On Feb 6, 2025, Gellar posted the next on Instagram to deal with the information reported earlier within the week that one other Buffy revival was nearing a pilot order from Hulu.
Gellar recounts being approached by producer Gail Berman (exec producer on Buffy all through its run, and a powerhouse in US tv maybe unfairly famed amongst Whedon followers as having been the FOX exec to tug the plug on Firefly) to satisfy with the director of Greatest Image Oscar winner Nomadland (and the less-feted Marvel’s Eternals) Chloé Zhao to listen to “her tackle a possible Buffy revival.” Gellar took the assembly, loved it, agreed to nothing there-and-then however saved the dialog going. Talks continued, Poker Face writer-producers Nora and Lilla Zuckerman had been added to their inventive crew, and, as Gellar places it in her Insta submit, “in the end, in the future, we landed on an thought.” She continued:
“I’ve at all times listened to the followers and heard your want to revisit “Buffy” and her world, nevertheless it was not one thing I may do until I used to be certain we’d get it proper. This has been a protracted course of, and it’s not over but. I promise you, we’ll solely make this present if we all know we will do it proper. And I’ll let you know that we’re on the trail there.
“I really feel so fortunate to be on this journey with these 4 unbelievably proficient girls, all of whom love “Buffy” as a lot as I do. And as a lot as you do. Thanks to all of the followers who by no means stopped asking for this. This will probably be for you.”
Instantly beneath Gellar’s submit was an endorsement from actor Emma Caulfield, who performed ex-demon Anya in Buffy seasons three to seven, and who referred to as Gellar’s phrases “Excellent”. So, Anya’s into it.
There are such a lot of inquiries to ask a couple of Buffy TV revival. Would the present will ignore the comedian books sequence that continued the story? Which of the unique forged would return (Nicholas Brendon, who performed Xander Harris on the present, has had a string of arrests and prices for medication and violent behaviour together with home violence in recent times)? If actors James Marsters and David Boreanaz had been to come back again as their non-ageing vampire characters Spike and Angel, would they be digitally de-aged to cowl up the 20-odd years which have handed since final we noticed them, and in that case, wouldn’t it look bizarre?
