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Hmmm, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's new Show-runner addresses Reboot Backlash. -- Hint? It's not a Remake. Apparently the show-runner defines reboot the same way as various people on my Dreamwidth subscriber list do?
Sounds like STNG or Force Awakens more than say BattleStar Galatica 2.0 or Dynasty 2.0 or Charmed 2.0 or Magnum PI 2.0.
Which makes more sense, since Whedon created a world with Buffy that existed past the characters.
I wonder what they'll call it though? Slayer? Buffy's Legacy? Buffy's Decendants? Buffy Take 2?
Still don't get too excited...the process is an arduous one. We're just at the Pitchening Stage, we have Nine Stages to go. See: The Whole Crazy Process of Creating a TV Show.
Also look, someone created a nifty video on how a thirteen episode television series gets made:
I'm very happy that I don't do this for a living.
In a statement posted to her verified Twitter account, Owusu-Breen writes “it could be time to meet a new Slayer.”
“For some genre writers it’s Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars. Before I became a writer, I was a fan,” Owusu-Breen wrote. “For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight, and struggle and slay,” she wrote. “There is only one Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel … They can’t be replaced. Joss Whedon’s brilliant and beautiful series can’t be replicated. I wouldn’t try to. But here we are, 20 years later … and the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer … And that’s all I can say.”
A reboot of the supernatural drama is in development at Fox 21 TV Studios, the cable/streaming division of 20th Century Fox TV, the studios behind the original series, which ran for seven seasons, first on the WB and then on UPN. Original series’ creator and showrunner Joss Whedon will executive produce alongside original series’ exec producers Gail Berman, Fran Kazui and Kaz Kazui as well as Joe Earley from Berman’s Jackal Group.
The new version, which will be pitched to streaming and cable networks this summer, will be contemporary, building on the mythology of the original. Per the producers: “Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today.”
Sounds like STNG or Force Awakens more than say BattleStar Galatica 2.0 or Dynasty 2.0 or Charmed 2.0 or Magnum PI 2.0.
Which makes more sense, since Whedon created a world with Buffy that existed past the characters.
I wonder what they'll call it though? Slayer? Buffy's Legacy? Buffy's Decendants? Buffy Take 2?
Still don't get too excited...the process is an arduous one. We're just at the Pitchening Stage, we have Nine Stages to go. See: The Whole Crazy Process of Creating a TV Show.
Also look, someone created a nifty video on how a thirteen episode television series gets made:
I'm very happy that I don't do this for a living.