Buffy the Vampire Slayer may be venturing forth once more…
But this time, without her most potent weapon — Joss Whedon.
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that not only is a new Buffy feature film in development, but it’s going forward without the input of her creator, Joss Whedon, who shepherded her through a film as well as an immensely successful television show (and comics).
This new film, which is being worked on by original director Fran Rabel Kuzui along with her husband Kaz and Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Doug Davison, would be a remake or relaunch of the franchise, leaving out supporting characters Willow, Angel, Xander, and Spike. According to the trade, Kuzui and Kuzui Enterprises has held on to the rights since Kuzui, “discovered the “Buffy” script from then-unknown Whedon. She developed the script while her husband put together the financing to make the 1992 movie, which was released by Fox.”
The producers are meeting with writers and hearing takes on the property, and while they do not rule out Whedon’s involvement, they have not reached out to him. Kuzui told the trade that they are constantly approached about not only Buffy film sequels but also theater, video games and foreign remakes.
“It was Roy’s interest in taking Buffy into a new place that grabbed us,” Fran Kuzui told THR.
Needless to say, many of the fans on Whedonesque are not thrilled — what say you, Rama readers?
May 25th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I quite like most of Whedon’s shows, though not as a huge fan of any (well.. okay, Firefly I love), but his… style MADE Buffy. Why on God’s green earth would someone watch that show if it didn’t have the Whedonesque elements?
Teenage, cheer-leading vampire slayer? Really?
May 25th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Another example of a creator getting ++++ed? I won’t be there opening day without Joss. Even as a fan of the Buffster. At least Mr Whedon is still around the comic book. As long as he is so am I. Pfffh,leaving out Xander and Willow. Maybe they should leave out the humor too.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:39 am
While they don’t say this, the real reason they would not use Xander, Willow, Spike, Angel, Giles, etc, in the new movie is because they can’t legally use those characters. It seems pretty clear that the contract Joss signed for his original feature script was not favorable to him, but by the time he was creating the show he was able to insist on more control over his creation. The Kuzuis can use characters from the original movie, but nothing Joss created just for the show. At least not without his permission, compensation and, I’m sure, involvement.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:25 am
This seems like a preposterously bad idea! The only think I can think is, the interest in a BUFFY feature film hasn’t been all that strong outside of the Whedon fanboys and fangirls–what if this leak is a gambit to motivate them and get some buzz going?
May 26th, 2009 at 2:24 am
I don’t think most potential moviegoers would care that Joss is gone. And I am not sure that Joss has many Buffy tales left or that he really wants to do a movie.
But…
1) It’s hard to imagine that anyone but Joss in charge.
2) It is far too soon for a reboot.
3) We all recall how rotten the original film was.
4) This might be a rare instance where the hardcore fans really don’t come out. The Whedon faithful are, as noted, very faithful indeed, and could be very loud about it.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:58 am
Leaving out Angel and Spike is fair enough (save ‘em for the sequel), But Buffy needs Xander, Willow and Giles, since that’s the core of Buffy. Dawn being uincluded would be nice too.
On the upside, at least a reboot means we won’t have to put up with bitch Buffy from the last two seasons.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:00 am
^included. Damn typos
May 26th, 2009 at 4:01 am
there’s no real reason for any buffy fan to go see this movie…
i mean, without the supporting cast, and the history, and without Whedon, this is just another teenage girl killing vampires in suburbia, who just happens to also be called Buffy. I hope they enjoy their cashgrab…
May 26th, 2009 at 4:10 am
I thought the original movie was so uninteresting that it took me until the fourth season to watch the series (after much persuasion from my brother.) Loved the series. Can’t imagine them doing anything to get me to watch a remake.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:15 am
I would prefer a Buffy movie by Joss, with a majoritiy of the cast from the tv show. And if the original movie is any indication, the Kuzuis aren’t really good at creating intelligent entertainment out of Joss’ ideas.
