Nearly seven years in the past, it was introduced {that a} reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was in improvement with Monica Owusu-Breen, co-creator of the TV present Midnight, Texas, writing, govt producing, and serving as showrunner. It was stated that the brand new present can be “contemporary, building on the mythology of the original.” That mission by no means made it into manufacturing – and earlier this yr, it was revealed that we’re going to be getting a Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival as a substitute, with Sarah Michelle Gellar returning to the position of Buffy Summers and Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, Eternals) directing the primary episode. Since then, teenage actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Firestarter) has been forged as a brand new slayer (an introverted highschool pupil named Nova), and immediately, Deadline studies that 5 actors have been forged in sequence common roles! They’re Faly Rakotohavana (Unprisoned), Ava Jean (Regulation & Order: SVU), Sarah Bock (Severance), Daniel Di Tomasso (CSI: Vegas) and Jack Cutmore-Scott (Frasier).
In response to Deadline, Rakotohavana will play Hugo, a privileged, likable high-school pupil who’s a geek; Jean will play Larkin, one other pupil described as a “chronic do-gooder”; Bock will play Gracie, the ringleader for a gaggle of church-going college students; Di Tomasso will play Abe, Nova’s single father who’s a photojournalist; and Scott will play Mr. Burke, a well-liked highschool trainer.
Oscar-winning director Zhao, who’s a self-professed lifelong Buffy fan, will likely be directing the pilot from a script by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (Poker Face). The revival is coming our means from twentieth Tv and Searchlight TV, the place Zhao has a first-look deal. Deadline lately stated that the revival can be “starting a writers room soon, a sign that Hulu and the studios have high expectations for the project going to series. It is unclear yet whether other original Buffy cast members would return; that is considered likely.”
That is being known as “the next chapter in the Buffyverse.” The revival is being govt produced by Gellar, Zhao, and the Zuckermans, in addition to the unique sequence’ govt producers Gail Berman of the Jackal Group and Fran Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui of Suite B. Additionally govt producing the pilot is Dolly Parton, whose firm Sandollar was behind the unique present. In case you’re questioning, “Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who also wrote the 1992 movie the series was based on, has no involvement in the reboot. He has not worked in Hollywood in any official capacity since facing a slew of misconduct allegations in 2021.”
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