Friday, December 23, 2011

Buffy Film Reboot Staked!

The misbegotten film reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has hit a snag and I for one couldn't be happier than Spike on feeding day....


Hero Complex reports that "the script submitted this past summer by writer  Whit Anderson fell far short of expectations and, in the end, was rejected completely."

According to one source who spoke to the trade Anderson brought “some great ideas” and “reinvented some of the lore,” there “just wasn’t enough on the page.” That comment doesn’t make a whole lot of sense without some context of the premise but it in any case it makes me smile

Anderson's hiring back in November of 2010 was heralded with with a big thud if only because no one had really ever heard of her before.

For those of you behind this idiotic notion the hunt for a new writer is on but "the entire endeavor may have lost some steam. There also might be some healthy fear among the producers who witnessed a spasm of fan criticism when the project was first publicized."

Those producers would be Charles Roven Steve Alexander Doug Davison and Roy Lee

Of course I'm smart enough to know they'll probably reboot it eventually but for now I am THRILLED that the pic is stalled.

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