But that doesn’t mean the new movie HAS TO suck. Yes, Whedon is a fantastic writer, but he’s not the only good writer in Hollywood. And while there have been bad (and unnecessary) remakes, every now and then we’ll get a Scarface, Departed or a Battlestar Galactica.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that a Whedonless Buffy movie WILL be good. I’m just saying that it has the POTENTIAL to be good.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:49 am
This can’t end well.
The original movie managed to take an entertaining script and turn it into something physically painful to watch.
And if they’re “leaking” news like this hoping the fans will being a Browncoat style buzz campaign, the lack of Whedon’s involvement and/or approval is not the way to do it.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:52 am
This is beyond stupid. The failure of the original movie was wiped out by the success of the TV series and continuing comic book series.
This is a case of people glomming onto a successful franchise trying to squeeze out money from a potentially stupid movie going crowd too young to remember that they screwed it up the first time they tried a movie.
No Whedon, No SMG, No ME
May 26th, 2009 at 5:31 am
I’d imagine they’re gonna heap on cheesy love triangles and such to emulate “Twilight” and all the other vampire romance crap that’s been so popular recently.
To echo everyone else, this can’t end well. Buffy IS Whedon.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Blasphemy.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Horrible idea and one with no built-in audience. People who remember the movie won’t go, because the movie was mediocre; and people who loved the series won’t go, because this will be stripping it of damn near everything that made it great.
Would not go, no matter who was “attached.”
Rob
May 26th, 2009 at 6:29 am
This does make me curious as to who owns the rights to the TV show Buffy and cast. Does Wheadon share them with Kuzui and Kuzui or does he hold them on his own?
This will be interesting to see. Obviously for fans of the show, the Buffy-verse is pretty fixed and trying to make a movie without the characters (much less the actors) they have come to love is a fool’s game. I’m sure the producers are counting on the fact that a few years has passed since the series and so the general public is ready for a remake a la Star Trek (whose success is I’m sure the driving force here). I think the difference would be that the producers of Star Trek brought in Nimoy to vouch for the movie – can’t see how Kuzui and Kuzui will be able to do that.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Wow, after the TV show and the comic series along with the amount of time passed since the first movie, I figured Joss had his movie rights back. This news boggles my mind. After the success of the show and the comics it seems insane to want to try and go in a direction most of the Buffy fans recognize and expect. I’m sure this news is just to gain early buzz and that Joss will be attached if this movie moves forward.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:25 am
“This does make me curious as to who owns the rights to the TV show Buffy and cast.”
If I had to guess… Kuzui has rights to the original movie script, but has no claims to the television series. So she could use Buffy, Pike, Merrick, Lothos or Amilyn but not Giles, Xander, Willow or the others.
In fact, I don’t recall the TV series referring to any characters from the movie aside from Buffy herself. The comic, however, did “remake” the movie to Joss’ intention, and brought back Pike in at least one story arc.
-J
May 26th, 2009 at 7:33 am
There’s an obvious problem with making a Buffy movie without Whedon’s involvement: he may not have the movie rights, but he does have the rights to virtually any other form of tie-in, spin-off or merchandise that you might want to produce. So without him on side, you’re going to miss out on a lot of the revenue that you’d normally expect to get from a mainstream Hollywood action film.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:38 am
ok, people seem not to remember that the initial movie and story didn’t have Xander, Willow, Angel, Spike, etc.
Those were characters who Joss introduced for the TV show, which was based (loosely) on the movie.
This is a reboot (basically) of the movie that came out first. But, when everyone thinks of Buffy, they initially think of Joss and the TV series.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:46 am
The Kuzuis directing another Buffy movie? Not like the original movie sucked!
May 26th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Fan alienation only leads to box-office failure.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I would imagine that the answer to “who owns the rights to the TV series” is “Fox,” though Whedon may have some sort of veto power over licensing of aspects of it. It’s just as likely, though, that the stuff like S8 that has come out with Whedon’s active support is stuff where the licensee was smart enough to seek Whedon out.
