"There's a whole recipe for how to make a Buffy. Take one cup Sarah Connor from the first Terminator movie;
one cup Ripley; three tablespoons of the younger sister in Night of the Comet; a few sprigs of A Little
Princess (the book, not the movies); and a pinch of Jimmy Stewart for pain, because nobody does better pain.
Bake those up. Once it's cool, add a little Rosalind Russell from His Girl Friday. All of this must be in a
P.J.-Soles-in-Halloween crust. That's very important."
------ Joss Whedon
The first line spoken by Buffy in episode one, season one was: "I'm up, mom." In the pilot, her first line (after correcting the Principal about her name twice) was: "Principal Flutie, I'm not here to cause trouble." The last word spoken by Buffy in the last episode of the series was "Spike". (In response to a question by Giles as to what caused the giant crater.)
Buffy's birthday was celebrated each year (except for Season 7) in a mid-January episode. In the first-year birthday episode, Buffy's school records are displayed twice on a computer. In one view, we see that Buffy was born on 24 October 1980, and she is a sophomore. The second time we see the records, her birthday is 6 May 1979, and she is a senior. Clearly the records are in error. Joss Whedon asserted at one point that Buffy's birthday is 19 January 1981, but this is not borne out by other evidence.
Buffy's Birthday is January 22, 1981. (In 1999, her eighteenth birthday fell on a Friday. It is also known to
be on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. Hence it must be January 22). 
Spike, who is not supposed to breathe, smokes cigarettes. He is either a demon or a human with delusions of vampirehood. He is clearly not an illusion, as is evidenced by his trail of cigarette butts.
Vampires are non-corporeal entities who create the illusion of a material existence in the minds of those who perceive them. The primary evidence for this is their lack of a reflection. Their influence is on the mind, not the body. Wounds they inflict are psychomatic.
Whatever you believe will kill a vampire will do so, or more specifically will destroy the illusion it is projecting.
Vampires do feed on life energy which is symbolically referenced by the human mind as blood.
Were he being practical, Giles should have become Dawn's guardian after Buffy's mother died. This would have enabled Buffy to remain in college, and (for Giles) would have been a whole lot cheaper.
Buffy did indeed come back "wrong". The character was not at all the same in the last two seasons. No self-respecting slayer would work at McDonald's. Banging Spike was not totally out of character, but the not being able to find a job seems a little outrageous. Even Cordelia managed to find work when she had to.
Xander might be gay. He had only one entirely human girlfriend (Cordelia) and did not seem to overly enjoy that (also it is questionable whether they ever actually had sex). That would explain his response to Faith, with whom he did have sex (once). Anya was human when he was with her, but she was an ex-demon with probably some residual pheromones from being not-human.
How probable is it that Tara did not know the ritual necessary to resurrect Buffy? Yet she seems to be unaware of the deer-killing thing.
In Chinese lore, the undead hop like bunnies, and appear in
varying states of decay, depending on how long they were dead before returning to life. They fear their own reflection.
They are called jiang shi, and their hoppiness most likely derives from
the widespread practice in ancient China of transporting a corpse from his place of death to his hometown for burial.
China being a big place even then, that often involved a journey of many hundreds of kilometers.
The bodies would often be carried home by a friend or family member. To make carrying the corpse easier, it was wrapped tightly in a shroud.
Before embalming became common, catalepsy sometimes caused people to be buried when they were not really dead. If the body were tightly wrapped, and a cataleptic "came back to life", hopping would be their natural form of locomotion, at least until they could figure out how to get themselves free of the shroud.
Buffy never got to China, although Spike did. Chinese vampires are never discussed in BTVS.
In Season One Episode Three, Buffy tries out for cheerleader and ends up saving Amber Grove, another cheerleading hopeful, from a fiery death. According to the Buffy Wiki, Grove was played by an "unknown actress". I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Grove was played by stuntwoman Lisa Dempsey, who was known to have worked on this episode. Dempsey is 1.6m tall, has brown hair and blue eyes, and lists "partial burns" as one of her specialties.
