Jun 5, 2015 Probably one of the greatest shows of all time. I wrote an article on my idea for a sequel series. Let me know what you think http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/06...or-a-sequel-3282143?lt_source=external,manual I'll also be posting info on the planned movie reboot/remake. It's stuck in development h--- and none of the original cast or crew is attached. That includes Whedon.
Jun 5, 2015 Buffy is one of my favourite shows of all time, top 5 for me, and I've always felt like too much time has passed for a sequel to work properly; everyone moved on and got old, particularly David Boreanaz and James Marsters who are too noticeably middle-aged to play ageless vampires. But that article was a good read and a pretty interesting idea that I've never considered before
Jun 5, 2015 A part of me screamed with excitement there would be a sequel... until I read your post Buffy was GOAT back in the day, but i always preferred the Angel spin-off more. Buffy and Angel continued in a canon comic book series.
Jun 5, 2015 My bad man. Still GOAT. My article is basically my own spin on what a sequel would be. The idea is that in the future Buffy and Crew face off against a new evil/demon that can time travel. Unable to k--- the battle hardened Buffy of the present, the demon travels back in time to season 1. Sunny Dale High. 1996. To k--- Buffy as a teenager. Buffy follows and in the resulting battle both Giles and the demon are killed. Buffy is stuck in the past and must become the watcher for her younger self while keeping her identity secret and trying to find her way back home.
Jun 5, 2015 The popularity of Buffy and Angel has led to attempts to develop more on-screen ventures in the fictional 'Buffyverse'. These projects remain undeveloped and may never be greenlit. In 2002, two potential spinoffs were in discussion: Buffy the Animated Series and Ripper. Buffy the Animated Series was a proposed animated TV show based on Buffy; Whedon and Jeph Loeb were to be executive producers for the show, and most of the cast from Buffy were to return to voice their characters. 20th Century Fox showed an interest in developing and selling the show to another network. A three-minute pilot was completed in 2004, but was never picked up. Whedon revealed to The Hollywood Reporter: "We just could not find a home for it. We had six or seven hilarious scripts from our own staff – and nobody wanted it."[95] Neither the pilot nor the scripts have been seen outside of the entertainment industry, though writer Jane Espenson has teasingly revealed small extracts from some of her scripts for the show.[96] Ripper was originally a proposed television show based upon the character of Rupert Giles portrayed by Anthony Stewart Head. More recent information has suggested that if Ripper were ever made, it would be a TV movie or a DVD movie.[97] There was little heard about the series until 2007 when Joss Whedon confirmed that talks were almost completed for a 90 minute Ripper special on the BBC[98] with both Head and the BBC completely on board. In 2003, a year after the first public discussions on Buffy the Animated Series and Ripper, Buffy was nearing its end. Espenson has said that during this time spinoffs were discussed, "I think Marti talked with Joss about Slayer School and Tim Minear talked with him about Faith on a motorcycle. I assume there was some back-and-forth pitching."[99] Espenson has revealed that Slayer School might have used new slayers and potentially included Willow Rosenberg, but Whedon did not think that such a spinoff felt right.[100][101] Dushku declined the pitch for a Buffyverse TV series based on Faith and instead agreed to a deal to produce Tru Calling. Dushku explained to IGN: "It would have been a really hard thing to do, and not that I would not have been up for a challenge, but with it coming on immediately following Buffy, I think that those would have been really big boots to fill."[102] Tim Minear explained some of the ideas behind the aborted series: "The show was basically going to be Faith meets Kung Fu. It would have been Faith, probably on a motorcycle, crossing the earth, trying to find her place in the world."[103] Finally, during the summer of 2004 after the end of Angel, a movie about Spike was proposed.[104] The movie would have been directed by Tim Minear and starred Marsters and Amy Acker and featured Alyson Hannigan.[105] Outside the 2006 Saturn Awards, Whedon announced that he had pitched the concept to various bodies but had yet to receive any feedback.[106] In September 2008, Sci-Fi Wire ran an interview with Sarah Michelle Gellar in which she said she would not rule out returning to her most iconic role: "Never say never," she said. "One of the reasons the original Buffy movie did not really work on the big screen–and people blamed Kristy, but that's not what it was–the story was better told over a long arc," Gellar said. "And I worry about Buffy as a 'beginning, middle and end' so quickly. ... You show me a script; you show me that it works, and you show me that [the] audience can accept that, [and] I'd probably be there. Those are what my hesitations are."[107] From Wikipedia on the spinoffs and a possible film continuation.
Jun 5, 2015 I've read up on all the proposed/cancelled sequels and spin-offs in the past, and I'd still like to see Ripper happen. Didn't Whedon mention that it was still on the table a few years back?
Jun 5, 2015 Not sure. I haven't heard anything about it in a while. It's be cool to do a movie about Ripper when he was a bad dude. I'd be game for a spike movie to. He was one of my favorite characters. I'd love a movie about him set before season 1. Maybe during WW2. Set Spike as an Anti-hero. Still bad but fighting for a good cause that just happens to align with his. Also I would love a new Buffy video game. Maybe by Rocksteady. Imagine Buffy with Cat Woman like controls. maybe an original story or a retelling of the series. Or retelling the original movie. But within the continuity of the series.
