{"id":10804,"date":"2010-11-22T23:27:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:58:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:58:38","slug":"buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/22\/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Reboot Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Warner Brothers is moving ahead with their previously announced<\/a> plans at bringing fan favorite Buffy, The Vampire Slayer<\/strong> back to the big screen in a new movie that will reboot the franchise.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em> is reporting that tyro screenwriter Whit Anderson is currently working on a screenplay that would relaunch the franchise. Anderson\u2019s approach was sufficiently interesting enough to get Charles Roven, one of the producers on Batman Begins<\/strong>, to sign onto the project.<\/p>\n

In typical producer-hype, Roven is quoted by the Times<\/em> as saying, \u201cThere is an active fan base eagerly awaiting this character\u2019s return. While this is not your high-school Buffy, she\u2019ll be just as witty, tough and sexy as we all remember her to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, while he is right that Buffy fans, and I count myself in that group, would love to see a return of the blonde vampire slayer to either movies or television, Roven seem to be missing out on one key element that most fans would not even consider a Buffy revival without \u2013 the active participation of Buffy\u2019s creator, Joss Whedon.<\/p>\n

As I pointed out the last time we heard about a possible big screen revival of Buffy, the thing that made Buffy unique was the approach to the material and distinct authorial voice that Whedon brought. Compare the 1992 film, in which directors Fran Rubel Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui tried to force the material in a different direction from Whedon\u2019s script, to the superior television series in which Whedon had final creative authority as its producer.<\/p>\n

Now I have to give Anderson some credit. She says that she watched the show at an age when she could really connect with the character. And she certainly seems to have a good grip on the character when she states –<\/p>\n

The thing that was so wonderful about Buffy<\/strong> is what made it special\u00a0was so timeless. The deep struggle she had with duty and destiny, that tug between what you\u2019re supposed to be\u00a0doing and what you want <\/em>to be doing. The fate of the world is on her shoulders, but some days she wakes up, and she just doesn\u2019t want to do it. And are we doomed and destined to love someone?\u00a0 That conflict\u00a0was very interesting to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, it was too early to tell what will happen with this, so there is no need to sharpen our wooden stakes just yet. Anderson could just be talking a good game but have no skills as a script writer. She may contribute something unique and wonderful to the franchise only to have it washed away in a sea of rewrites from other scripters. Warner Brothers may never give the project a greenlight for production. The final product could be so good that we are left asking ourselves, \u201cJoss who?\u201d (Though I doubt this last one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warner Brothers is moving ahead with their previously announced plans at bringing fan favorite Buffy, The Vampire Slayer back to the big screen in a new movie that will reboot the franchise. The Los Angeles [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}