Amber Tamblyn portrayed Dawn's best friend, Janice Penshaw. Penshaw is mentioned throughout Season Six, but she appears in only one episode (Season 6 Episode 6 which is the Halloween episode for 2001). In that episode, she and Dawn tell their mothers they spending the night at each other's homes and then sneak out to with a couple of boys who turn out to be vampires. Dawn gets her first kiss and Janice is bitten. They are both rescued; Penshaw by Giles, and Dawn by Buffy and Spike. In Season 6 Episode 12 Dawn says that Janice's sister is a lawyer.
Ginger Williams, who played the girl whose death brought the gypsy curse on Angel (Buffy Episode #34), appeared on RINGER 14 November as the receptionist for Siobhan's shrink.
Russian PM Vladimir Putin has renamed his new Bulgarian shepherd puppy Buffy, after a national contest to choose a new name for the dog. The Russians admit to no connection to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The name was chosen by a 5-year-old from Moscow, Dima Sokolov. Dima said the name was found on the internet with the help of his parents. The dog was previously known as Yorgo.
Jennifer Sky was Heidi Barrie in Buffy Season One Episode Six
(THE PACK) and (possessed by hyenas) was one of the group who ate Principal Flutie. Sky was also Amarice in 6
episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess.
And Musetta Vander was Ilainus in "Amphipolis Under Siege" (Xena episode 104). She was also Natalie French in "Teacher's Pet" (Episode 4 of BTVS).
In a whimsical moment, Harry Groener, the actor who played Mayor Richard Wilkins in 14 episodes of BTVS, was cast in the role of Nathan Samuels in the penultimate episode of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE. The name of the episode was "DEMONS"
This video starts with a 1985 Kristine Sutherland ad for Diet Coke, and continues with her first TV role as mystery writer Pamela Johns in REMINGTON STEELE. It finishes with 1991 ad for Lipton Golden Saute.
Sutherland changed her name because there was another actor with the name Kristine Young. She took Sutherland from her cat, which was named Donald (after Donald Sutherland). The actor who precipitated the name change is now Kristine Young Gaffney and works as an editor for various reality shows.
"Living Conditions", Season 4 Episode 2, deals primarily with Buffy's interaction with her demon-like roomie who plays the Cher song "Believe" repeatedly throughout the episode. Not really Buffy's music. Somehow this let to a Gellar appearance at a Cher press conference in New York. "Believe" was number one at the time, and Cher was the oldest person ever to have a number one single.
Note that in the second 1-800-COLLECT ad, Buffy's fingernails have gotten considerably longer than in the first.
Riff Regan was Willow. She is now Director of Operations for a non-profit HIV/AIDS organization in Washington, D.C. Stephen Tobolowski, who was the principal in the MAD ABOUT YOU episode "Uncle Phil Goes Back to High School", played Principal Flutie.
Voice Cast:
Giselle Loren as 'Buffy Summers'
Alyson Hannigan as 'Willow Rosenberg'
Nicholas Brendon as 'Xander Harris'
Anthony Stewart Head as 'Rupert Giles'
Charisma Carpenter as 'Cordelia Chase'
Michelle Trachtenberg as 'Dawn Summers'
Kristine Sutherland as 'Joyce Summers'
Armin Shimerman as 'Principal Snyder'
David Boreanaz as 'Angel'
A RUMOUR from afterellen.com. A writer at TV Overmind reported that one if his friends, whom he declined to name, is helping to produce a new animated Buffy series with Joss Whedon's blessing. In 2002, a cartoon series pilot featuring all of the original cast (minus Gellar) was shot. It never aired. The new animated series would be an adaption of the Buffy comics. But it's unclear if this means the Buffy Season 8 series or the previous comic series.
And according to Famous Monsters of Filmland, a casting call has gone out to fill roles for an upcoming webseries based on Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic. It seems likely the webseries will adapt Season 8's second arc, "No Future For You", written by Brian K. Vaughn. They're looking for voice actors, since the webisodes will be in motion-comic format.
