I shall attempt to compose this entire piece, pretending that my tween years are not thoroughly confounded and upset, crying in their teddy bear strewn room and that the show’s creators are not TOTALLY going to hell for this.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the peeps who own the piece of my childhood, entitled Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are planning to blow off the cobwebs and relaunch the show. It shall be a show devoid of big hair and boxy, plain 90s clothes and instead laced with 90210-worthy web 2.0 speak and ‘trendy’ references to Twitter.
For those reading who are as G.D. old as I am will remember their tween years watching this sh*t, as today’s annoying shrill children will one day mistakenly look back and remember their beloved singing Prostitot and those three brothers with bothersome eyebrows.
The franchise started with a 1992 movie starring Kristy Swanson that I caught on the rebound, and then some time later some genius decided to make some money by taking LSD and conceptualising the world’s least plausible TV show.
Now, fans of the Buffyverse have been clamoring for a feature extension ever since the show’s end in 2003; and they’ve made the Whedon-overseen comic books best sellers. Whedon has long been the hand on the wheel of the Buffy franchise, and his cultish fanbase are legion. That raucous sound you hear is that fanbase currently consulting an engineer to figure out exactly how to support all of the hell they’re gonna raise. Because — get this — Whedon isn’t involved. AT ALL.
The only reason that Buffy remains a viable franchise is because of the rabid, happy-to-purchase fanbase. And the only reason that fanbase exists is because of Joss Whedon. (There are actually t-shirts out there with “Joss Whedon is my master now” printed on them.) Why leave all that money on the table simply to make a shoddy Twilight-lite? Because there’s no way those fans would turn out if Whedon wasn’t involved — what’s more, they’d actively work to undermine it in every way possible. (via Pop Watch & Hollywood Reporter)
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This better be good. Everyone is always so eager to ruin good things. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Me too. If it’s 90210 mark 3 or whatever, I’m gonna scream!
I loved the Buffy movie growing up! I wasn’t into the show as much when they went off to college. College ruins everything, I would know heehee but this is kind of exciting. Now as long as they don’t Dawn in the show, this will be awesome!!
College and having to grow up screwed with my TV viewing too
Hope this is not ruined, it had definite moments of being awesome and could be again.
holy hell! what are they thinking? i also hear none of the characters or actors are going ot be in this thing. in other words, it’ll be the equivalent to that Catwoman movie. similar in name only to the source material.
they’re going to lose money on this unless they get Whedon behind it or somehow brainwash his disciples…lol
I know, it’s like all those Destiny’s Child switcheroos. You cannot just give it the same name and call it a day. Must try harder.
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