The Kuzui’s were listed as producers on the TV series, and so one assumes they saw some revenue for it, though I believe I read at one point that they had no actual creative input on it.
In any case, if this goes through, it will go down as one of the great bad ideas of the movie industry. Let’s reboot something with an avid and vocal fanbase in a way that is guaranteed to piss off the entire fanbase! Particularly something that has shown itself to have poor legs outside of its avid fanbase.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:01 am
To quote Shia LeBouf, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.”
May 26th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Interesting fact that the article fails to mention: in addition to developing and directing the Buffy film, Fran Rabel Kuzui was a producer on the television incarnation of Buffy (and Angel).
I don’t know if Kuzai played a significant role with the television series or was merely a figurehead, but Kuzai clearly had a connection to the property (and, therefore, to Whedon) beyond the original film.
So it seems doubly odd that she’s planning to resurrect Buffy without Whedon’s input — alienating his followers, rather than cultivating their support. Feels sort of like a palace coup — wresting control just as the property seems ripe for revival (given the Buffy comics series, the proliferation of vampire properties and the successful reboot of Star Trek).
Was there bad blood between the two during the production of the series?
May 26th, 2009 at 8:17 am
i hope its more like the original movie and not that crappy tv show…i mean the show wasn’t even funny
May 26th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Well, alienating the fans is not in and of itself a problem. I mean, Battlestar Galactica had a large swath of fans alienated when it aired. Star Trek was actively indifferent to its fans. The Batman fans were prepared to *hate* the first Burton Batman movie, and the first Singer X-Men movie was controversial too. And plenty of Star Wars people were outraged over all of the prequels.
Fans can be alienated. The question is what sorts of fans they are, and what sort of text you’re working from.
I think Buffy is a particularly toxic set, because it is new enough that it has a large active fanbase, and cult enough that it has shown not to have that much crossover appeal. So you need the fans more than you sometimes do, and the fans do not currently feel at all ignored or mistreated, so it’s not as though they’ll swallow just anything. (This is another factor – desperate fans accept reboots more readily.)
May 26th, 2009 at 8:33 am
has it been forty years already? wow time flies from when a tv show ends and we get a remake. wait hang on…buffy ended 6 years ago!
can you say Direct to DVD! cos thats where its heading!
May 26th, 2009 at 8:43 am
I’ve never acted in all my life like a fanboy. That stops here today. This is the most RIDICULOUS idea ever and I for one will never, ever support it if they go ahead with it without Joss Whedon’s input/involvement.
The show (let alone the comics) are still so new that this is definitely alienate all the fans – like me. No way. No way in hell.
RADIATE!
May 26th, 2009 at 8:52 am
*Woof!* *Woof!* What’s that, Lassie? *Woof! Woof!* You smell an Epic Fail? Me, too.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:12 am
This would be outrageously funny if the very concept didn’t hurt my head so much. Remaking Buffy without any of the elements that made the fans love it would be like remaking baseball without a bat.
And for the record: loved BSG, and thought the new Star Trek film was enormous fun. Remakes in of themselves can be fine, worthy entertainment. But consider this: the beloved version of Buffy WAS the reboot. This would be Van Helsing.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:19 am
The Kuzais were on the credits of the Buffy TV series mostly because their original contract with Whedon demanded it. Because of that contract, they have partial ownership to the CONCEPT of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as the trademarked name – but ONLY to the parts of the franchise that they had direct control over (in other words, just the movie). That is the only reason they were listed as “executive producers” to the TV series. All they really did was to collect a check for seven seasons–they had zero input into the series. Which means they do not have any rights to any of the characters and concepts created in it. Which makes sense, given the way this proposal seems to be shaping.
