Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot with original cast member reportedly in the works
Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot with original cast member reportedly in the works
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Original show ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. A Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is reportedly in the works, with Sarah Michelle Gellar set to return in the titular role, over two decades after the original series ended. Buffy fan Chloé Zhao, who won the Oscar for best director in 2020 for Nomadland, is set to direct. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which began airing in 1997, follows Buffy Summers, the newest “slayer” fated to battle supernatural creatures such as vampires.
![[Most of the original cast likely to return for reboot]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/02/04/5/20/GettyImages-748964.jpg)
According to reports from multiple US news outlets, the reboot is nearing a pilot order at Hulu and Gellar is set to reprise her role as Buffy. She will only feature as a recurring character rather than a main one, though, with the new series focusing on a new slayer. Most of the rest of the original cast is likely to return as well, Deadline reported. The reboot is set to be scripted by Poker Face writers Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.
![[Sarah Michelle Gellar said in December 2024 she was open to a Buffy reboot]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/12/20/09/newFile-8.jpg)
In 2023, she told SFX Magazine: “I am very proud of the show that we created, and [a revival] doesn’t need to be done. We wrapped that up. I am all for them continuing the story, because there’s the story of female empowerment … [but] the metaphors of Buffy were the horrors of adolescence. I think I look young but I am not an adolescent.”. “It’s funny, I always used to say no because it’s in its bubble and it’s so perfect. But watching Sex and the City and seeing Dexter, and realizing there are ways to do it, definitely does get your mind thinking, ‘Well, maybe,’” she said on The Drew Barrymore Show, while discussing her role on Dexter prequel Dexter: Original Sin.
When co-star Christian Slater suggested a reboot wouldn’t necessarily have to be a prequel, Gellar agreed. “No, it could be anything,” she said. “It’s a universe. And it makes you realize that in this world, we need those heroes, I think, more so than ever.”. The Deadline report said that negotiations for the reboot with Gellar had begun when these comments were made and they were now in their “final stages”.
