Buffy reboot titled Buffy: New Sunnydale, Gellar calls it a 'continuation'

Movieweb reports the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot has an official title: Buffy: New Sunnydale. Produced at streaming platform Hulu, the pilot episode is already in the can with Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao at the helm, Sarah Michelle Gellar returning as Buffy Summers and Ryan Kiera Armstrong starring as the new slayer, Nova.

Guesting on the Shut Up Evan podcast, Gellar said, "It's not a sequel, it's not a reboot — it's a continuation," and explained the title reflects where her character "is now in this world, and what is this world that Buffy lives in with her and without her." She also admitted she learned a "hard" lesson about saying "never say never" after previously opposing resurrecting Buffy, and described roughly three years of back-and-forth development with Zhao before agreeing to take part.

Gellar has told IGN that Buffy: New Sunnydale will be "meaningful" to fans of the original show, which aired between 1997 and 2003 and is cited as influential on later series such as Supernatural, True Blood, The Umbrella Academy and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. A completed pilot exists, and longtime fans continue to debate which legacy characters, if any, should return for this continuation.

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