Buffy reboot showrunner addresses the backlash: "It could be time to meet a new Slaye - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 07-26-2018, 09:11 PM

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...cklash-1130011

Monica Owusu-Breen, who has been tapped to create the new Buffy with a black female lead, posted the following statement on Twitter this morning addressing the backlash to the reboot news: "For some genre writers it's Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars ... Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight, and struggle and slay ... There is only one Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel … They can't be replaced. Joss Whedon's brilliant and beautiful series can't be replicated. I wouldn't try to ... But here we are, 20 years later … and the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer … And that's all I can say."

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Mr. Television · 07-26-2018, 10:08 PM

These remakes and reboots are getting ridiculous. Hollywood has just run out of ideas.

07-26-2018, 09:11 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,393	Buffy reboot showrunner addresses the backlash: "It could be time to meet a new Slaye https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...cklash-1130011 Monica Owusu-Breen, who has been tapped to create the new Buffy with a black female lead, posted the following statement on Twitter this morning addressing the backlash to the reboot news: "For some genre writers it's Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars ... Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight, and struggle and slay ... There is only one Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel … They can't be replaced. Joss Whedon's brilliant and beautiful series can't be replicated. I wouldn't try to ... But here we are, 20 years later … and the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer … And that's all I can say." ALSO: Owusu-Breen may have hinted the new Buffy will be a revival -- not a reboot Shonda Rhimes responds to Owusu-Breen's statement: "I, for one, am LOSING MY MIND WITH ANTICIPATION! Please hurry."

07-26-2018, 10:08 PM	#2
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