Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reboot in the Works, With Black Lead Actress - WE WUZ SLAYERS

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https://tvline.com/2018/07/20/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot-black-lead-actress-joss-whedon/

Buffy Summers is heading back to Sunnydale… but she might look a little different than you remember.

A reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in development, with a black actress eyed to play the title role, our sister site Deadline is reporting. Original creator Joss Whedon is on board as an executive producer, with Monica Owusu-Breen (Midnight, Texas) serving as writer and showrunner of the reboot. (Owusu-Breen previously wrote for ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., where Whedon is an EP as well.) The reboot doesn’t have a network home yet, but it’s said to be “contemporary, building on the mythology of the original.”

The original Buffy, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the titular slayer, debuted in 1997 on The WB and ran for seven seasons, jumping to UPN for its final two seasons. It’s since become a cultural touchstone and cult favorite among TV fans.

If it makes it to air, the new-look Buffy would be just the latest WB series to return to TV: Charmed and Roswell are both being resurrected by The CW next season.
 

Tootsie Bear

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To be honest I was a never a fan of Buffy, never understood cult followings for T.V shows that most people have forgotten. Which is why I'm amazed they're remaking it. Hasn't Hollywood learned from the horrible remakes of movies like Nightmare on Elm Street. Just because the franchises might be popular online doesn't mean they'll be successful with the general public or casual fans.
 

Dysnomia

Is Reimu gonna have to smack a bitch?
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Goddammit just let a good show stay dead and have a legacy that isn't buttfucked by "woke" shit.

Charmed and Roswell will probably end up just as woke. They'll likely throw a troon in there or something. They can put a troon amongst the Charmed sisters. I can see them trying that.

Why do they need to resurrect this stuff for new audiences? Why not just add to the universe with a new but related series occurring in the same universe? Something that's connected but doesn't require you seeing the whole older series to understand?

And what the hell kinda black girl is named Buffy?

Probably should rename her something like this:
 

Muttnik

To the stars!
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Buffy was special to me. Seeing them ruin it pisses me off to no end.

It doesn't even make sense for her to be black because the character itself is supposed to be the archetype of the ditzy blonde valley girl that usually gets killed off in every horror movie. I wouldn't have any problems with them adding a new side-lead that happens to be black but for the character itself, it doesn't make any sense.
 

Jub-Jub

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I'll only watch this if Bluffy fights Blacula
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