The 2008 PALEYFEST: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reunion is out on DVD and available on Amazon. Below is a clip.
The above video was posted on YouTube by Zephiria. Below are some photos from CONVENTION:THE MUSICAL by Saeko Doyle and Dalanda D., in Paris.
THE THRONE OF THE SLAYER - BUFFY SUMMERS MAQUETTE, a detailed sculpture presenting an elaborately
seated chosen one, awaiting her next battle with the weight of her duty as the Slayer heavy on her shoulders.
Each piece is individually painted and finished, each with its own unique quality and detail. It's sold out
at the moment but you can get on a waiting list for a chance to get one in the summer at SIDESHOW
COLLECTIBLES for $249.99. Get it from darkfigures.com for
$229.99.
Question: If they're calling it a maquette, does that mean somebody is going to make a full-size version?
The 2012 Buffy Calendar is now available from AMAZON
According to aceshowbiz.com, Entertainment Weekly's list of the top TV and Movie characters of the last 20 years puts Buffy Summers third behind Homer Simpson and Harry Potter.
The latest Buffy video game, SACRIFICE (for Nintendo DS) has been out in Europe and Australia for some months now and has been getting good reviews. Still not released in the US though.
Alyson Hannigan posted the above photo on her twitpic account. She apparently found a Buffy/Faith hybrid.
A list of The 25 Women Who Shook Sci-Fi compiled by totalscifionline.com put Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy) in second place and Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) third. First place went to Sigourney Weaver (Ripley).
Life sized cardboard cutouts of Buffy are available at:
POLITICAL & CELEBRITY LIFE SIZE
CUTOUTS
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a part of the CHILLER schedule The series' regular time slot on CHILLER is weekdays at 6pm and 7pm. CHILLER TV is a cable channel devoted to horror and suspense.
Total SciFi Online has compiled a list of what they consider the 100 greatest SciFi and Fantasy TV shows. The list is worth reading as it includes many obscure but worthy series (such as Thunderbirds and The Quartermass Experiment). Buffy the Vampire Slayer is #6.
The most interesting Buffy castmember twitter accounts: @amber_benson (Tara), @SethGreen (Oz), @elizadushku (Faith), @alydenisof (Willow), @EcoRicoTV (animated Buffy), @AnthonySHead, (Giles), and @RealMichelleT (Dawn)
Rachel Bilson (Potential Slayrer Colleen) is Dr. Zoe Hart on HART OF DIXIE Monday nights on the CW. She will also star in THE TO DO LIST, as Amber, a high school graduate who feels pressured to acquire more sexual experience before going off to college. The clip below is from her time on THE O.C.
In the 2008 film HAMLET THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Directed by Jason Witter (who I believe teaches theater at New Mexico Community
College) a character named Buffy played by an unknown actor, makes a brief appearance. The DVD of this film was
released on 3 January and is available from Amazon for $13. For more information on this film see
Obscurus Lupa's review.
Emma Caulfield (Anya), was the blind witch who tried to eat Hansel and Gretel in the ONCE UPON A TIME episode "True North" which aired 15 January.
Caulfield, co-author of the webcomic series CONTROPUSSY, is starring in a new film TELLING OF THE SHOES, which is due out in 2012 and co-stars Lacy Chabert (who was the second person to play Bianca Montgomery on ALL MY CHILDREN). The film is about a dinner party gone wrong. Also at the dinner party is Julie Warner, who was Christy Henshaw in two episodes of STTNG. Henshaw was the woman that Geordi LaForge had no success dating.
And Caulfield is seeking backers for another comic project, LET'S GET RIPPED, which centers around the rise of psychic phenomena in mid-19th-century London.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Gellar said that she would only reprise the character of Buffy Summers if she were to appear on SESAME STREET, which is her daughter Charlotte's favourite TV show. "I could share a scene with Elmo. I mean, I've worked with some great people – Andy Garcia, Forest Whitaker - but they're not Elmo", she said, noting that she would also be willing to share a scene with Count von Count.
