Hulu has opted to not proceed with its Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, starring and government produced by Sarah Michelle Gellar. She broke the information to followers on Instagram Saturday morning.
The information comes a yr after the streamer ordered a pilot for the mission, tentatively titled Buffy: New Sunnydale, with Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, a self-professed lifelong Buffy fan, directing from a script written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (Poker Face).
The choice follows weeks of hypothesis in regards to the destiny of the pilot. Sources described it as “not perfect,” noting the Zhao’s sensibility could not have been the right match for the reboot. Zhao is now using a wave of important popularity of her newest film, Hamnet, which has eight Oscar nominations.
There had been speak about remodeling the pilot as lately as earlier this week. In the top, Hulu opted to not proceed with it however stays excessive on the Buffy IP and plans to regroup and mull a potential new incarnation of the beloved franchise.
I hear Gellar was notified Friday evening of the choice, which got here as a shock to her. She had been in Austin, TX for the SXSW premiere of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which came about Friday afternoon. Doing press for her new film on the pageant, Gellar spoke of her excitement in regards to the Buffy reboot, talking of Zhao’s “passion, and her reasoning for wanting to do it, and why now, and why it is necessary” that satisfied her to lastly conform to revisit her signature character.
In her IG video, the actress stated that she was “really sad” to share the information of the mission’s demise together with her followers.
“I want to thank Chloé Zhao because I never thought I would find myself back in Buffy’s stylish yet affordable boots. And thanks to Chloé, I was reminded how much I love her and how much she means, not only to me, but to all of you,” Gellar stated within the video, which you’ll watch under. “This doesn’t change any of that, and I promise if the apocalypse actually comes… you can still beep me.”
At Disney, Zhao beforehand directed one other style mission primarily based on well-known IP, Marvel’s Eternals, which underperformed each with critics and within the boxoffice.
Ryan Kiera Armstrong landed the lead reverse Gellar within the Buffy pilot, enjoying the brand new slayer within the untitled Buffyverse mission, with Gellar reprising her signature position as Buffy Summers. The collection common solid additionally included Faly Rakotohavana, Ava Jean, Sarah Bock, Daniel Di Tomasso and Jack Cutmore-Scott, with Chase Sui Wonders as a visitor star. The reboot was produced by twentieth Television and Searchlight TV.
