'Buffy' Flick Gets Revived (Sans Whedon!)
The original Buffy was a silly early '90s flick featuring Kristy Swanson, dreamy Luke Perry as her BF Pike, Rutger Hauer as the bad vamp about town Lothos, a post-Pee Wee Paul Reubens as one of his henchmen, and Donald Sutherland as a told-ya-so! dude named Merrick who warned her she was a predestined kicker of vampire ass. Blink-and-miss-it cameos include Hilary Swank, Ben Affleck, gossip columnist Liz Smith, David Arquette, and Ricki Lake. Really.Now Buffy is getting a 21st century transfusion with help from the original director Fran Rubel Kuzui and producer Kaz Kuzui to create "what is being labeled a remake or relaunch, but not a sequel or prequel," according to Hollywood Reporter. So with that very oblique description in mind, it looks like this will be a sort of different incarnation of Buffy -- a different vampire "warrior" for a different generation. One with "franchise potential," of course. The Kuzuis are working with Vertigo Entertainment, aka Roy Lee and Doug Davison, which is responsible for many US remakes of Asian films like The Grudge, Dark Water, The Eye, and upcoming adaptations of Death Note, the Spielberg-Smith vehicle Oldboy, and Battle Royale. They're also remaking Creepshow.
Joss Whedon wrote the script for the original Buffy, although he's more famous for his feminist-y take on it in the long-running Sarah Michelle Gellar series. He will, however, not be involved with the new Buffy. Good luck to whomever they're bringing in to revamp this iconic chick because she or he has some big shoes to fill. Or it's entirely possible one of the many, many Buffy-philes might have a go at 'em with a big, pointy stake. Either way.
As far Joss? Well, Dr. Horrible's Twitter only says "Oy... http://bit.ly/gwmRt" If anyone would like to confirm if this is Joss's real Twitter account or not, we're all ears.
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5-26-2009 @ 11:15AM
shobz said...
i thought JJ Abrams was involved with Star Trek not Joss. I cant believe they are gonna make a movie with SMG.
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5-26-2009 @ 11:18AM
shobz said...
i mean without SMG.
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5-26-2009 @ 11:40AM
gamer18548 said...
Is this for real? What Joss has done to the Buffy character and mythos blows the original flick to smithereens. I can't imagine what an alternate-version of Buffy would even be for? This new film's success would ride upon the legacy of the TV series, not the film! There's still a comic book version of Joss's Buffy, Season 8! This reboot stuff is starting to get silly!
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5-26-2009 @ 11:42AM
Batzarro said...
Well, I'm always for more action films with female leads in em. That said, I'm not so sure about this.
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5-26-2009 @ 11:46AM
Kelly said...
Why mess with something that was near perfect? Not the original movie but the TV series. I wouldn't watch this that's for sure.
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5-26-2009 @ 11:56AM
Reid said...
I could be wrong but I think @drhorrible is Maurissa Tancharoen, co-writer of Dr. Horrible.
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5-26-2009 @ 12:03PM
Ryan said...
I will be first in line for any protests and/or riots. This is such a stupid idea, it's beyond ludicrous.
Just make a completely different movie about a vampire slayer. No Joss = No Buffy.
I can even understand if the original cast was not involved and/or not part of the movie. But making a Buffy movie with Joss Whedon would just be completely and utterly insane.
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5-26-2009 @ 12:57PM
Monika said...
Consider what happened when Joss didn't have full control of the movie. Blech. If they want a ass-kicking girl story, they should use the 'verse Whedon created with a different slayer.
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5-26-2009 @ 1:31PM
David Musto said...
I would like to thank the Kuzuis for this for finally pushing me over the edge enough to never see a remake again.
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5-26-2009 @ 1:55PM
Astin said...
Why go with Buffy? There's a rich universe there that could be mined. Go with another Slayer in another town, leave the name "Buffy" out of it.
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5-26-2009 @ 7:45PM
laura said...
Guess this means the "reboot" will have a scantily dressed buffy that the camera lingers on on the wrong places, with male sidekicks that are better at slaying than she, and make her some sappy needs-a-man-in-her-life kind of girl. I think real Buffy fans won't touch this crap with a ten foot pole!! We saw with the first few episodes of Dollhouse how taking things OUT of Joss Whedon's total control is a BAD IDEA-women get treated like toys and the plotlines SUCK! There's one movie I won't be seeing.
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5-27-2009 @ 10:13AM
ML said...
It's a little early to reboot for me. Whatever.
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7-05-2009 @ 6:17PM
RS said...
I really hope the studio realizes how moronic this idea is and that buffy fans will protest this movie and work on making it a big giant flop so there will never be a sequel and the kuzis can go bankrupt!!!
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7-26-2009 @ 8:33PM
Andie said...
A "reboot" are you kiddin me this isn't star trek!!Its buffy the series finished like 6 years ago theres still a comic book!!!It doesn't need a reboot it needs left alone by this bitch who ruined joss whedon's original attempt back in 1992. As for a new slayer for a new generation!!thats just bullshit, im 19 i am the new generation and i love the real buffy,Sarah Michelle Gellar!!and the others Willow, Spike Faith!!I want too see them not some twat who cant live up too the buffy role!! I pitty the actress who accepts this role it will be the end of her career!!Theres only one slayer for this generation and thats SMG!!!Real buffy fans need to fight this!!!I cant happen!!( It will be like eragon all over again if this goes through!!!)
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