SMG has chosen her successor for hulus buffy reboot

[DanDud88]

https://www.instagram.com/sarahmgellar/ ... rsKPQuUIY/

[shevek]

if she's personally selected by SMG what else can be said. A bit younger, but she looks exactly like she is supposed to for the role.
She's been in a whole bunch of stuff already since 2017 so this is not some kind of Iman Vellani situation. Good luck to Ryan Kiera Armstrong!

[Heroine Addict]

Disappointed they picked an actual High Schooler. For me, part of the 1990s charm of Buffy was seeing a bunch of hot twentysomething women attending Sunnydale High.

Guess I'll just have to hope the MILFs are quality.

[Visitor]

Using older actors meant they could work longer hours per day than minors.

Too bad Josh Whedon killed off Cordelia Chase. It could have been so fun Mohave her snark about anther cry Buffy and putting down the next Chosen.

[VegaTaxeca]

I just heard that the new Buffy series has been scrapped by Hulu.

[bushwackerbob]

I just heard that the new Buffy series has been scrapped by Hulu.

That's unfortunate. I would have liked to have seen a modern take on the classic Buffy series. We rarely ever get an explanation from execs on why these projects don't go forward.

[Femina]

[Dazzle1]

The pilot was not good according to sources

Most reboots have been poor -aka Star trek and Doctor Who and Disney knows what a dumpster fire New who was

[lionbadger]

it's a thing of its time, I doubt it would work now and viewing habits are different

[Visitor]

They reworked the pilot to make it more adult and more time with SMG. This was to broaden the audience.

An executive that hated the original was the main reason it wasn't picked up.

[sneakly]

it's a thing of its time, I doubt it would work now and viewing habits are different

I think it could have been done. Similar horror comedies have succeeded. The Chilling adventures of Sabrina had a full run, Wednesday and Stranger things have all been pretty popular and followed a similar, intrepid teen sleuth format. The idea of episodic shows covering a longer story arc has also become much more established.

The big problem may have been that the creative heart of the original show had a problematic history and they were unable to build the right production team. Some times the writing just doesn’t work. Whedon, as I recall wrote virtually all of the Buffy scripts, and it would be difficult to replace that.

[lionbadger]

I just stole the whole post in the end but I kept the quote marks for some reason?

I haven't seen it but I heard that the Chilling adventures of Sabrina was a car crash of mary sue writer inserts.

Agree that Wednesday and Stranger things have all been pretty popular and followed a similar, intrepid teen sleuth format. And also true that the idea of episodic shows covering a longer story arc has also become more established (thank you JMS and Babylon 5!).

For me the core problem is trying to remake something that tires to capture the old audience while also trying to capture a new audience. It's not a new thing or a quirky thing and a chunk of viewership has expectations while the actual target, new teens etc have different expectations. Trying to thread that needle would be a nightmare I guess.

They other thing i guess is the flip side of what you mention, that the teen sleuths, spooky goings on genre isn't fresh and there are some shows doing it a lot better than "nerds sit in a library/living room/coffee shop/bar then beat up decreasingly powerful vampires"

[sneakly]

I just stole the whole post in the end but I kept the quote marks for some reason?

I haven't seen it but I heard that the Chilling adventures of Sabrina was a car crash of mary sue writer inserts.

Agree that Wednesday and Stranger things have all been pretty popular and followed a similar, intrepid teen sleuth format. And also true that the idea of episodic shows covering a longer story arc has also become more established (thank you JMS and Babylon 5!).

For me the core problem is trying to remake something that tires to capture the old audience while also trying to capture a new audience. It's not a new thing or a quirky thing and a chunk of viewership has expectations while the actual target, new teens etc have different expectations. Trying to thread that needle would be a nightmare I guess.

They other thing i guess is the flip side of what you mention, that the teen sleuths, spooky goings on genre isn't fresh and there are some shows doing it a lot better than "nerds sit in a library/living room/coffee shop/bar then beat up decreasingly powerful vampires"

I'll admit my standards are low for cute female detectives, especially when the villains are steeped in the occult. All reboots are a second attempt to catch lightning in a bottle. They rarely work. A well done monster of the week series with associated eye candy is always welcomed. From the producer's perspective, reboots are attractive. They provide name recognition, a pre-done bit of world building and possibly some curious nostalgia seekers. That format was how the CW was able to milk so much out of their superhero line up for as long as it did. And there is nothing wrong with that. I'll admit, Buffy was a creature of her times. The cast was made up of 20-something teenagers back when that was how you made shows about teenagers. The new Buffy was going to use (if I understood it) a real teenager, which would made watching it kind of creepy...