The Kuzais are just trying to leech off of someone elses success. They just managed to luck out in that a concept they themselves nearly ruined found a way to become a success as soon as it was taken out of their hands.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I think a Buffy reboot with a new cast and creator is not a terrible idea, but not now. I think the TV show cast is too old for their roles by now, and a number of them (especially David Boreanaz) probably wouldn’t be that interested. And I would guess that Whedon has said all he had to say about a sixteen year-old Buffy, so if a reboot were to take place, a different writer might be the way to go. But I think the right time for that might be ten years from now, not today.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I won’t dwell on the foregone conclusion that this would suck, but let me address the rights question.
20th Century Fox is a movie studio, a completely separate corporate (legal) entity than the TV broadcasting company of Fox Broadcasting Company. Both are owned by News Corp Ltd but rights do not jump from company to company (creative, distributive, and broadcast – never mind DVD, video game, etc. which are whole nuther beasts) even if they are owned by the same umbrella company. New contracts have to be drawn up to do that and ALL in invested parties must sign up.
The characters in the Buffy movie are separate entities from the ones in the TV show. Buffy Summers on the big screen is legally considered a different character than the one on TV (just like the characters from Terminator). Whoever owns the rights to movie Buffy can continue onward in movies only without buyin from the TV creators; same hold true for the owners of TV Buffy.
The two cannot crossover and charactes that are unique to both cannot jump ship unless contracts are drawn up that allow it. Joss can’t make his own Buffy movie based on the TV show and these #@!#%$ can’t make a TV show based on the movie Buffy (or vice versa). It is possible contracts can be drawn up to make these point moot but I seriously doubt Joss would do that.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:44 am
What a load of s***
Buffy was a great show, just let it rest. Whedon is doing nicely with the comic franchises of his shows. And it should stay that way.
If he is not involved then there shouldn’t be another film…..especially by the kuzais.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:51 am
No. No. No. No.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:52 am
The difference between Buffy and Star Trek was that Star Trek was run into the ground before the reboot. After Enterprise, Voyager, and Nemesis even the most die hard Trek fans were ready for a reboot. There aren’t as many Buffy that feel the same way. Some were disgruntled after season 5 but not enough to champion the idea of a reboot.
The other big difference is that the creator of Star Trek has passed away. If he is no longer with us to give his thumbs up or thumbs down to the reboot. If Roddenberry were alive and didn’t endorse the remake, I don’t think the new Star Trek would have gotten the ticket sales that it did. Joss is alive a well. If he doesn’t at least say “I’ll reserve judgment until I see it” the TV fans will not go.
Finally a lot of the Twilight fans are now discovering Buffy TV series on DVD,Itunes, and Hulu. By the time the remake of Buffy comes out, the Twilight fans might be Joss fans. If that happens this remake will fail at the box office.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:10 am
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May 26th, 2009 at 10:13 am
God the director for the first film was why the movie sucked so much. She ruined the script, picked the worse actress for Buffy and the list goes on.
I hate this idea.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:34 am
While you’re at it, get McG to direct. You’ll make millions.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Look, I love the movie. But I love it in the same way I love Friday the Thirteenth part whatever and Dragonball. It was not a good movie. It was a fun, cheesy piece of crap. I’ll probably go see the new movie, but I don’t expect it to be any good.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:47 am
This could easily work and this is how http://www.comicbycomic.com/2009/05/whedon-less-buffy.html
No, really. This is the best idea ever.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Hey, why don’t they go one step further and make the movie without the Buffy character? And without any vampires? And call it something else?
May 26th, 2009 at 10:55 am
To be fair, by most accounts Donald Sutherland was the biggest problem with the movie.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Oh, HELL no. No. Freaking. Way.
@metamorphic: Nice!
May 26th, 2009 at 11:06 am
I’m not a huge buffy fan, but I’ve seen a good bit of the show and Angel too. I enjoy it. I have never seen the movie, but that’s only because I’ve never heard anything other than that it’s an awful disaster of a movie. That being said, I hope, for the sake of the property name and the fans of the show and comics, that they decide NOT to make this movie. There is one way I would accept this movie with open arms, and it is the following.
