• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reboot Adds 5

    From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 19:33:49 2025
    https://tvline.com/casting-news/buffy-reboot-sarah-bock-jack-cutmore-scott-cast-hulu-1235477852/

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reboot Adds 5 — Including Severance and Frasier
    Vets
    BY KIMBERLY ROOTS, NICK CARUSO
    JULY 24, 2025 11:00 AM

    Scoobies, assemble!

    Hulu‘s Buffy reboot pilot just added several series regulars to the cast, TVLine has learned. They include a Severance scene-stealer, a Major Crimes detective and Frasier‘s son.

    Sarah Bock (Severance) will play Gracie. Ava Jean (Law & Order: SVU) will
    play Larkin. Faly Rakotohavana (Unprisoned, Raven’s Home) joins as Hugo.
    All are series regulars. Though no official character information is
    available, these roles match up with the roles of the new Slayer’s close friends that TVLine first reported in March.

    In addition, Jack Cutmore-Scott (Frasier, Deception) will play the reboot’s Mr. Burke (dare we hope he’s a Giles-type Watcher?) and Daniel di Tomasso (Major Crimes) will play a character named Abe. Both are series regulars.

    The potential series continuation, which likely will find original series
    lead Sarah Michelle Gellar reprising her titular role as a recurring guest star, is said to be focused on a new Slayer and “the next chapter in the Buffyverse.” As previously reported, Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew) will play the new lead, who is said to be a brainy and
    cerebral teen that’s possibly more Willow than Buffy. Further details
    remain TBA.

    Chloé Zhao (who won a directing Oscar for her 2020 feature Nomadland) is attached to direct and executive-produce the project, with additional EPs including Gellar, Gail Berman, Fran Kuzui, Kaz Kuzui and Dolly Parton.
    (Berman, the Kuzuis and Parton all executive-produced the original Buffy series.)

    As for other returning Buffy cast members, no one from the original cast
    has been confirmed (yet) aside from Gellar herself. “We will try to find a balance between new and old characters,” Gellar teased. “My dream is to bring back everyone who has died, but space will have to be made for new stories as well.”

    Is your excitement for Buffy 2.0 growing? Drop your thoughts in the
    comments below.



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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 25 07:37:50 2025
    On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:33:49 -0700, anim8rfsk <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    https://tvline.com/casting-news/buffy-reboot-sarah-bock-jack-cutmore-scott-cast-hulu-1235477852/

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reboot Adds 5 � Including Severance and Frasier
    Vets
    BY KIMBERLY ROOTS, NICK CARUSO
    JULY 24, 2025 11:00 AM

    Scoobies, assemble!

    Hulu�s Buffy reboot pilot just added several series regulars to the cast, >TVLine has learned. They include a Severance scene-stealer, a Major Crimes >detective and Frasier�s son.

    Sarah Bock (Severance) will play Gracie. Ava Jean (Law & Order: SVU) will >play Larkin. Faly Rakotohavana (Unprisoned, Raven�s Home) joins as Hugo.
    All are series regulars. Though no official character information is >available, these roles match up with the roles of the new Slayer�s close >friends that TVLine first reported in March.

    In addition, Jack Cutmore-Scott (Frasier, Deception) will play the reboot�s >Mr. Burke (dare we hope he�s a Giles-type Watcher?) and Daniel di Tomasso >(Major Crimes) will play a character named Abe. Both are series regulars.

    The potential series continuation, which likely will find original series >lead Sarah Michelle Gellar reprising her titular role as a recurring guest >star, is said to be focused on a new Slayer and �the next chapter in the >Buffyverse.� As previously reported, Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Star Wars: >Skeleton Crew) will play the new lead, who is said to be a brainy and >cerebral teen that�s possibly more Willow than Buffy. Further details
    remain TBA.

    Chlo� Zhao (who won a directing Oscar for her 2020 feature Nomadland) is >attached to direct and executive-produce the project, with additional EPs >including Gellar, Gail Berman, Fran Kuzui, Kaz Kuzui and Dolly Parton. >(Berman, the Kuzuis and Parton all executive-produced the original Buffy >series.)

    As for other returning Buffy cast members, no one from the original cast
    has been confirmed (yet) aside from Gellar herself. �We will try to find a >balance between new and old characters,� Gellar teased. �My dream is to
    bring back everyone who has died, but space will have to be made for new >stories as well.�

    Is your excitement for Buffy 2.0 growing? Drop your thoughts in the
    comments below.

