Yes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer might be coming to movie theaters again for the first time since 1992. And while Joss Whedon — who wrote the original movie and presided over the seven-season-long TV hit — could potentially be involved down the road, the new movie is not being developed with his input at all.
The Hollywood Reporter article that broke the news doesn’t have much info about the plot of the new movie, because the producers who want to make it — Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment, and the original movie’s director, Fran Rubel Kuzui — aren’t quite sure either.
They know it won’t involve any of the supporting cast from the TV show: no Xander, Willow, Spike, or the rest. They like the idea that “each generation has its own vampire slayer to protect it,” but they say it will be a remake/reboot, not a sequel or prequel.
Frankly, beyond “let’s make a Buffy movie again,” it sounds like they have no clue what they want to do.
Whedon has been known as the creative mind behind Buffy for so long that it’s hard to imagine it without him, even though Kuzui’s the one who retains the rights. Of course, he has such a large fanbase (not just from Buffy but also from Firefly/Serenity) that his lack of involvement might spark more than a little outrage. It’ll be very interesting to see where this goes.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
who should play buffy?