Sarah Michelle Gellar Wants to ‘Bring Back Everyone Who Has Died’ on ‘Buffy’ for the Reboot

Sarah Michelle Gellar wants to bring backmost nan dormant for nan caller “Buffy” reboot series. Gellar, who reprises nan domiciled of Buffy Summers for nan Hulu pilot, said during nan Filming Italy Sardegna Festival that she is wished to person her chap alums return — moreover if their characters already died onscreen.

“Buffy nan Vampire Slayer” aired connected nan WB for 5 seasons from 1997 to 2001 earlier moving to UPN for 2 much seasons. The bid landed spinoff “Angel” from 1999 to 2004. Yet nan revival — which is still astatine nan aviator shape and hasn’t been greenlit to bid conscionable yet — will beryllium different successful reside from nan franchise predecessors.

“It will beryllium lighter than nan past fewer seasons of nan original,” Gellar said, arsenic translated by Vanity Fair. “We will effort to find a equilibrium betwixt caller and aged characters. My dream is to bring backmost everyone who has died, but abstraction will person to beryllium made for caller stories arsenic well.”

Those caller stories will center astir newcomer Ryan Kiera Armstrong’s character, described successful the casting announcement as an introverted high-school student who is simply a young Slayer. Armstrong’s co-leading characteristic is besides “more Willow than Buffy,” according to TVLine. The 15-year-old Armstrong besides starred successful nan Disney+ bid “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.”

The “Buffy nan Vampire Slayer” revival will proceed to beryllium a genre and assemblage “crossover” show, arsenic Gellar said. “One of nan astonishing aspects of ‘Buffy’ is that it’s ever been a crossover series,” Gellar added. “We’re trying to fig retired really to modernize nan themes of nan series, particularly what it intends to consciousness for illustration an outsider successful a world dominated by societal media. What we want to research are nan space-time boundaries that impact nine today.”

Gellar executive produces nan bid and agreed to return aft proceeding Oscar victor Chloé Zhao’s pitch for nan show. “Every transportation I heard was conscionable like, ‘Let’s conscionable do “Buffy” again,’” Gellar antecedently told Elite Daily of why she yet decided to work together to a revival. “Why? But nan passion that [Zhao] came to maine with, what she wanted to do pinch nan show and nan character, and why ‘Buffy’ is needed now — it was nan first clip wherever I thought, ‘OK, there’s a reason.’”

Gellar said that nan revival has been successful nan useful for 4 years. “We won’t do it unless it’s 100 percent correct and there’s 100 percent a reason,” she said. “The full constituent of an antihero is to beryllium a leader for nan group who don’t fresh successful nan box, nan group who aren’t for illustration everybody else. That’s who I want to show stories for.”

Original “Buffy” prima Alyson Hannigan has hinted that she mightiness return for nan reboot. Gellar besides confirmed that nan bid would pay tribute to precocious actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who played her younger sister Dawn Summers during Seasons 5 done 7. “We’ll beryllium capable to do something,” Gellar said. “We’ll do what’s appropriate.”

Zhao is directing nan pilot, pinch “Poker Face” scribes Nora and Lilla Zuckerman penning nan 20th Television and Searchlight TV series. “Buffy” creator and writer Joss Whedon has nary engagement successful nan reboot.