{"id":53947,"date":"2026-03-14T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=53947"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:04:46","slug":"buffy-vampire-slayer-reboot-not-moving-forward-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/14\/buffy-vampire-slayer-reboot-not-moving-forward-hulu\/","title":{"rendered":"BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Reboot Not Moving Forward At Hulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer.jpg\" alt=\"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hulu has driven a stake through the heart of <em>Buffy The Vampire Slayer<\/em> revival.<\/p>\n<p><em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale<\/em>, the <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> reboot being developed at the streamer is not going forward to a full series, after it had already ordered and produced a pilot episode.<\/p>\n<p>Original series star Sarah Michelle Geller broke the news in a post on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DV31NdtDgWu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Sarah Michelle (@sarahmgellar)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This <em>Buffy<\/em> series was announced in early 2025 as a sequel to the original TV series which ran for seven seasons starting in 1997. Geller would be returning in her role as the Chosen One, woman picked to combat vampires and other supernatural baddies. This time around, she would be training a new generation of vampire slayers. Chloe Zhao was brought in to direct the pilot episode commissioned by Hulu, with a script by Lilla and Nora Zuckerman. No other cast members from the original series were announced as returning.<\/p>\n<p>This attempt at rebooting the franchise is just one in a series of tries since the original series wrapped its seven year run in 2003. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/26\/buffy-heading-to-big-screen-without-whedon\/\">film reboot<\/a> was in development at studio 20th Century Fox in 2009, while a TV reboot was reportedly in development with former <em>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.<\/em> writer\/producer Monica Owusu-Breen.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown if Hulu will still release the pilot film as a one-off special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Streamer Hulu has decided to not go ahead on its planned revival of the iconic BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER which would have seen the return of Sarah Michelle Gellar in the titular role.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/14\/buffy-vampire-slayer-reboot-not-moving-forward-hulu\/\" title=\"BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Reboot Not Moving Forward At Hulu\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53949,"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":[10285],"tags":[1670,10080,12302],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv-news","8":"tag-buffy-the-vampire-slayer","9":"tag-chloe-zhao","10":"tag-sarah-michelle-gellar"},"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\/53947","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=53947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53947"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=53947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}