Reboot Confirmed


Original cast will not be involved.


WHY BOTHER?

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Just like i called Higgins would be a woman on the Magnum reboot i'm calling this now.Buffy will either be hispanic or black.Gender,race and LGBTQ politics run Hollywood at the moment.Just look at the new multiracial Charmed cast.

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The plan is to have a black lead.

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Yup.That's PC Hollywood.

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Its been confirmed that Buffy will be black. Liberals who don't know the show are just virtue signalling again, they could easily remake it with Kendra if they were desperate for a black female lead.

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or they could have made it with Nikki Wood, The First. So many characters who are black slayers who do exist to chose from.

This is just a very stupid move.

After all the pouting Joss had notoriously done re the screenplay of the 1992 movie.....I can't believe that he would allow this now. Wow!

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I'd have loved a Nikki Wood show but I doubt people would remember that character enough for it to be marketable.

Not to mention the fact that her time was set in the 1970s. (or was it the 80s? I forget)

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people did not necessarily remember 'buffy' when that TV series debuted... and it worked well.


TV has shows previously set in past....American Dreams, That 70's show, the Goldbergs and they do just fine

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ha good point, but I don't know. I think something like a Buffy reboot would be expected to be modern day with some flashbacks of SMGs 90s stuff.

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He's about as blowharded as SJWs get. He probably came up with the idea.

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Apparently the plan is that she is going to be a successor of Buffy's.

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I'll try to give it the benefit of the doubt, but it will be begrudgingly.

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No interest whatsoever.

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Ditto I am not watching. If they had actually researched show's history and put time/care into it I'd tune in---and be VERY big fan.

But this is just garbage.

Count me among the masses who will be boycotting.

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Honestly I would have been with a follow u Buffy Angel mini series. Dave doesn't seem to age at all, and he and Sarah onscreen again could give us the happy ending we never got. Why Not?

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Eh I'll give it a chance. I'd hope that they will retain the same kind of great writing/character development that went into Angels show along with what made SMG Buffy the iconic show it was. Otherwise this thing wont go any further than Girl Meets World did.

I can't see it lasting very long without some eventual cameos and possible brief main stays from the original cast though. Like I could definitely see James Marsters being interested in reprising the Spike role.

He's older now but if necessary maybe they could use the Lola VFX technology that made Michael Douglas look almost 20 years younger in the Ant-Mans movies flash back scenes. Spike is awesome regardless but I think it's possible considering Joss worked with them before doing The Avengers: Age of Ultron.


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Where o I begin? First of all, let's get this out of the way right off the bat: Reboots just suck. There has never been one so far that has been worth half a crap over its original. The only reason the 1997 Buffy succeeded over its original movie was that it was Whedon's truest vision of the story. Other than that, TV reboots fall flat almost every time.

Now secondly, regarding a more diverse cast, I'm all for diversity, when choosing a cast because they are GOOD, not because "waaaah waaaah waaaah we want to be included!!!!" I am all for an African American Buffy, an Asian Buffy, a Hispanic Buffy, or a paisley, plaid, purple or polka dotted Buffy, as long as she is chosen because she is good. Not because of what kind of skin she has. It's almost like we've gone completely to the other extreme. Where once, people were discarded because of their skin, they are now chosen BECAUSE of it - or rather, because they will scream and holler if NOT chosen for it. Fuck that. No wonder Movies and TV aren't worth a shit anymore. No one has to be good. They just have to have Hollywood by the balls. And they do.

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Do these reboots usually have the original people behind the scenes involved though? because that seems to be the case with this new Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At least Joss is on board so that should be a good sign for it's chances of succeeding.

Like you said the 97 show succeeded because it was Whedons truest vision of the story, and now he's likely looking to take that vision to even greater heights.

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