Posted on 07/20/2018 5:37:37 PM PDT by SMGFan
The hellmouth is opening again. 20th Century Fox has confirmed that a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot is being developed. Original creator Joss Whedon is working with Monica Owusu-Breen (“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) on a brand new story.
This “Buffy” won’t be a continuation of the original series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, but will feature a brand-new Buffy, who will be African-American. There’s no network attached as of yet.
Besides Whedon, original executive producers Gail Berman, Fran Kazui and Kaz Kazui are also behind the revival (and Berman’s The Jackal Group partner Joe Earley is also attached). Fox 21 TV Studios is expected to pitch the new show to cable and streaming outlets this summer.
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IDK. Being black isn’t edgy enough anymore. Maybe it will be a gender confused African American.
IIRC, Kendra was an Indian, Malaysian, or Indonesian...Not black...
Sounds like another 24 Legacy.
Trans woman would be good
So much lack of originality. Just the same stories over and over again. TV has definitely become a wasteland of sub-par entertainment.
Just remember when the ‘Bread and Circuses’ ran out for the Romans, The Empire collapsed soon thereafter. And we are headed the same way...
Hollywood is till out of original ideas.
Kendra was Jamaican. If the info I found was accurate.
Sports, local news, and old movies...That’s it for me...
There was also another black slayer in season 7 when they had had several slayers at once.
I was a big fan of Buffy...collected all the season on dvd as well as the spin off Angel.
I think Joss Whedon is trying to relive his glory days when he was in his prime with a number one show and a busy casting couch. I don’t think things have been going to well for him since his wife called him out for being a pervert.
Mr. niteowl77
I guess its too much to ask Holyweird to respect minorities enough to give them their own franchises rather than slap them in already established ones out of cowardice and a desire to virtue signal.
If Whedon was smart, he'd make Buffy a Latino Democratic Socialist. They're the future.
Har! Red Green!
Josh is a personal liberty wannabe who backs leftist morons in real life.
Libertarian is the only way to describe whedon’s Firefly. a great space opera.
Buffkeena? Buferina? Beauffi? Buphee?
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