Arielle Kebbel, who was Allison in THE GRUDGE 2, stars with Christopher Gorham (James Stanley in the BTVS episode "I Only Have Eyes For You") in ANSWER THIS!, a 2010 comedy set in the world of competitive bar trivia. The film is now available on NETFLIX.
Amber Benson (Tara on BTVS) is set to star in a new webseries, MARIE'S ZERO GRAVITY BAR AND GRILL which will begin shooting very soon. Here's the premise: Marooned 50 light years from Earth with little else but a computer, Marie (Benson) opens an "intergalactic bar and grill" to support herself. According to AMBER BENSON ONLINE, the series is "'Stranger in a Strange Land' as seen through the eyes of Douglas Adams with a little Firefly & Red Dwarf thrown in for good measure." Jonathan M. Woodward, who was Holden Webster in the Buffy episode "Conversations With Dead People", and Knox in 7 episodes of ANGEL, will co-star. Earlier this year, Benson was in 3 episodes of another webseries, COUNT JEFF. See video below.
Giselle Loren (now Giselle Achecar), who was the voice of Buffy in the animated series pilot, has created a green reference and education website and video channel called ECO-RICO.
Charisma Carpenter did a made-for-tv movie called DEADLY SIBLING RIVALRY, in which she plays identical twins Janna and Callie. Janna gets married and has a daughter while Callie can't keep a job and getting tangled in illegal dealings. After a car crash puts Janna in a coma, Callie steals her sister's identity in order to get a fresh start in life. This sounds just a little bit like RINGER.
Carpenter also stars along with Rachel Hayward (unnamed Amazon in Xena episode #95) in the Canadian production OBSESSION, which has been released in France as Dangereuse obsession, and in Spain as Más allá de la obsesión. In the US its title will be A TRUSTED MAN. Carpenter's character, Sonia Patton, moves to another city for a new job, and is followed there by a stalker. On SUPERNATURAL on 21 October, she played half of a powerful witch couple (her husband was James Marsters).
According to ALL THINGS D, Facebook is working on a secret phone project code-named "Buffy". The Buffy Phone will run on a modified version of Android that Facebook has modified to integrate its services. It will also support HTML5 as a platform for applications. The new phone should hit the market in 12 to 18 months.
Jane Espenson is executive producer of HUSBANDS, an 11-part web series comedy set in a marriage-equalized world. The series premiered online in September, starring Cheeks, Sean Hemeon, and Alessandra Torresani (Zoe Graystone in Caprica) as their friend Haley. HUSBANDS is directed by Jeff Greenstein. It tells the story of a high-profile, newlywed gay couple.
Savario Guerra (Willie the Snitch in 5 BTVS episodes) will be Sydney Franklin in HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN, an HBO film about the romance between Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, who was the inspiration for the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls". The film stars Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, and Parker Posey. It will air on HBO in May 2012.
Redesigned box sets of BUFFY and ANGEL have been released in the UK (zone 2). They are available on Amazon.uk.
Joss Whedon's new film, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, stars Amy Acker (Fred Burkle of Angel) and Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Price in Buffy and Angel). It was shot in 16 days in Santa Monica, California. Another ANGEL alumnus, Merle Dandridge, will be guest-starring in at least one future episode of RINGER on the CW. She will play Siobhan Martin's psychiatrist, Dr. Anabel Morris. Dandridge was Lacey Shepard in ANGEL Episode 89.
Joss Whedon at Comic-Con said he would like to take Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Broadway as a stage production. I wonder if Alessandra Torresani can sing? (Wouldn't she make a great Buffy?)
Sarah Hagan (potential slayer Amanda) stars in the film JESS+MOSS, which is making the rounds of film festivals. In the film, Jess, age 18 (Sarah Hagan) and Moss, age 12 (Austin Vickers) are second cousins in the tobacco fields of Kentucky. Having no immediate families, and lacking friends their own age, over the course of a summer they explore each other's hopes and fears. Its next screening will be at the HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in April.
