Buffy the Vampire Slayer icon Sarah Michelle Gellar is opening up a bit more about the long-anticipated new chapter in the Buffyverse..
According to Gellar, this project isn’t a reboot, and it isn’t quite a sequel either. It’s Buffy, but something different.
Officially titled Buffy: New Sunnydale, the series will see Gellar, who starred as the Slayer for seven seasons, return in a guest capacity, passing the stake (so to speak) to a new generation. The new Slayer will be played by Ryan Kiera Armstrong, alongside a cast that includes Faly Rakotohavana (Unprisoned, Secret Society of Second Born Royals), Chase Sui Wonders (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Ava Jean (A Week Away, Law & Order: SVU), Sarah Bock (Severance), Daniel di Tomasso (Witches of East End, Major Crimes), and Jack Cutmore-Scott (Oppenheimer, Frasier).
Speaking on the Shut Up, Evan podcast where she revealed the official title, Gellar clarified the show’s direction:
“It’s not a sequel, it’s not a reboot — it’s a continuation.”
She explained that the series will explore where Buffy is now, what kind of world she lives in today, and how that world exists both with her and without her.
New Sunnydale sounds like it’s interested in legacy, in a very changed world since the show aired..
If done right, this could be exactly what fans have hoped for: not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake, but a smart evolution of one of television’s heroes .m
But the real question now is will there be a musical.
