Apparently Buffy is being rebooted...

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Urgh sorry to have disappeared for so long, I’ve finally managed to resolve the issues with my home broadband :shakes fist at TalkTalk:

So what does everyone think about the news that’s just come out on a Buffy reboot?

One of the most beloved TV series of the past two decades, Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is making a comeback. 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

Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen has been tapped as writer, executive producer and showrunner of the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with the original series’ creator and showrunner Whedon set to 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.”

According to sources, the diversity in the show’s description reflects the producers’ intention for the new slayer to be African American. The sources cautioned that the project is still in nascent stages with no script, and many details are still in flux

(Article from deadline which LJ won’t let me link)

I’m really struggling to understand why they would want to recast Buffy the character? I’m sure that many fans would love it if this new show was a sequel with brand new characters and the new actress playing her own slayer, that way they could also feature some of the Buffy characters in cameos even as it would be an actual continuation of the original. Or they could follow the story of a slayer set in the past, how awesome could that be! But very few of us want to see Buffy’s story rebooted, the original was good enough for me

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Just from reading the article, I assumed it would be a new Slayer, not Buffy herself, but maybe it doesn't make as much sense to them as it makes to us. ^^;;

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I wondered that as everyone is saying that a new slayer show makes the most sense, but I’m definitely reading about them casting an actress to play Buffy, so it does seem like it’s being marketed as a straight-up reboot at the moment and it will be a new actress playing the role of Buffy? I’m hoping that plans could change once the backlash becomes apparent though lol, it doesn’t sound like talks are that far along at the moment