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Post by hardball on Jul 21, 2018 0:24:53 GMT
‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ TV Reboot in Development From Joss Whedon, Monica Owusu-Breen
A TV reboot of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is in development at 20th Century Fox Television, Variety has confirmed. Original series creator Joss Whedon is onboard to executive produce, with writer Monica Owusu-Breen attached to write the script. The rebooted series will see a black actress take over the title role, which was played in the series by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Gail Berman, Joe Earley, Fran Kazui and Kaz Kazui will also executive produce. No network is currently attached to the series, but it will no doubt stir up a bidding war among various networks and streaming services when it is taken to market. Breen’s previous credits include “Agents of SHIELD,” which is executive produced by Whedon. She also developed and served as showrunner on “Midnight, Texas” at NBC, but departed the show after one season. She has also written and produced shows like “Charmed,” “Alias,” “Brothers & Sisters,” and “Fringe.” She is repped by WME. The rebooted series also marks the latest television project Whedon has lined up in the past few months. Just last week HBO announced they had given a straight-to-series order to “The Nevers,” a sci-fi drama that Whedon will write, direct, and executive produce in addition to serving as showrunner. He is also an executive producer on “Pippa Smith: Grown-Up Detective,” a half-hour comedy series in development at Freeform. The original “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” series was based on the 1992 film of the same name, which Whedon wrote and starred Kristy Swanson as Buffy. The show ran for seven seasons and 145 episodes and is frequently cited as one of the best shows ever made. In addition to Gellar, it starred Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford, and David Boreanaz. variety.com/2018/tv/news/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-tv-reboot-1202880128/
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 0:26:23 GMT
God this rebooting need to stop.
I mean if he want to make a new show about a vampire slayer fine but don`t make it about Buffy make it about somebody new, Like Sally The Vampire Slayer
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Post by Roberto on Jul 21, 2018 0:56:51 GMT
SMG being replaced? No thanks.
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Post by General Kenobi on Jul 21, 2018 12:02:48 GMT
This is odd. Love Buffy but don't understand why we need a remake. Even with Joss Whedon I doubt they can recreate the magic of the first series. But all that said I will probably give it a chance.
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Post by dazz on Jul 21, 2018 14:23:00 GMT
I'll give it a shot but doubt they can capture lightning in a bottle twice, though this is the time to try I suppose, would have preferred a animated show continuing the original Buffyverse myself tho.
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Post by General Kenobi on Jul 21, 2018 17:27:14 GMT
Yeah an animated continuation would be great! Because then you can get the original cast back and not worry about how much they aged. Also you can do monsters and effects you couldn't before on a live-action TV budget.
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Post by hardball on Jul 26, 2018 23:53:02 GMT
Looks like we're getting a new slayer.
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Post by dazz on Jul 27, 2018 0:17:25 GMT
Cool this is something I can go with, just wonder if it will be a new slayer in a new universe or a new slayer in the ongoing Buffyverse?
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Post by hardball on Jul 27, 2018 0:32:39 GMT
I am also happy to hear that we're going to get another slayer. But if we're getting new characters why did they call it a reboot?
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Post by dazz on Jul 27, 2018 1:46:05 GMT
Well whats really the difference between all the re's?
Reboot, Remake, Retooled, Reimagined...all seem to get thrown around sort of like their the same thing.
