reboot needs to do a lot to justify its existence; more than just doing a race swap.
If I were doing it, I'd drop the humor and make it straight up, hard-R horror. Think the Battlestar Galactica original/remake.
If I were doing it, I'd drop the humor and make it straight up, hard-R horror. Think the Battlestar Galactica original/remake.
07-21-18, 05:09 AM
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A sequel makes way more sense than a reboot given what happened in the finale. I'm all for a Slayer of color that stays alive more than three episodes.
07-21-18, 05:30 AM
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Can't say I want to see a reboot. I'd rather see a continuation of the world already established with one of the potential slayers created at the end.
I'm so emotionally attached to the original and angel. Gonna be a hard sell for me.
I'm so emotionally attached to the original and angel. Gonna be a hard sell for me.
07-21-18, 09:33 AM
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I can’t see Whedon being big on a reboot but could see him do a continuation. It would be easy enough to have a child named Buffy in honor of the original becoming a slayer. I would be out if they do a reset though.
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