Buffy the Vampire Slayer is seemingly being introduced again from the lifeless…once more!
Greater than 20 years after the sequence ended with Season 7, a reboot of the fan-favorite TV sequence within the works and nearing a pilot order from Hulu, with Sarah Michelle Gellar anticipated to reprise her signature function as Buffy Summers, through Deadline.
Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, a “self-professed lifelong Buffy fan,” is about to direct the pilot, written by Poker Face‘s Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.
Chloé is understood for work together with Songs My Brothers Taught Me, The Rider, Nomadland and Marvel’s Eternals.
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“I hear the reboot is beginning a writers room quickly, an indication that Hulu and the studios have excessive expectations for the challenge going to sequence. It’s unclear but whether or not different authentic Buffy forged members would return; that’s thought-about seemingly,” Deadline stories.
Plot particulars are nonetheless being stored underneath wraps, however it’s “described as the following chapter within the Buffyverse.” Among the many government producers of the pilot is Dolly Parton, whose firm Sandollar was producer on the unique.
Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who additionally wrote the 1992 film the sequence was primarily based on, has no involvement within the reboot. He confronted misconduct allegations from stars together with Buffy forged members in recent times, and has not labored on a Hollywood challenge since.
This may be the third sequence within the franchise, following Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which aired on the WB for 5 seasons from 1997-2001 earlier than shifting to UPN for 2 extra seasons, and spinoff Angel, which ran on the WB for 5 seasons (1999-2004). Discover out what SMG only in the near past stated a few potential reboot.
Discover out the place the forged of Buffy is in the present day.