Do not reboot the movie property. Make a sequel. Get the original cast back together, as much as you can, and make a sequel to the ’92 movie. Kristy Swanson can be the all-grown-up Buffy Summers, a forty-something kick-a$$ and take names vampire-slayer (who could maybe even have just reached the peak of her powers, if you wanted to go that way). At this point, it would be a fairly star-studded cast, I think. Like I said, I’ve never seen the original, but I just looked at the imdb page, and it’s really a pretty impressive cast, these days. It would be especially awesome, and a big draw from an untapped potential fan-base, to bring in Keifer Sutherland to replace his dad as the new watcher. He could even actually be the son of the previous watcher! I would actually love to see this movie, if it got made. It would also make me go back and watch the old 90s one finally, while I almost certainly wouldn’t do that if they just rebooted the property.
Plus, isn’t a reboot redundant? Wouldn’t a reboot give us the THIRD beginning story of Buffy? I don’t think we need that.
You know what I want? I want Whedon to bypass the legalities of character use in movie properties by getting down to business on a “Fray” movie that builds off of the mythos of the show. That’s what I really want to see.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:20 am
This is the crappiest of crappiest, it smells like crap. I hope they don’t go ahead with this…this is just a prime example of Hollywood idiocy.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:57 am
The film was so bad that I never wanted to look at the TV series. I only watched it after Buffy and Angel were cancelled. It is obvious that they have no rights to the TV characters. I’ll boycott that movie like I guess many fans will. Good luck with them on trying to relaunch a franchise without the core fans. I hope they lose a lot of money and have to sell their rights to the movie to settle their debt.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
The show wasn’t really a true reboot. Maybe you could call it a soft reboot, picking up and starting over in a new town after the end of the previous movie, but almost never referencing it directly. About the biggest mentions I remember are all the references to Buffy having burned down her previous school.
And oh yeah — bad idea, this remake. Baaaad.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
But… but… WHY?!?!
May 26th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
What happened to original ideas? I mean, really, are we at a point where all the cool books been adapted and there’s truly nothing left to adapt? Wow! When did Human Culture become this lame?
May 26th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Let them do it. It will just be another piece of garbage like the many “remakes” of old movies/series that hollywood has been making. It will cost them dollars and do bad on the box offices, ban on dvd sales, and end up really soon free on tv with low ratings.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
bad on dvd sales, not ban..lol.sorry typo.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Will it suck? Who knows? Is it a bad idea? Not at all.
First of all, the idea that Buffy fans won’t have anything to do with it is probably perfectly okay to the filmmakers because (as much as the Whedon army is loathe to admit it) Buffy fans are a relatively small clique who don’t nearly comprise a large enough number to carry a feature film in and of themselves. Hell, they were barely enough to keep the TV show on the air. (And, as a matter of simple fact, had the show aired anywhere other than WB/UPN, it’ viewer numbers would have gotten it canceled before it ever saw year 3).
Much like the recent Star Trek film (which has been monstrously successful–and in all likelihood the impetus for the Buffy revival) the whole point of this reboot will be to remake the franchise for a new generation of (mostly younger) fans, not cater slavishly to the old fans who are obsessively steeped in the nostalgic detail of what’s gone before (but, at the same time, leaving the door open for any of them who want to come along for the ride).
Could it fail? Sure, but then so could everything. That being said, the reasoning behind the decision, for a business standpoint (and never forget, it is a business) is actually pretty sound.
Really, the only part that sounds like a bad idea is putting it in the hands of the original film’s director because, y’know, the original film sucked.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Here is the irony of people making the Star Trek Reboot anology. Part of the reason the new Star Trek is so sucssesful is because Abrams made it very Whedonesque. Seriosly. The way the new Trek cast acts looks like they would fit right in on a Joss show.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
@kalorama- Everything you said would be accurate except for the comparison to Star Trek. Star Trek is a generation spanning franchise with instant name recognition to a large number of people and a smaller niche of rabid fans. And even the casual sci-fi fan would regard Trek as a good bet for entertainment. Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a film has a terrible reputation and is in large part responsible for the show’s audience being as small as you’ve stated. The show spawned a successful spin-off and numerous merchandising licenses, from toys to video games to comics.
