The crew behind Hulu’s upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot has already staked out area for themselves, based on an encouraging replace from authentic Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar.
“We’ve arrange our workplaces, which implies issues are progressing most likely quicker than I’d anticipated,” Gellar informed Folks not too long ago. “However it’s going to be a course of, I believe. To do it the way in which it must be executed, everybody needs to be affected person with all of us, as a result of this isn’t one thing that [will just happen].”
Followers realized final month {that a} Buffy sequel sequence from twentieth Tv and Searchlight Tv was nearing a pilot order at Hulu, with a brand new actor taking part in the Slayer and Gellar returning to play Buffy Summers in a recurring function.
Authentic Buffy producers Gail Berman, Fran Kuzui, Kaz Kuzui, and Dolly Parton — sure, that Dolly Parton — will return to exec-produce the reboot.
Gellar can even be an EP on the sequel sequence, as will Oscar-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao, who can even function director, and Nora and Lilla Zuckerman, who can even function writers and showrunners.
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Gellar stated she was enthusiastic about each the premise of and the crew behind the brand new model. “I pinch myself day-after-day after I get into these rooms, and I’m Gail Berman, the Zuckermans, and Chloé Zhao,” she stated. “It’s an unimaginable group.”
Working with Zhao — who gained Academy Awards for steering and producing the 2020 movie Nomadland — is a selected deal with for Gellar.
“There was no world the place I assumed Chloé Zhao was going to name me and companion with me, and ask my recommendation on issues and my opinion — particularly as a result of she hasn’t executed tv,” she stated. “She’ll name me, and he or she’ll say, ‘Nicely, I’ve to defer to you,’ and I’m like, ‘Wait, what?’ These aren’t phrases I ever thought I’d hear.”
Gellar additionally stated it’s “the best reward” that the unique Buffy “stands the take a look at of time” and that new audiences are discovering the supernatural teen drama, which ran for seven seasons on The WB and UPN between 1997 and 2003.
Untitled Buffy Reboot, TBD, Hulu