Slayer no more.

[rogueslayer452]

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, Buffy: New Sunnydale, has been cancelled. Hulu will not be going forward with the series.

I can't say I'm surprised, but at the same time it is rather shocking considering the amount of buzz this created when the new series was announced. Sarah Michelle Gellar in particular was incredibly excited and even said she wouldn't be onboard with a reboot concept unless she really liked the direction of the story being sold to her, which after talking with Chloe Zhao it clearly did, and she's been hyping everything up about it ever since. Her announcing the series being axed is really heartbreaking, because you can tell she was passionate about at least seeing this project, the first season anyway, get finished and released. I might not have been entirely enthusiastic about this new series, but personal opinions and concerns aside I was curious to see what would've been done with it.

People are making speculations and pointing fingers for why the series fell through, from the script and the final product of the pilot being bad to differences of direction and fight for creative control, but ultimately the truth of the matter is we just don't know. For whatever reason, it just didn't work out.

Comments

[author_by_night]

I think I'm pretty much right where you are on this. Unsurprised, but a bit bummed, and very disappointed for Sarah. I do wonder if she's looking at other networks, but getting the rights back etc. is extremely challenging.

I think you're right too in that we can definitely speculate wildly, but we don't know and probably aren't going to anytime soon.

[rogueslayer452]

Especially since Disney owns the rights to BTVS, the likelihood of buying those rights back in the slightest is extremely low to practically nonexistent, which is unfortunate for many reasons.

[thefruitbat]

Not really surprised, but still a bit sad. I'm not a fan of reboots, but what she said about the project sounded quite promising.