After Sarah Michelle Gellar confirmed she’s reprising her position as Buffy Summers, she’s slaying disinformation in regards to the highly-anticipated reboot.
The actress and producer not too long ago debunked “faux characters” and different particulars that circulated on-line in March about her upcoming Hulu revival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which hails from 2x Oscar winner Chloé Zhao.
“These are all faux characters. That factor that acquired launched is all faux,” Gellar advised Elite Day by day of earlier stories that the sequence will heart on “a cerebral 16-year-old named Nova … who could be very sensible and a little bit of a loner,” in addition to her buddies “Hugo, an out-and-proud nerd who comes from cash, and Gracie, a younger knowledgeable on vampires who’s an acolyte of Gellar’s Buffy.”
Though Gellar wouldn’t affirm any precise particulars in regards to the reboot, she defined how Zhao satisfied her to return to the franchise after years of shutting down rumors and hypothesis.
“Each pitch I heard was identical to, ‘Let’s simply do Buffy once more.’ Why? However the ardour that [Zhao] got here to me with, what she needed to do with the present and the character, and why Buffy is required now — it was the primary time the place I believed, ‘OK, there’s a motive,’” stated Gellar.
The forged of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ (On-line USA)
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Like the unique sequence, which ran for seven seasons on The WB from 1997 to 2003, Gellar stated the reboot will proceed to champion LGBTQ characters and different outsiders.
“The entire level of an antihero is to be a hero for the individuals who don’t match within the field, the individuals who aren’t like everyone else,” she defined. “That’s who I need to inform tales for: the individual that actually seems to be to those tales to really feel a connection.”
Noting the reboot has been within the works for “three-and-a-half, possibly 4 years now,” Gellar assured, “We received’t do it until it’s 100% proper and there’s 100% a motive.”
In February, Deadline reported that the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot has neared a pilot order from Hulu, with Gellar anticipated to reprise her eponymous position within the Zhao-directed pilot, written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.
Together with producers Gellar, Zhao and the Zuckermans, Dolly Parton is returning as an government producer on the sequence after producing the unique beneath her Sandollar banner.
Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who additionally wrote the 1992 film the sequence was primarily based on, has no involvement within the reboot. He has not labored in Hollywood in any official capability since dealing with a slew of misconduct allegations in 2021.
