It looks like Buffy the Vampire Slayer is coming back from the dead (again) as part of a new Hulu series.
Deadline reports that Hulu is close to finalizing a pilot order for a Buffy the Vampire Slayer follow-up set to be directed by Chloé Zhao and written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (Poker Face). Dolly Parton is attached as an executive producer for the pilot, while Zhao, the Zuckerman sisters, Gail Berman, Fran Kuzui, and Kaz Kuzui will produce the series as a whole. As Deadline notes, Joss Whedon will not be working on the project.
No details about the show have been announced, but in addition to executive producing, Sarah Michelle Gellar is expected to reprise her role as Buffy Summers. After the original show went off the air in 2003, Buffy’s adventures continued on in the pages of Dark Horse’s comics series that ran until 2018.
Boom! Studios rebooted the franchise in its own 2018 comics series that ended up taking Buffy in a new direction. In terms of monsters and magic, both comics series got bigger than the original show ever did, which might make adapting them more expensive than Hulu is down for. But with so much Buffy lore out in the ether to pull from, the streamer can probably work something out.
