Sarah Michelle Gellar May Have More Buffy in Her After All

It’s been implicit fractional a decennary since 20th Century Fox revealed its plans to reboot Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While determination hasn’t been overmuch of it since then, it was lone a fewer years aboriginal that archetypal pb Sarah Michelle Gellar said she’d had her capable of the quality and wasn’t looking to instrumentality anytime soon, chiefly since she was looking to region herself from creator Joss Whedon pursuing allegations of maltreatment and misconduct from Charisma Carpenter and Ray Fisher.

But times person changed, and Gellar precocious came onto Drew Barrymore’s speech amusement to hype up the Dexter prequel she’s in. While there, she indicated she’d beryllium much unfastened to a instrumentality nowadays. She inactive considers the original Buffy “in its bubble and truthful perfect,” but the sequel roar for aged shows similar Dexter and Sex & the City has made her recognize the antithetic ways 1 could revitalize a classical series. The reboot’s archetypal transportation was to absorption connected a caller hero, but Gellar noted Buffy “could beryllium anything. It’s a universe, and makes you recognize that successful this world, we request those heroes, much than ever.”

Since Buffy ended successful 2003, the franchise has been sustained done comics by Boom! Studios, novels, and past year’s Slayers audio drama. Pretty overmuch immoderate amusement wrong the past 20-30 years is apt to get a sequel oregon prequel, arsenic we learned erstwhile Disney revealed its plans to bash a Malcolm successful the Middle sequel earlier this week. In precocious January, producer Dolly Parton said it’s inactive being considered for a revamp, but volition Disney wound and greenlight it? And should it bash so, however volition satellite respond to it aft everything to bash with Whedon and truthful overmuch of the existent YA phantasy template borrowing from the archetypal series?

[via Variety]

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