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Post by hardball on Jul 27, 2018 1:54:38 GMT
Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot showrunner clarifies: it’s not a rebootMonica Owusu-Breen’s tweeted reassurances imply it’s a 20-years-later sequel series with ‘a new Slayer’ “Reboot” has become a contentious word. While risk-averse producers are perpetually looking for familiar films and TV to bring back in new forms, with the expectation that the new versions will have a built-in fandom, the seemingly endless wave of lackluster reboots of popular properties seems to be taking a toll on fans. And every new reboot announcement sparks a wave of online backlash. One of the most recent kerfuffles involved the announcement that Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen was working with Joss Whedon on a new version of his signature show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Initial reports suggested their new show would be a reboot, with a woman of color in the title role. Actual information about the planned show was thin as of its initial announcement, apart from a producer statement that read, “Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today.” But after a wave of negative response to the suggestion that the show might be looping back to the Buffy character’s starting point — and retelling the same stories with different actors — Owusu-Breen put out a statement via her Twitter suggesting the show is actually a sequel centered on a new character entirely. This statement may read as a little vague, but it does seem to make it clear that Owusu-Breen isn’t interested in recasting the original roles, or retelling the stories from Whedon’s series. Instead, it heavily implies that the new Buffy will be a sequel series. In the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer, protagonist Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the Slayer, a young woman granted supernatural strength and skill so she can fight the evils of the world. Most of the series emphasizes that there can be only one Slayer at a time, and that a new Slayer is empowered only when the old one dies. Complications from that formula do eventually mean a second Slayer is running around in addition to Buffy. But in last episode of season 7, the series finale, Buffy and her friends activate the Slayer magic and distribute it to dozens of potential Slayers, creating an army of empowered women. That dynamic continues throughout the 11-year run of Buffy spin-off comics, a series collected in arcs styled as Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Season Nine, Season Ten, and so forth. Given that the comics were initially approved by Whedon, who scripted many of the Season Eight comics himself, there’s been some debate over whether they’re canonical to the series. While Whedon said in an initial 2006 interview that he intended for them to be canon, and Buffy-related story arcs still need his office’s approval, he hasn’t had much direct involvement in the comics in years, and the series’ increasingly weird fantasy arcs would be a difficult thing for any new show to absorb. But they do feature a world with a lot of Slayer-empowered women running around, employed in a lot of different projects. And Whedon was more directly involved in the 2001-2003 comics series Fray, a far-future take on Buffy featuring a Slayer descendant who’d inherited Buffy’s primary weapon and her primary problem — vampires. Whedon has in the past said he has a specific plan to return to the Fray timeline, and that he also has a story in mind that would explain the discrepancies between Fray and the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Given his involvement in the show, there’s always the possibility that the new series could touch on existing plans he had for the Buffy mythos. But whether the new series acknowledged the comics or dismisses them, there’s certainly a canonical basis in the first show for an entire series that focuses on a new Slayer without taking the original ones off the table. And the prospect of a 20-years-later update to the series sounds exactly like what a lot of fans on social media demanded when the reboot news first broke. A sequel series that returns to the same world but breaks new ground and has its own specific tone and interests would at least have a slight chance of escaping the “This isn’t the Buffy we grew up with!” backlash. Now it’s just a question of whether it comes to fruition or dies on the vine, like the planned Whedon-free 2011 Buffy film project that fell apart in the scripting stage. And if it does see the light of day, it still remains to be seen whether fans are willing to give the new show a chance, even if it isn’t named after or intent on replacing Buffy herself. www.theverge.com/2018/7/26/17619650/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-monica-owusu-breen-reboot-sequel-series-new-slayer-fray-comics
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 12:34:53 GMT
Looks like we're getting a new slayer. I can definitely get behind this show more being a continuation series instead of a remake 'cause I think a remake is unneeded and it was only 15 years ago the original show ended and since then it has been continuing in comic book form. Using a new slayer with a new lineup of characters will give them a chance to do something new but I think it would be great if they were to set it in the same universe as the original TV show and have people mention Buffy and the other characters and even have some of the old characters appear. I heard one fan suggest having Xander, Willow or a human Spike as the new slayer's watcher would be a cool idea and I agree.
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Post by dazz on Jul 28, 2018 13:07:53 GMT
I think it could also be good if the comics carry over and Slayers are no longer secret but who is one can be, and the new slayer happens to grow up in a strong anti slayer family, have a different reason for the drama of being a Slayer, plus it still plays into typical teen drama, where as Buffy was a little more the generic no one understands my life drama of being a teen, this could be about the strain of someone coming to terms with being different and dealing with people who maybe wont be accepting of that, which is still something teens and adults struggle to deal with now.
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Post by stargazer1682 on Jul 28, 2018 14:01:07 GMT
I wouldn't be surprised if they ignore much, if not all of the comics; which I'm fine with, as I don't care for them at all. In spite of Joss saying they're cannon, I consider them nothing more than fanfiction from albeit the ultimate fan. Most viewers wouldn't know anything about it, and it would be easier and simpler to continue to set the story in close approximation to the real world people will recognize.
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Post by General Kenobi on Jul 28, 2018 14:04:35 GMT
I wasn't a big fan of the comics. They were too out there and the characters felt wrong. Though it was nice to see Dracula again. So I won't lose any sleep if they're ignored.
