"Buffy The Vampire Slayer" is coming back to the big screen says The Hollywood Reporter.But not in the way fans of the TV series may expect...
Fran Rubel Kuzui, the director of the the original Buffy 1992 flick featuring Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens, and Donald Sutherland- with cameos by Hilary Swank, Ben Affleck, David Arquette, and Ricki Lake is mounting this new effort with--Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment Production Company.
Buffy mastermind Joss Whedon's involvement has not been ruled out--but he has not been offered to participate yet either....
The new film will not have any connection to the TV series, nor would it use popular supporting characters--It would start anew without Sarah Michelle Gellar or anyone else and it would be a darker, event-sized movie that would, of course, have franchise potential that includes sequels.
A Buffy film without Whedon is like a Star Wars without George Lucas...Having a whole new mythology only serves to alienate fans. Since Kuzui was there for the series she should know that a total new beginning is a mistake...Buffy is not Star Trek of course, but at least that reboot respected much of what has come before and did it every step of the way...
If Joss isn't there on the film neither am I as a supporter....
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