‘Buffy’ Reboot
Give Us Our Slayer Again, You Blood-Sucking Fits!!!
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It has been a month since information broke that the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot was canned over at Disney … and followers are nonetheless making it clear they’re pissed.
Here is the deal … Disney pulled the plug on the Sarah Michelle Gellar venture, which was slated to debut on Hulu as a tender reboot of the favored ’90s sci-fi/horror sequence. We hear SMG was blindsided by the rug pull … and followers had been furious.
And it appears followers are nonetheless fairly heated … as a result of a gaggle of about 20 folks protested at Hulu’s Santa Monica workplace on Tuesday — a month to the day of the reboot’s cancellation — to demand their vampire sequence return from the lifeless. It additionally occurs to be SMG’s birthday, which followers adopted as Worldwide Buffy Day.
Sporting ‘Buffy’ swag and carrying pro-Buffy indicators … the group made it clear there’s a starvation for brand new Buffy — so get the undead present on the highway!
A supply near SMG and slated revival director Chloé Zhao beforehand instructed TMZ … each ladies felt blindsided by the information, to not point out the timing — as Sarah simply had a killer opening at SXSW for her new film “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” and Chloé had the 8 Oscar nominations for “Hamnet.”
We’re instructed Sarah and Chloé had been each eagerly wanting ahead to persevering with Buffy’s legacy and sharing their imaginative and prescient with the followers.
The reboot — titled “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale” — was first introduced in February 2025. It was anticipated to star Ryan Kiera Armstrong as the brand new slayer, however have Sarah reprise her Buffy character in a recurring position.
The ‘Buffy’ sequence ran for 7 seasons starting in 1997, and was based mostly on the 1992 movie of the identical title.
Slay, followers.
