OFFICIAL:Buffy Is Being Rebooted On TV. Joss Is Producing.

[sueworld]

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Oh dear. Now we know why the comics are being rushed through at the moment, to make way for the reboot.

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[shadowkat]

Yeah, I can't say the show-runner's previous efforts "Agents of Shield" and "Midnight, Texas" fill me with much confidence. Dread yes, confidence no. LOL! (I didn't enjoy Agents, and Midnight,Texas -- from the three episodes I saw -- had the worst production and casting and direction that I've seen. It was downright amateurish. Felt like a high school production of True Blood.)

I think they are trying to drum up interest. But this is a hard show to successfully reboot. It has an entrenched and passionate fandom. More so than say Hawaii 5-0, Magnum, P.I. or even BattleStar Galatica did. This fandom is similar to the Trek fandom. And it took a lot longer than twenty years to reboot the original Star Trek and that was as a movie franchise and even it has stumbled a bit.

And the fandom is rather split in some respects, they appear to be more fans of Buffy, Spike, Willow, Xander, and Angel than Whedon. LOL! In fact many Buffy fans really don't like Whedon any longer and feel betrayed by him. (As you noted above, and I agree -- seen the same reactions.)

Also I don't think they'll be able to cover the same kind of stuff the old show did as the material would be deemed too sensitive sadly and to be frank I don't have any confidence in todays writers being able to deliver and nowadays I include Whedon in that. And why do it anyway? Let them bugger around with a new character set in the verse and leave the original alone.

Agreed. Also there's a lot of stuff like it already out there in various forms.
I honestly don't think Whedon made Buffy all on his own -- having read the comics, and seen other things he has done since, I'm convinced of it. There were ten other writers involved and they added to it. So the success of a reboot really depends on the writers involved and the risks they are willing too take.

I honestly will be surprised if it gets picked up and gets off the ground. But there's an interesting pattern emerging here in regards to Whedon. He gets booted off Batgirl (allegedly because he has no ideas). After a couple of months of silence, he bounces back with not one, but three female centric television series about action-hero women in various settings. The first feels like a non-super-powered version of his Batgirl concept -- a female detective in college (which has apparently been picked up by Freeform), the second a Victorian Steam Punk female action-hero set up for HBO (which was picked up by HBO) and the third a Buffy reboot. (Note he didn't do the Firefly reboot everyone wanted him to do.). I'm wondering if he's trying to do his Batgirl concept elsewhere?

Hmmm. Makes me wonder about the Batgirl concept/script that DC and Warner Brothers turned down. Although, I have a feeling we'll get a chance to see it in one of these three shows, depending on which ones actually get picked up.