‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Reboot Showrunner Hints That the Show is a Sequel
Monica Owusu-Breen, the showrunner of the reboot of Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has recently shared a significant hint suggesting that the series is a continuation of the show with another Vampire Slayer named Buffy.
When the show was first announced, the term “reboot” was released through the trades, noting that this version of Buffy would be an African-American woman. So, naturally, the internet freaked out at the thought of a show about Buffy Summers without Sarah Michelle Gellar and the rest (which has happened before with the proposed film remake – though nothing thankfully came of it), especially after the occasional rumblings that a full-scale revival could happen. And, to the internet’s surprise, the showrunner agreed before essentially confirming that this show’s lead character isn’t a new version of Buffy Summers:
— monicaowusubreen (@monicabreen) July 26, 2018
The final episode of the original series ended on a note of showing every potential Slayer becoming a Slayer as a result of ritual completed just before the town of Sunnydale was completely destroyed. The comics by Dark Horse have explored the implications of the world having hundreds of Slayers at once and the show could easily pick up from there. 20 years have passed, and whispers of Buffy’s exploits have likely reached sympathetic ears, so who’s to say that someone inspired by what she has done couldn’t have named their child after the heroine of the original series?
Buffy Summers is irreplaceable to Owusu-Breen, so that indicates a willingness to play around with a different character in the setting, decades after the show ended with room for new stories in a vastly-different cultural landscape than the late 1990s and early 2000s. If this is the case, then the show could easily have room for tons of cameos from the original series, including the original Slayer herself. Let’s hope that we can see the Scooby Gang reappear in this new Slayer’s story.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in development for an as-of-yet undecided channel.
Grant Davis is a freelance writer who has covered entertainment news for more than seven years. His articles have frequently appeared in Star Wars News Net as well as as other entertainment-related websites. As someone who grew up on Star Wars and comic book movies, he’s completely thrilled with the current era of genre entertainment.