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Post by dazz on Jul 28, 2018 14:22:23 GMT
Well unless they retcon the end of Angel also a lot of shit has to be different, it's no longer a slayer but an army of them active and spread throughout the world, LA openly saw a massive army of demons and a dragon attack AI's, kind of hard to redo the original Buffy thing of she's the slayer but it's a secret because no one can know about them, I mean Sunnydale got swallowed whole by the hellmouth for god sake.
I agree they dont need to follow the comics 100%, a lot of stuff can either be ignored or glossed over, but the shows themselves painted themselves out of the supernatural being a secret long before the comics made it official.
But I don't think we need shit like Dawn being a giant or a centaur or whatever other crap they did there, but I do like the idea they did of buffing up the vampires as they were pretty weak week to week for the most part.
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Post by General Kenobi on Jul 28, 2018 22:03:34 GMT
Well, I do love the idea of the vampires getting more abilities. Helps make them a serious threat once more.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2018 13:35:39 GMT
I think it could also be good if the comics carry over and Slayers are no longer secret but who is one can be, and the new slayer happens to grow up in a strong anti slayer family, have a different reason for the drama of being a Slayer, plus it still plays into typical teen drama, where as Buffy was a little more the generic no one understands my life drama of being a teen, this could be about the strain of someone coming to terms with being different and dealing with people who maybe wont be accepting of that, which is still something teens and adults struggle to deal with now. Yeah. I like that idea and I wouldn't mind seeing them add some parts of the comic books to it 'cause while there were a lot of parts that fans weren't particularly fond of like Stargazer pointed out I think there were also a few good parts that could be used in Live Action and I am with you in not having them ignore the events of 'Angel' and Sunnydale getting swallowed whole by the hellmouth 'cause those are pretty difficult parts to leave out if they are going to make this a continuation series to the original TV show. Also I might be one of the few but I actually enjoyed the 'Angel: After the Fall' comic books and would have loved to have seen a movie of it with Angel flying around on a dragon. I am also for having stronger vampires and I thought the addition of the Ubervamps were one of the best additions in Season 7 'cause they were heaps stronger than normal vampires and difficult for Buffy to defeat. My main question about this show is what we have been discussing on other threads about 'Supernatural' having demons in demon forms. Will the new show have demons in demon forms like the original 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Angel' had 'cause it will be kinda disappointing if they don't.
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Post by BexxyJ on Jul 30, 2018 14:09:35 GMT
If they don't fuck it up and tarnish Buffy's legacy I'm down with it.
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Post by BexxyJ on Jul 30, 2018 14:10:13 GMT
I think it could also be good if the comics carry over and Slayers are no longer secret but who is one can be, and the new slayer happens to grow up in a strong anti slayer family, have a different reason for the drama of being a Slayer, plus it still plays into typical teen drama, where as Buffy was a little more the generic no one understands my life drama of being a teen, this could be about the strain of someone coming to terms with being different and dealing with people who maybe wont be accepting of that, which is still something teens and adults struggle to deal with now. Yeah. I like that idea and I wouldn't mind seeing them add some parts of the comic books to it 'cause while there were a lot of parts that fans weren't particularly fond of like Stargazer pointed out I think there were also a few good parts that could be used in Live Action and I am with you in not having them ignore the events of 'Angel' and Sunnydale getting swallowed whole by the hellmouth 'cause those are pretty difficult parts to leave out if they are going to make this a continuation series to the original TV show. Also I might be one of the few but I actually enjoyed the 'Angel: After the Fall' comic books and would have loved to have seen a movie of it with Angel flying around on a dragon. I am also for having stronger vampires and I thought the addition of the Ubervamps were one of the best additions in Season 7 'cause they were heaps stronger than normal vampires and difficult for Buffy to defeat. My main question about this show is what we have been discussing on other threads about 'Supernatural' having demons in demon forms. Will the new show have demons in demon forms like the original 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Angel' had 'cause it will be kinda disappointing if they don't. Weren’t the ubervamps inspired by the Grr. Arrr monster you always saw after the show? I swear when I saw one the first time I thought it was the monster from mutant enemy productions wearing clothes and they had come to get revenge for leaving them out of the show.
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