In certainly one of Hollywood’s oddest twists of late, Ethernals and Neither Director Chloé Zhao apparently produced and helmed the pilot of the new Buffy reboot, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale.
In a brand new interview with The LA Timeswherein she particulars her response to Ethernals essential reception and her new movie Hamnetan adaptation of a e-book by the similar title about Shakespeare’s marriage, she revealed to author Josh Rottenberg that her firm had labored on the Buffy reboot. “I just wrapped the pilot on the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, which is set 25 years later. My company is part of developing it. The fandom is so special to me and I’m excited about how that’s going to go into the world.”
She drops the information so casually, I nearly needed to learn it twice.
It appears this tidbit received misplaced in the preliminary flurry of press round information of the reboot, however star Sarah Michelle Gellar really wrote a poignant caption about Zhao again in February. She shared, of the artistic partnership: “Three years ago, I got a call from my dear friend and mentor, Gail Berman. She told me that she wanted me to sit down with Chloé Zhao to hear her take on a potential ‘Buffy’ revival. I was blown away that Chloé even knew who I was, but, as I’ve always done, I told Gail that I just didn’t see a way for the show to exist again.” She mentioned that “I eventually agreed to go (mainly just to meet Chloé) and our twenty minute coffee quickly turned into a four hour adventure. We laughed, we cried, but mostly we both talked about how much this show means to us.”
Gellar says it took a number of conversations to conform to the concept of the reboot in any respect, after which, after a number of years, writers Nora and Lilla Zuckerman had been introduced on to carry the undertaking to life. “I feel so lucky to be on this journey with these four unbelievably talented women, all of whom love “Buffy” as much as I do,” she concluded, with obvious superfan Snooki writing in response: “YAS QUEEN.”
Amid the rehashing of the information about Zhao’s involvement, an obvious superfan herself, Gellar shared a collection of pictures from the pilot shoot. Zhao, for her half, will be seen wielding an iconic vampire-slaying stake. Snooki commented, as soon as once more, a easy utterance in the feedback: “Chills.”