    This is a remake that isn't needed.

    Ugh!

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jul 25 10:26:40 2025
    [email protected] wrote:

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reboot Adds 5

    No thanks.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sat Jul 26 12:09:03 2025
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:37:50 -0400, NoBody <[email protected]> wrote:

    This is a remake that isn't needed.

    Agreed - and is particularly macabre given Michelle Trachtenberg's
    (Buffy's sister Dawn) sister. Good lord, she's not even six months
    gone yet! It's positively indecent to be discussing a remake so soon.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Melissa Hollingsworth on Sat Jul 26 13:18:34 2025
    On 7/26/2025 1:00 PM, Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:
    Verily, in article <[email protected]>, did [email protected] deliver unto us this message:

    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:37:50 -0400, NoBody <[email protected]> wrote:

    This is a remake that isn't needed.

    Agreed - and is particularly macabre given Michelle Trachtenberg's
    (Buffy's sister Dawn) sister. Good lord, she's not even six months
    gone yet! It's positively indecent to be discussing a remake so soon.

    I'm not sure that's relevant. Her death was certainly a shock, but the
    reboot was probably beginning to happen before that.

    I'm interested enough in this to give it a try. It'll be interesting to
    see how they handle the big ol' final spell which turned every potential Slayer into a full Slayer. My guess is that they'll either ignore it completely or say it wore off or something, since the show's core is
    about "one girl in all the world" having to handle all this.

    They'll handle it the same way superhero comics handle it when an
    individual hero's comic has a potentially world-ending enemy to fight. :D

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 27 08:45:51 2025
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:09:03 -0700, The Horny Goat <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:37:50 -0400, NoBody <[email protected]> wrote:

    This is a remake that isn't needed.

    Agreed - and is particularly macabre given Michelle Trachtenberg's
    (Buffy's sister Dawn) sister. Good lord, she's not even six months
    gone yet! It's positively indecent to be discussing a remake so soon.

    Hollywood only cares about money, not decency.

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  • From Alan Smithee@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sun Jul 27 20:29:41 2025
    On 2025-07-25 08:37 AM, NoBody wrote:
    This is a remake that isn't needed.

    Ugh!

    SMG needs the cash because everything she starred in afterwards bombed:
    Ringer, Crazy Ones, Wolf Pack.

    She got luck when they picked her for Buffy.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 31 09:43:49 2025
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:00:14 -0700, Melissa Hollingsworth <[email protected]> wrote:

    I'm interested enough in this to give it a try. It'll be interesting to
    see how they handle the big ol' final spell which turned every potential >Slayer into a full Slayer. My guess is that they'll either ignore it >completely or say it wore off or something, since the show's core is
    about "one girl in all the world" having to handle all this.

    I agree - that finale was the ultimate "no you can't do a remake"
    episode.

    I thought it was one of the best series finales I ever saw but it's
    clear at that time nobody was thinking in terms of sequel.

    Now if they could bring back with a smoking hot daughter of Buffy and Angel..... <just kidding>

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 31 15:25:30 2025
    [email protected] wrote:
    On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:00:14 -0700, Melissa Hollingsworth ><[email protected]> wrote:

    I'm interested enough in this to give it a try. It'll be interesting to
    see how they handle the big ol' final spell which turned every potential >>Slayer into a full Slayer. My guess is that they'll either ignore it >>completely or say it wore off or something, since the show's core is
    about "one girl in all the world" having to handle all this.

    I agree - that finale was the ultimate "no you can't do a remake"
    episode.

    Nah, that honour goes to Newhart.

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 1 04:30:44 2025
    [email protected] wrote:
    [email protected] wrote:
    [email protected] wrote:

    I agree - that finale was the ultimate "no you can't do a remake" episode. >>
    Nah, that honour goes to Newhart.

    Dick could have dozed off again.

    The dead do not dream!

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 1 04:30:45 2025
    [email protected] wrote:
    The Horny Goat <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:37:50 -0400, NoBody <[email protected]> wrote:

    This is a remake that isn't needed.

    Agreed - and is particularly macabre given Michelle Trachtenberg's
    (Buffy's sister Dawn) sister. Good lord, she's not even six months
    gone yet! It's positively indecent to be discussing a remake so soon.

    Hollywood only cares about money, not decency.

    I am sure there's a "Go woke, go broke!" joke in there somewhere.

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