Actress-producer Sarah Michelle Gellar has confirmed via Instagram that Hulu has passed on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer legacy sequel series, New Sunnydale. The proposed series filmed a pilot last year with Gellar reprising her role as Buffy Summers and directed by Chloe Zhao.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired 144 episodes across 7 seasons from 1997 to 2003 and had a successful spin-off show, Angel. The show also spawned numerous spin-off novels and comic books. Gellar had always resisted attempts to revisit the show, but changed her mind after rewatching the show with her daughters during the COVID lockdown.
New Sunnydale was going to see the town of Sunnydale, destroyed in the original series finale, rebuilt in proximity to the Hellmouth, the old gateway of evil that caused most of the trouble in the original show. A new Slayer would be called in the form of Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew), with Buffy on hand as well. It was unclear if Buffy was going to act as a mentor to the younger Slayer or what the precise format would be, but Armstrong's character would still be in school and would have a network of friends, allies and frenemies similar to the original show.
Only Gellar was contracted to reprise her role from the original show, but if it had gone to series, there were plans to bring back other characters as well.
Possibly in the future a different pitch might have better luck at getting off the ground.
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