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https://deadline.com/2018/07/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-series-reboot-in-works-black-lead-monica-owusu-breen-joss-whedon-1202430592/
1. No network and no airdate means I'll believe it when I see it. We've been here before, people.
2. So much for Joss moving on to new things, I guess.
3. If it does to the comics what JJ Abrams did to the Star Wars EU, I'll be over here in the corner practicing my best smirk.
4. It's a different show. There are plenty of new shows I don't watch, and there's plenty of Buffy fanfic I don't read. There's some I do. If it's good, it's good. If not, there's no reason to watch.
5. I kinda like the idea of a new generation (not that Monica Owusu-Breen is completely new to the business or anything) getting to do their take on Buffy. That's part of the point of the "Chosen" spell, after all. I'm sure there were horror fans in the 50s grumbling that my Dracula is Bela Lugosi, who's this British twerp? That said, SMG's are some might big tiny shoes to fill, and I don't envy the actress who gets the job.
Anyway, I'm halfway tempted to do something with this old sketch for a Buffy reboot that I wrote one of the other many, many times this was discussed.
1. No network and no airdate means I'll believe it when I see it. We've been here before, people.
2. So much for Joss moving on to new things, I guess.
3. If it does to the comics what JJ Abrams did to the Star Wars EU, I'll be over here in the corner practicing my best smirk.
4. It's a different show. There are plenty of new shows I don't watch, and there's plenty of Buffy fanfic I don't read. There's some I do. If it's good, it's good. If not, there's no reason to watch.
5. I kinda like the idea of a new generation (not that Monica Owusu-Breen is completely new to the business or anything) getting to do their take on Buffy. That's part of the point of the "Chosen" spell, after all. I'm sure there were horror fans in the 50s grumbling that my Dracula is Bela Lugosi, who's this British twerp? That said, SMG's are some might big tiny shoes to fill, and I don't envy the actress who gets the job.
Anyway, I'm halfway tempted to do something with this old sketch for a Buffy reboot that I wrote one of the other many, many times this was discussed.
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open_on_sunday celebrates its 400th challenge with the prompt "Open and/or Sunday" this week, so get on over and take part!Here's one that struck me. I have no idea why.
Re-Make
Post-series
It's two years before they open Nikki Wood's case again and get out the shadowcasters. Theres big evil a-brewin' and they're fresh out of ideas. After looking in the box for a few seconds, Buffy clears her throat.
"Uh, Andrew, something you want to tell us...?"
"No...? OK, I lost the original when we moved to Rome, so I made this one instead. I think it's pretty faithful to the original, don't you think?"
Vi cocks her head and looks closer at the crude cardboard cut-outs. "Why is that vamp glittering?"
"See, I had to make it relevant to today..."
Script for the new Buffy movie!
May. 26th, 2009 07:09 pmI suppose everyone has heard by now about the Kuzui's renewed attempts to "reboot" the Buffy franchise as a "darker, event-sized movie that would, of course, have franchise potential", with no involvement (so far) from Joss or any of the original actors - indeed, explicitly without any of the previous characters except possibly Buffy herself.
Obviously, like any good fan who hadn't had his morning coffee yet, my initial reaction was pretty much "RAAAAAAGE! How DARE they? They (allegedly) fucked up the original Buffy movie, they got paid for every single Buffyverse episode without ever setting foot on set, and now they want to redo the whole thing without Joss? Reboot this, this right here!"
Then I went "...Hang on." I mean, we're all in fanfic land here. Reboot things is what we do all the time - not to mention that as an avowed fan of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I can't really be sure that it's going to be awful (well, apart from the involvement of the Kuzuis, that is). And come to think of it, there is a spot in canon which opens up a possibility for a completely different - and dark - take on Buffy. (Now, when the article talks about "darker" I'm assuming they just mean more sex and more violence, but let's ignore that.)
I'm talking, of course, of "Normal Again." Or rather its backstory. And the more I thought about it, the more I had to write it down. So given that the odds of the Kuzui movie getting made are probably slim to non-existant, I might as well post my take on how I would kick off a Buffy reboot. In script format, because that's how it came out. It's not very likely to ever continue, but here's the opening scene. ~1100 words.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: A NEW HOPE BEGINNING FLAME SOMETHINGOROTHER
Teaser
( Script script script )
But that was just a bunch of imaginary notes I played... I'm not saying it'd be a good thing, but you never know. Plus, well, if the Kuzuis have the rights to the character it'd be - say it with me - canon and that can't be a bad thing, right? ;-)
Obviously, like any good fan who hadn't had his morning coffee yet, my initial reaction was pretty much "RAAAAAAGE! How DARE they? They (allegedly) fucked up the original Buffy movie, they got paid for every single Buffyverse episode without ever setting foot on set, and now they want to redo the whole thing without Joss? Reboot this, this right here!"
Then I went "...Hang on." I mean, we're all in fanfic land here. Reboot things is what we do all the time - not to mention that as an avowed fan of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I can't really be sure that it's going to be awful (well, apart from the involvement of the Kuzuis, that is). And come to think of it, there is a spot in canon which opens up a possibility for a completely different - and dark - take on Buffy. (Now, when the article talks about "darker" I'm assuming they just mean more sex and more violence, but let's ignore that.)
I'm talking, of course, of "Normal Again." Or rather its backstory. And the more I thought about it, the more I had to write it down. So given that the odds of the Kuzui movie getting made are probably slim to non-existant, I might as well post my take on how I would kick off a Buffy reboot. In script format, because that's how it came out. It's not very likely to ever continue, but here's the opening scene. ~1100 words.
Teaser
( Script script script )
But that was just a bunch of imaginary notes I played... I'm not saying it'd be a good thing, but you never know. Plus, well, if the Kuzuis have the rights to the character it'd be - say it with me - canon and that can't be a bad thing, right? ;-)