And when it comes down to it, the new Star Trek just brought the franchise back to prominence, but when adjusted for inflation, is tracking comparably to the first movie. Assuming that Buffy follows the same model, it hits the ceiling at the same numbers as the show’s peak, probably lower because you didn’t have to pay ten bucks to watch the show.
Buffy is a niche property that is successful within its niche, it doesn’t have the mainstream appeal that Star Trek does. Star Trek is like Batman or Superman, even if you’re not a regular fan of the original property, you know who they are and what they’re about. Buffy is like Manhunter, to continue the DC analogy. A great series with loyal fans, but it’s not going to break any sales records.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Wow…it’s always been a common fact that Hollywood has been generally creatively bankrupt for the past decade, but this really takes the cake. Usually they wait a couple of decades before remaking a movie, but since the talk of a remake of the first Crow movie, this really takes the cake. Can’t wait for the remake of the 1st Sin City movie!
May 26th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
The movie had a campy charm that a remake wont be able to duplicate.
Not incuding Whedon will alienate many of the fans of the series.
This movie smells of epic fail.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Blasphemy.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
If there’s no Joss, it just ain’t Buffy
May 26th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
yeahbuhwha? worst idea ever! hey, let’s remove the one element that actually WORKED in the original film and move forward with the director who fucked it up in the first place! brilliant, that. :p
May 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Bad move, financial failure. Peace.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
it will never happen.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
It’s kinda funny how a movie concept about vampires is being stolen and destroyed by 2 creative vampires. I vote Joss and SMG slay them, now that i would pay to see.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Bloodmage@
I wasn’t comparing Buffy to Star Wars in terms of audience size and popularity, so your pointing out the differences between the two in that respect has no real bearing on my argument.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Stupid idea.I wish joss whedon would make a Buffy/Angel movie that ends both shows.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
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May 26th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Buffy without Joss to me is like a yin without a yang. I would consider seeing this project IF the supporting characters were included. Angel, Spike, Willow, and Xander gave the story more ‘oomph’ and definitely increased the entertainment. When you have a show where people can focus on several different complex characters, it would be preposterous to create a movie without them.
I would much rather follow the comics than see a movie that Joss Whedon isn’t involved in.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
I like Pike.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Alright, so I’ve spent the last few minths watching Buff/Angel for the first time, after getting interested in Whedon through Dollhouse. I’va also read the guy’s comics, and I have to say…
This is a terrible idea. The show had actors with good chemistry and a sharp wit, and never took itself so seriously it lost it’s spark. With the grim’n'gritty trend in today’s movies, this would likely feature a hundred meaningless deaths and bore ordinary moviegoers to tears.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:56 am
@kalorama-
No, I get what you were saying, but my point still stands. If you’re looking to reboot a franchise, particularly one that’s still warm like Buffy, you’re not going to surpass the original’s numbers very easily. Star Trek’s success now is comparable to the success of the first movie. It hasn’t surpassed it, and its success was largely dependent on the nostalgia factor for casual viewers and rabid devotion from the core fanbase. Buffy will have neither of those things, and in fact will probably have to deal with a hostile core fanbase.
It’s not a great business move, unless it goes straight to DVD or SciFi Channel or something.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Nay. I will not go.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
There’s no Buffy without Whedon. It’s really that simple. As someone said, this is a said attempt to capitalize on mediocre movies like Twilight.
What a shock. I thought he held the rights to his own character.
May 28th, 2009 at 5:18 am
Fine, I’ll say it:
“When did Human Culture become this lame?”
Are you seriously equating Hollywood movies with all human culture?
Good god, man.
August 5th, 2010 at 2:37 am
In theory I’d like to write like this too – taking time and real effort to make a good article… but what can I say… I procrastinate alot and never seem to get something done.