'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Reboot in the Works, Sarah Michelle Gellar to Reprise Her Role!

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is seemingly being brought back from the dead…again! More than two decades after the series ended with Season 7, a reboot of the fan-favorite TV series in the works and nearing a pilot order from Hulu, with Sarah Michelle Gellar expected to reprise her signature role as Buffy Summers, via Deadline.

Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, a “self-professed lifelong Buffy fan,” is set to direct the pilot, written by Poker Face‘s Nora and Lilla Zuckerman. Chloé is known for work including Songs My Brothers Taught Me, The Rider, Nomadland and Marvel’s Eternals. Keep reading to find out more… “I hear the reboot is starting a writers room soon, a sign that Hulu and the studios have high expectations for the project going to series.

It is unclear yet whether other original Buffy cast members would return; that is considered likely,” Deadline reports. Plot details are still being kept under wraps, but it is “described as the next chapter in the Buffyverse.” Among the executive producers of the pilot is Dolly Parton, whose company Sandollar was producer on the original.

Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who also wrote the 1992 movie the series was based on, has no involvement in the reboot.