FOX Provides Update on ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Reboot

The CEO for FOX Television, Gary Newman, spoke at the Television Critics Association panel and had this to say regarding when we might see Buffy The Vampire Slayer make her return to television:

“It’s not on an incredibly fast track, but we’re hopeful,”

It was announced last month at Comic Con that the show would be making a return to television with Joss Whedon returning to executive produce and new showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen. Breen is reportedly looking to cast a person of color for the role of Buffy this go around, Sarah Michelle Gellar was the face of Buffy on television from 1996-2003 and Kristy Swanson played the character in the 1992 film. Newman also added saying:

“There’s actually no script to see. We’ve sat down with creators and had conversations with them about it. It’s a very exciting prospect, It’s fairly early. We haven’t pitched it to any possible licensees yet, all of that is still to come. We’re thrilled that Joss has engaged Monica who he worked with on one of his other series. She’s the person who is day to day on it. She has a great take on the show.”

Owusu-Breen was quoted saying this in regards to how excited she is for Buffy and how her show will differ from Whedon’s:

“For some genre writers it’s Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars. Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight, and struggle and slay. There is only one Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel… They can’t be replaced. Joss Whedon’s brilliant and beautiful series can’t be replicated. I wouldn’t try to. But here we are, twenty years later… And the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer…. And that’s all I can say.”

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