Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reboot 'Not Just Revisiting the Past' But Will Honor Show's Original DNA, Sarah Michelle Gellar Says

Buffy the Vampire Slayer herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, has said that the series' upcoming reboot volition beryllium much than conscionable a means to revisit the past, portion emphasizing that the caller task volition inactive grant the archetypal show.

Speaking to IGN, Gellar said that the Buffy revival would beryllium "meaningful" to fans of the archetypal who loved its absorption connected recovered household — which, backmost successful the day, meant Buffy's loyal radical of friends.

The upcoming Buffy reboot introduces a caller Slayer, played by Star Wars: Skeleton Crew's Ryan Kiera Armstrong, and a caller formed of characters that see a caller batch of precocious schoolhouse classmates. Gellar herself, however, volition inactive look successful a recurring role, including wrong the show's aviator episode, and enactment arsenic an enforcement producer.

"Fandoms similar Buffy inactive resonate contiguous — due to the fact that it’s not conscionable astir the show, but astir the assemblage that’s grown astir it," Gellar told IGN.

"For me, the bosom of Buffy was ever astir recovered household — that consciousness of belonging and being loved for who you are — and that’s much important present than ever. That’s what makes this caller section truthful meaningful, it’s not conscionable revisiting the past but honoring the show’s archetypal DNA. The information that radical inactive transportation specified emotion for the amusement aft each these years is incredibly special."

Alongside enactment connected the caller Buffy reboot pilot, filming of which is present underway, Gellar is presently overseeing different 90s revival, eBay '95, a 1990s-themed eBay merchantability lawsuit for the online auction site's 30th day this week. Her concern involves curating a database of the 30 sought-after collector's items from the decade, with each proceeds benefiting Make-A-Wish.

Items successful the database see a 1999 Charizard Holo 1st Edition Shadowless Pokémon Trading Card, a Red Card Wave Luke Skywalker Jedi Brown figurine, a Spider-Man #1 Gold Torment Variant comic signed by Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane, and a LEGO Black Knight Dungeon Master's Castle set.

"Everyone is passionate astir something, possibly it’s LEGO, trading cards, oregon comic books, and each of these things inactive bring radical joy," Gellar said of the auction. "And astatine the bosom of it, that’s what fandom truly is – uncovering a assemblage of radical who emotion the aforesaid things you do. Pairing this curation with Make-A-Wish, a foundation truthful adjacent to my heart, made it a no-brainer."

Gellar told IGN she was "sworn to secrecy" connected further details of the caller Buffy series, a sentiment she continued successful a caller station connected Instagram sharing a fistful of caller down the scenes photos from the aviator episode's production. The images amusement Gellar with the series' nonstop Chloé Zhao, arsenic good arsenic the histrion holding an archetypal Buffy the Vampire Slayer figurine (speaking of, Gellar has signed different figurine, and a Buffy Funko Pop, arsenic portion of the auction).

The images besides amusement a enactment from Zhao to the reboot's pilot's cast, shared connected what looks to beryllium a telephone expanse for the shoot's archetypal time of filming.

"Let's embark connected this escapade unneurotic with joy, empathy, curiosity and respect," Zhao wrote. "Life is some beauteous and difficult. We volition beryllium rewarded and tested. We volition beryllium brave. We volition unrecorded to the fullest and cognize that we are ne'er alone. We volition ever person each other. Happy archetypal day! Chloé."

The caller Buffy reboot is being produced by Hulu, which is yet to formally denote if the aviator volition beryllium picked up for a afloat series. If it does, the bid is expected acceptable to spell into afloat accumulation adjacent spring. For now, there's nary connection yet connected immoderate further returning characters different than Buffy herself, but Gellar has antecedently said she hopes to spot different classical characters return. Indeed, Buffy histrion Charisma Carpenter has already told IGN she'd beryllium keen to appear, aft an "unjust" extremity to her quality connected spin-off Angel.

Image credit: Sarah Michelle Gellar

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