After years of insisting she by no means wished to play Buffy once more, it seems like Sarah Michelle Gellar is getting again into the slaying enterprise in spite of everything.
Per Deadline, Hulu is nearing an order for a pilot of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival, with Gellar “anticipated to star.” They report that Chloe Zhao, director of Nomadland and Marvel’s Eternals will direct the pilot for the brand new present. Additionally they declare that Hulu has “excessive expectations for the venture going to sequence” and that appearances from different Buffy stars of the previous “is taken into account doubtless.”
Additionally they declare Buffy franchise creator Joss Whedon isn’t concerned within the new present, following varied allegations of misconduct a number of years in the past.
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Whedon initially wrote Buffy as a function movie, with Kristy Swanson within the title function. Though the movie was not an enormous success, Whedon was capable of flip the idea right into a TV present which grew to become one of many medium’s defining cult hits of the late ’90s and early 2000s. The Buffy TV sequence, now with Gellar within the lead, aired seven seasons on The WB Community and UPN; a by-product sequence for Buffy’s doomed vampire love curiosity Angel lasted for 5 seasons on The WB, ending in 2004.
After Angel went off the air, Whedon and a wide range of different characters have constructed out the “Buffyverse” with a wide range of novels and comedian books. However there hasn’t been a correct Buffy present in 20 years.
Gellar has lengthy maintained she’s not thinking about doing extra Buffy. As just lately, uh, two weeks in the past, she quipped she’d want “plenty of cosmetic surgery” to play the half once more, whereas including that she was “proud of how we ended issues with Buffy.”
Not that pleased, it appears, as a result of now Gellar is poised to select up her stake for the primary time in twenty years.
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