The pilot episode for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, directed by Chloé Zhao, is gearing to start production soon, with returning Slayer Sarah Michelle Gellar and new Slayer Ryan Kiera Armstrong getting ready to fight the undead. And the question on every Buffy fan’s mind since the legacy sequel series announcement is “Which other classic cast members might return?” Well, it seems Sarah Michelle Gellar has been asking the very same question. But in an interview with Vanity Fair Italia, via Variety, the actress says she hopes to bring back even characters who famously ended up dead on the show in the Buffy reboot.
Here’s what she told Vanity Fair about undoing death in the Buffy reboot:
It will be lighter than the last few seasons of the original. We will try to find a balance between new and old characters. My dream is to bring back everyone who has died, but space will have to be made for new stories as well.
Buffy fans know that many of the franchise’s most beloved characters ended up dead over the course of the series. Chief among them are Buffy’s mother Joyce Summers (Kristine Sutherland), Tara Maclay (Amber Benson), and Anya (Emma Caulfield). Also, original Buffy cast member Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase, saw her character die on the spin-off series Angel. Also killed off in the final season of Angel was Buffy’s former Watcher, Wesley Wyndam Pryce (Alexis Denisof). Some of those deaths were poignant and very realistic, like Buffy’s mother Joyce. Certainly bringing her back, along with a few others, would feel in poor taste.
Having said that, the Buffy franchise is no stranger to resurrections. Several iconic deaths on Buffy were later undone, including good guy vampires Angel (David Boreanaz) and Spike (James Marsters), and perhaps most famously, Buffy Summers herself. Heck, Buffy actually died twice. And some of those actors could come back as their dead characters in dream sequences, visions, and even multiversal variants. Yes, the world of Buffy has alternate universes too, ya know. So some of those iconic actors might return without literal resurrections. We’ll just have to be patient and wait and see who comes back from the dead in the Buffy reboot, when New Sunnydale returns after so many years.
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