From showcasing the gradual shift toward the technological golden age (the show is credited with inventing the phrase “Google it”) to showcasing the height of new millennium fashion through the sartorially supreme protagonist – altering what is widely considered a perfect show with a satisfying ending runs the risk of retroactively ruining it for superfans like myself for the sake of a money grab.
9 Stage/Fright at Wyndham’s Theatre: part smart reinvention and part lazy cash-in] Indeed, the litany of beloved original cast members who won’t be able to join the project alongside SMG is so sizeable that any attempt to re-capture the lighting in a bottle that was the original Buffy series is futile.
Perhaps most importantly, the original show’s creator, writer and producer Joss Whedon – once hailed as a paragon of Hollywood feminism – has come under fire in the last few years for misogynistic behaviour and for creating a toxic environment on the show during its six-year run.
Fran Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui will executive produce via Suite B and Dolly Parton will do so via her production company Sandollar (bar Gellar, all of the aforementioned were EPs on the original show).
Part of the joy in watching/ re-watching the show is enduring the horrifyingly bad special effects (cutting-edge at the time), obvious cuts to wig-wearing stunt doubles, and the hilariously obvious SFX vampire prosthetics.
