Fans Want To See Buffy The Vampire Slayer Back?

[outofphase]

no, i completely agree about the relaunch part... not so much about the canon part. a relaunch seems to me like it would be a slap in the face to everything the original series was and stood for. it's a classic, let it go be a classic.

a relaunch would probably suck anyways. >.>

[timeturningbabe]

Sept 17, 2010 16:45:22 GMT -5 jellymoff said:

^^^

Yeah, I really don't think there's any chance of Buffy coming back to TV unless it is a remake ala "V" or "Nikita". I leave a tiny bit of hope for a movie if the Avengers his huge and Joss has tons of power, but even then, its getting too late. I really don't think DB and JM can play vamps anymore. I mean, they both look good, but they definitely look older. I was having a hard time with DB even in Angel Season 5. He was looking older, gained some weight (I think he had an injury or something that contributed). Again, still looked great, but didn't look immortal.

JM looked very old and skinny on his last appearance. I was teary.

[SOMNAMBULIST 2.0]

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, and Eliza Dushku don't even look old at all, they could still do it and look like it's only been a few years after Sunnydale.

[midwesternwatcher]

The new Star Trek movie worked, if it did, because it was a new story with new actors.

I agree that Next Generation is the best of the Star Trek stuff, partly because it departed from the formula in significant ways. A new Buffy would have to do the same thing.

When I said nobody cared about the old Star Trek, I thought it was clear I was referring to the 1960's series with William Shatner, which is painful to watch now.

I stand by what I said. We must have new stories with new actors, or we'll die out. If we're still around in 100 years, the old Buffy TV show will be a minor part of our interest. We can take the Sherlock Holmes fandom as a model.

[SOMNAMBULIST 2.0]

I have another thought. There could be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Next Generation, in which it is a spin-off based on the Potential Slayers. Buffy could make occasional appearances, but...And Dawn could be in it, for what I'm not sure, though.

[wenxina]

But why call it Buffy the Vampire Slayer then? Other than hoping to cash in on a popular title, which people would see through after the first episode. It wouldn't be about Buffy. It would be about the next generation of Slayers. Joss had to fight to keep the title, since at one point, they were going to just call the show Slayer. Buffy the Vampire Slayer emphasizes the point that the show is about a girl, who happens to be a Slayer, whereas Slayer disregards the individual for a title that refers to the lineage. In short, it would have largely missed the point.

[jtmaster13]

They are thinking of doing another movie, however since from what I am hearing Joss isn't going to be involved that more than likely means no original cast members will be back. I think doing a movie on one of the potentials could work, but obviously you can't call it Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If they want do another film it would have to focus on another potential, so you can have a different type of story being told, that or you might have to deal with the fact that they will cast someone else as the new Buffy.

[wenxina]

Am aware of the reboot movie... have no real stock in it. For one, the whole thing about going "darker"... that's Hollywood talk for making it Blade-esque. It'll be a blonde girl with super-strength, speed, stamina, etc. But she'll not be quipping as much as she will be CGI-rendered into doing the most improbable stunt work, probably with some shiny weapon of choice (not the Scythe... probably too hokey to be "dark"). Instead of wit, she'll have "badass" lines like "That could've gone better" (yeah, I'm looking at you, Nikita). She'll have a penchant for Megan Fox-type outfits, and have the emotional depth of a teaspoon, because in all fairness, it's not easy to make an action-thriller with plenty of heart in it. Which means the requisite death of someone she cares about, even if it's the homeless dude who she exchanged two sentences with... that will somehow spurn her into action, getting over herself and accepting her calling. It'll be the entire S1 compressed into roughly 105 minutes, with a vampire who's so badass that his entrance will be shrouded in mystery, to be revealed in parts over the first half of the movie. And he'll have the fearsome reputation of being some kinda priest/warlock which means that he'll probably also have some other supernatural powers not usually attributed to vampires.

Oh, and this Buffy... she'll be a real outsider... no one understands her... and she'll blame it on being the Slayer... but really, it's because she'll be Bella Swan in disguise... y'know, different color hair means it has to be a different character, right?

The Watchers' Council is now kinda the men in black. They don't wear tweed... tweed's for the silly English. No... there must be menace and badassery here, and what says menace and badassery more than black suits, dark sunglasses, and black vans. Her Watcher will be younger, extremely dapper, and surprise of all surprises Buffy will have some hot and heaviness for him. The Council will have crazy high tech equipment... why go old school? That's not cool.

There'll be less mysticism involved... it'll all boil down to a battle of good vs evil... dichotomies are always so much easier to write...

And the number of times I've said "badass" in this post... I realized that I can only ever use it with a ton of irony.

[Scarygothgirl]

I think if they make a film without Joss it'd have the same effect as the new bond films. All the old fans watch it because they feel they have to. All the women completely lose interest. And the only people who actually like it are the people who only like action films, and the people who like whatever they're told to like.

[The Girl In Question]

I, like midwesternwatcher am going to be a wet blanket and say that, despite my opnion on the topic, we are never going to have a Buffy series with the same actors again. Unless it's a spinoff with new characters and an old actor makes a guest appearance or something (and it definitely won't be SMG), it just won't happen. Wow, that sounds really mean but...yeah. Sorry.

Wenxina, I hope the day when that Buffy movie is made NEVER comes

[wenxina]

@tgiq: What... you don't like my script proposal? It's basically every action movie cliche I could think of lumped into one badass movie. No? Feel free to insert more cliches... we could even have a tally of how many of those cliches come to pass if that movie is actually made.

[jtmaster13]

I think the series is amazing with those 7 seasons, and even the comic, because at least it's still continuing. And to wenxina's comment above, I agree with how that new movie would go. Which is why a movie could never work when you think about it, because you have no time to really develop the characters and give them layers. That's why it was so successful as a television show.