Buffy the Vampire Slayer is making a comeback, and Sarah Michelle Gellar is sharpening her stakes.
The enduring slayer is stepping again into the world of Sunnydale, this time mentoring a brand-new Chosen One performed by Ryan Kiera Armstrong.
Followers first met Armstrong in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and now she’s taking over a lead position within the upcoming Buffy sequel sequence, moving into the footwear of a younger slayer named Nova.
Because of a leaked logline, we’ve acquired some story particulars. Nova is described as “a 16-year-old bookworm” who discovers her future as a slayer in a newly rebuilt Sunnydale. The city is now cut up between gritty Outdated Sunnydale and the extra upscale New Sunnydale.
Issues kick off throughout “Vampire Weekend,” an area pageant commemorating Sunnydale’s eerie previous. That’s when the vampire duo Jack and Shirley rise from a building web site, murdering a teen and kicking off a ritual to unleash a vampire military at a spot ominously dubbed the Cursed Circle.
How Buffy returns to the fold isn’t absolutely clear but, however followers can anticipate her to indicate up as soon as phrase of a brand new slayer spreads. Gellar not too long ago dropped a behind-the-scenes coaching video on Instagram, teasing her bodily prep with Armstrong to get into vampire-slaying mode.
In a beforehand shared heartfelt publish, Gellar opened up about how the revival got here collectively:
“So….. you might need heard some information this week, however I notice you haven’t heard from me. Three years in the past, I acquired a name from my expensive buddy and mentor, Gail Berman. She instructed me that she wished me to sit down down with Chloé Zhao to listen to her tackle a possible ‘Buffy’ revival.
“I used to be blown away that Chloé even knew who I used to be, however, as I’ve at all times completed, I instructed Gail that I simply didn’t see a manner for the present to exist once more. We’d at all times been aligned on that, however this time I heard one thing totally different in her voice. I ultimately agreed to go (primarily simply to satisfy Chloé) and our twenty minute espresso rapidly was a 4 hour journey.
“We laughed, we cried, however principally we each talked about how a lot this present means to us. Whereas I didn’t comply with something at that assembly, I did shock myself by agreeing to proceed the dialog.
“These conversations did, in actual fact, proceed over the subsequent few years and ultimately we added the unbelievable Nora and Lilla Zuckerman to our little tribe till finally, in the future, we landed on an concept. I’ve at all times listened to the followers and heard your want to revisit ‘Buffy’ and her world, however it was not one thing I may do until I used to be certain we’d get it proper.
“This has been an extended course of, and it’s not over but. I promise you, we are going to solely make this present if we all know we are able to do it proper. And I’ll inform you that we’re on the trail there. I really feel so fortunate to be on this journey with these 4 unbelievably gifted ladies, all of whom love ‘Buffy’ as a lot as I do. And as a lot as you do. Thanks to all of the followers who by no means stopped asking for this. This can be for you.”
The sequel sequence is being developed by Nora Zuckerman and Lila Zuckerman, who will function writers, showrunners, and govt producers. Oscar-winning Eternals director Chloé Zhao is directing the pilot and govt producing via her E-book of Shadows banner. Gellar can also be on board as an govt producer alongside Gail Berman, Fran Kuzui, Kaz Kuzui, and Dolly Parton by way of Sandollar, Suite B, and twentieth Tv/Searchlight Tv.
This isn’t the primary time a Buffy reboot has been in growth. An earlier model, which might’ve featured a Black lead and was being written by Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Monica Owusu-Breen, was shelved final 12 months. However this new take has actual momentum behind it.
With Gellar again in motion and a the brand new slayer in Nova, the subsequent chapter of Buffy the Vampire Slayer could possibly be one thing that followers will love!