NBC's
GRIMM is based on a story idea from Jim Kouf, one of the writers for ANGEL, and David Greenwalt, writer of 8 episodes of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.
The show is about a world in which characters inspired by
Grimm's Fairy Tales exist, but not
in a nice way. It airs at 9pm Fridays.
Alyson Hannigan is the face of the new Head and Shoulders shampoo ad campaign.
Julie Benz is Patrick Wilson's sister in "Gifted Man", a CBS drama about a surgeon (Patrick Wilson) whose ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle) dies and then haunts him with advice about life.
Wondering what's going to happen in Season 9 of Buffy? Part One is out, and according to AfterEllen.com, as Season 9 opens, Buffy is a waitress in San Francisco. Dawn and Xander live together. Willow has a new girlfriend, Aura, and Spike is still lurking in the dark. Buffy takes advantage of the drastic reduction in the demonic threat level by partying hard. we first see her in the throes of a post-blackout hangover, wondering what happened, and thinking that she and Willow might have slept together. A series of flashbacks tells us that Buffy has a new apartment with two roommates (Anaheed and Tumble) and they had a huge housewarming party with lots of booze.
And Dark Horse Senior Managing Editor Scott Allie has said this about the character Tara:
"Not gonna say what we have planned for Tara in Season 9 but let's just say that Willow has some major trauma ahead of her. Willow maybe has reacted the least well at the end of Season 8 and she will be feeling that daily in the series."
Kristy Swanson (the original Buffy) appeared in episode #79 of PSYCH (Yang 3 in 2D). She was Marlowe Viccellio, described as "mysterious". Shawn and Gus will blamed her for a vampire-style murder after the police found an exsanguinaed body.
Swanson also is in a new film called LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND, which also stars Cuba Gooding Jr. It is about an alcoholic who has lived in the woods for 30 years until a judge orders him to a rehabilitation camp, where Swanson's character develops a special bond with him. Release date is 25 November.
Eliza Dushku (Faith) will be Moira in GHOSTBUSTERS 3, scheduled for 2012. In 2010, Dushku helped raised $30,420 for THARCE-Gulu, a new nonprofit organization designed to hellp former child soldiers and others affected by war in Uganda. The group was co-founded by her mother, Judy Dushku, who is a college professor in Boston.
Dushku's pilot with Damon Wayans, a sitcom set in a sports radio station, was not picked up by CBS. It had been inspired by ESPN's Colin Cowherd.
Michelle Trachtenberg made 2 guest appearances on Showtime's WEEDS, playing a low-level pot dealer named Emma.
Trachtenberg was featured in the March 2011 issue of MAXIM and also stars as Ashley in the film TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT which was released 4 March. The film also stars Teresa Palmer of THE GRUDGE 2, and is set in the 1980's at a Labour Day party which gives all the characters an excuse to resolve their relationship problems.
Here is a review of one of the lesser Buffy episodes by OBSRURUS LUPA.
Indigo (born Alyssa Ashley Nichols), who was potential slayer Rona, is Chloe in the film WEATHER WARS, released last July, with Stacey Keach and Erin Cahill. It's about weather being used as a weapon by a mad scientist. Indigo also has appeared in three episodes of TREME on HBO this year.
Two of the potential slayers from Buffy Season 7 have recently worked with Alyson Hannigan. Dania Ramirez (Carida) will be Trisha in AMERICAN REUNION, the fourth film in the American Pie series currently filming and due out in 2012. Rachel Bilson (Colleen) appeared in two episodes of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: "Big Days" and "Girls vs Suits".
Marc Blucas (Riley Finn), who does not have a website, is Matthew in the pilot of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS, a new USA TV series which stars Hannah Marks and Callie Thorne.
Amanda Fuller (Eve in 2 episodes of BTVS) is Beth in a Louisiana swamp monster flick called CREATURE. It co-stars Serinda Swann and Rebekah Kennedy. Tagline: TERROR HAS TEETH!.
James Marsters appeared at the Big Apple Comic Con Spring Edition last year for a two-hour "Bard Seminar", in which he read and discussed the works of William Shakespeare.
