"In every generation, there is a Chosen One. She alone shall stand against the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness." We could see another Chosen One soon, as a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series is now in the works.
Multiple sources, including The Hollywood Reporter, are sharing that a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series is in development at 20th Century Fox Television.
Joss Whedon, who wrote the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie and created the TV series of the same name that followed several years later, is on board the new series (being referred to as a reboot) as an executive producer, and he's also collaborating on the script with Monica Owusu-Breen (Midnight, Texas, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), who will be the showrunner of the potential series.
Cast members for the new show have yet to be announced, but THR reveals that the script will feature a black actress in the lead role (the main character Buffy Summers was played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the original series and Kristy Swanson in the film version).
According to THR, the new series "will be contemporary and build on the mythology of the original. Like today's world, the new Buffy will be richly diverse, with some aspects of the series, like the flagship, seen as metaphors for issues facing society today."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie producers Gail Berman, Joe Earley, Fran Kazui, and Kaz Kazui are all on board to produce the new series, which does not yet have a network to call home (although it will reportedly be presented to streaming and cable platforms later this summer).
It's not yet known if characters from the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, which aired from 1997–2003 and followed the eponymous high school (and eventually college) student and her friends as they battled bloodsuckers (and other creepy creatures), will be involved in the new take. It's also uncertain if Whedon will be involved as a director (he's currently working on the new sci-fi series The Nevers for HBO).
We'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more details are revealed. In the meantime, would you like to see a new spin on Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
Image credit: Above image via Hulu.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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