We have now been listening to talks a couple of potential “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot for a few years now, however none of these potential tasks ever got here with the additional bonus of Sarah Michelle Gellar returning to the function. However one thing has modified on that entrance, with Deadline reporting that the actress is on board to return for a small display screen revival over on Hulu!
Deadline studies this afternoon, “A comply with up sequence is nearing a pilot order from Hulu, with Sarah Michelle Gellar anticipated to star.” And Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) is ready to direct!
The brand new take is being described as “the following chapter within the Buffyverse.”
Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (“Poker Face”) wrote the pilot. Deadline additionally notes in immediately’s report, “Past the pilot order, I hear the reboot is beginning a writers room quickly, an indication that Hulu and the studios have excessive expectations for the venture going to sequence. It’s unclear but whether or not different unique Buffy solid members would return; that’s thought-about seemingly.”
First performed by Kristy Swanson within the 1992 film, Buffy Summers was most memorably portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar within the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV sequence, which ran from 1997 to 2003. Lately, the actress had made it clear that she had no real interest in returning to the function. “I’m very pleased with the present that we created and it doesn’t should be carried out,” Michelle Gellar instructed SFX Journal again in 2023. She added, “We wrapped that up.”
Again in December 2024, nonetheless, she instructed Drew Barrymore that her emotions had modified. “It’s humorous, I all the time used to say no, as a result of it’s in its bubble and it’s so good,” Michelle Gellar defined on Barrymore’s discuss present. “However watching Intercourse and the Metropolis and seeing Dexter, and realizing there are methods to do it, positively does get your thoughts considering, ‘Nicely, possibly.’”
The deliberate “Buffy” reboot comes from twentieth Tv and Searchlight TV. Govt producers will embody Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chloé Zhao, and Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” ran for seven seasons between 1997 and 2003, changing into a popular culture icon within the course of. It was adopted by spinoff “Angel,” which ran from 1999 to 2004.