Seth Green (Oz of BTVS, and creator of ROBOT CHICKEN) voices the character of Milo in the Disney 3D animated film MARS NEEDS MOMS. The film also stars the voices of Dan Fogler and Joan Cusak. Seems Martians are just bad mothers (literally), so they need to import moms from Earth.
Anthony Head, who currently is Uther Pendragon (father of King Arthur) in the BBC's MERLIN, will star along with Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn (Crossing Jordan) in the NBC show FREE AGENTS. Head plays the CEO of the Dayton Group, reprising his role from the BBC series of the same name. The show airs at 8:30 Wednesdays.
Geoff Meed had a part (McRaven) in NBC's failed WONDER WOMAN pilot. Meed was in five episodes of Buffy, playing three different roles: Mag, Andrew Borba, and a vampire.
Juliet Landau (Drusilla in BTVS) has a couple of interesting projects in the works. First there is the web series NAUGHT FOR HIRE, where she will play Precious, the smart chip installed in Naught's ear. The show will star Nick Browder as a private investigator, and Jennifer Sky, (Amarice in Xena, Warrior Princess). Second, there is STRANGE FRAME:LOVE AND SAX, an animated SciFi film starring Claudia Black (Karina in XWP, Aeryn Sun in FARSCAPE). In this one the human race is living on Ganymede.
Below is episode one of ISS, a new webseries starring, among others, Jeff Ricketts of BTVS. Ricketts was Weatherby, one of the thugs from the Watchers Council who was sent to collect Faith after she went rogue.
monochrom's ISS 2011 / Episode 1 / "V-Day" from monochrom on Vimeo.
Fox has
released a repackaged version of its Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The Complete Series DVD boxed set (Amazon -
$180). The packaging is wider than the 2006 version, and features new cover art. The Special Features on the
40th DVD in the set are as follows:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales is a hardcover book of Buffy stories written by Joss Whedon, Amber Benson, Jane Espenson, and others. Many of the stories were written prior to the Season 8 stories, and others are selected stories from Season 8. It includes the story of the first Slayer drawn by Leinil Yu. It is available from Amazon for $19.79.
Clare Kramer, who was Glory in Season 5 of BTVS, is directing her first film. HARD LOVE will star Nick Brendon, Amy Lawhorn, and Stu Stone (Ronald Fisher in DONNIE DARKO). It should be out this year. The film also stars Camden Toy, who was one of the Gentlemen in the BTVS episode "Hush", and was Ubervamp in several other episodes. Kramer was also Lucinda Reynolds in the original short film D.E.B.S. (2003). Her character was played by Jordana Brewster in the 2004 feature film of the same name.
Julia Lee, whose character in BTVS had no less than three names (Chanterelle, Lily and Anne) and which crossed over into three episodes of ANGEL, is the image used (since 2006) by Disney to portray Constance Hatchaway, the "Black Widow Bride" at their Haunted Mansion. Interestingly enough, she has not appeared on television or on film since her Disney association began.
FAIRLY LEGAL, which premiered recently on the USA network, and stars Sarah Shahi as Kate Reed, is the second TV show to have a character obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (The first one is SyFy's EUREKA.) Kate's assistant, Leonardo Prince (Baron Vaughn), has a Sarah Michelle Gellar inscribed Buffy the Vampire Slayer watch.
In an interview with complex.com, Joss Whedon said this about the Buffy Comics: "Well, 40 issues was always the goal, and that's how we're playing it. We're around issue 30 now, we've got about 10 to go, five of which I have to write, so I have to get on that. Then we'll pause for breath and then we'll start Season Nine." When asked if Season 9 was a definite thing, Whedon went on to say: "Yeah, unless Dark Horse suddenly doesn't want it. I have had for a long time a conception for Season Nine that is very different from Season Eight. It may not run as long, because 40 issues sounds great until you realize that it's four or five years."
The comic, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: WILLOW, is now on sale. There is a preview at afterellen.com.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic is now available as a Blu-Ray/DVD combo for $21 on Amazon. It includes all 19 episodes.
The characters are voiced by:
Buffy - Kelly Albanese
Dawn - Julie O'Connor
Xander - Daniel Taylor
General Voll - J. Anthony McCarthy
Leah - Jane Mendez
Satsu - Michanne Quinney
CIA suit - Gary Clemmens
Lab Tech - Alex Collins
Renee - Heather Hemmens
Demon - Dan Kirschner
Rowena - Kristina Klebe
In her most recent film, Kelly Albanese, the new voice of
Buffy, was Monica Calone in STREET BOSS, a film about the Detroit mob.
Before Sarah Michelle Gellar took on the role of Buffy for the TV series there was the 1992 movie, with Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, Hilary Swank, and Donald Sutherland. Here is Obscurus Lupa's take on the film:
Whit Anderson, who had been hired by Warner Bros. to write the script for a new Buffy film, has been fired from the project and her script rejected as unworkable. The project has, at least temporarily, been shelved. It has been reported by FilmShaft.com that Joss Whedon was offered the role of writer, director or executive producer in the new Buffy film and he refused all of them. No indication as to why. WARNER BROS have optioned the rights to BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER from Franz and Kaz Kuzui and Sandollar Productions, so that Atlas Entertainment can produce a new feature film. The script will be written by Whit Anderson, who was a big Buffy fan when the series was on, and who convinced Charles Roven and Steve Alexander to produce the film.
Charles Roven has also produced SCOOBY DOO, AND SCOOBY DOO 2:
MONSTERS UNLEASHED, both with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Roven got a People's Choice Award for DARK KNIGHT
along with Co-producer Emma Thomas and Director Christopher Nolan.
Nicholas Brendon (Xander) had this to say to E! News: "I think it's a mistake. They have to reach a whole completely new fanbase, and we already have that fanbase. So it's going to really be hard to do that. But you know everyone - they remade The Flintstones. Twice, I think."
Sources said that in the Anderson script, Buffy was no longer in high school. She was a young college graduate, struggling to find a job and a healthy relationship. If the new Buffy was near the age of Heather Morris (23), this means they will be effectively picking up the story three or four years after the end of Season 7. Buffy will have returned to college and gotten a degree. That would set the new film in 2007 or so, giving us 4 missing years. Buffy should be 30 next year. That aside, Morris has a background as a dancer and gymnast, making her well-suited for the part. Rumours of Morris being cast in the role have circulated for months.
This year, Morris wrote, directed and starred in the short film THE ELEVATOR. She began her
career as a back-up dancer for Beyonce, and was featured in the "Single Ladies" video. Her middle name is
Elizabeth and she was born 1 February 1987 in Thousand Oaks, California. She should not be confused with the
Heather Morris who did the voices of Heather and Cheryl for the SILENT HILL video game.
She said this about THE ELEVATOR:
"The Elevator is a comedic short film about a young man, Nate, who has always had an unexplained fear of elevators. He is taken aback when he notices his female love interest (me), is misfortunately only seen inside the elevator. He goes to his roommate, Louise (played by Ashley Lendzion), to assist him on his journey to triumph over his fear and find a way to talk to her."
Kristy Swanson's reaction to the idea of a new Buffy film: "There are die-hard Joss Whedon fans who absolutely love him to death, and rightly so. He's a brilliant man, no doubt. I love everything Buffy. I don't care who's doing it." Swanson's co-star, Luke Perry said (through his agent) that he has no comment on the project.
Joss Whedon reacted with resignation and humour to Warner Bros announcement of the project. He said, in part,
"I don't love the idea of my creation in other hands, but I'm also well aware that many more hands than mine went into making that show what it was. And there is no legal grounds for doing anything other than sighing audibly. I can't wish people who are passionate about my little myth ill."
And then he joked:
"This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths - just because they can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself."
According to Teen Daily, Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) last spring turned down a role in a film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Later Hudgens said she was never asked about the Buffy film.