Joss Whedon responds to Buffy news with strong mixed emotions
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UPDATED: Tuesday, December 7, 2010 15:28
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Joss finally responds to the news of Whit Stillman being chosen to scribe the upcoming Buffy reboot.
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/11/22/joss-whedon-responds-to-buff
y-news-with-strong-mixed-emotions/
and if you don't know who Whit Anderson is, The LA Times has a write up on her.
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/11/22/joss-who-meet-the-writer-of-
the-new-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-film/?_r=true
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What's the deal that has Warner Brothers commissioning this instead of Fox? Did Fox sell Buffy to Warner Brothers?
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"this is not your high-school Buffy"
This phrase alone worries me. I'm not sure if this means "this isn't the Buffy you remember from when you were in high school" (which shows a lack of understanding how many non-high-schoolers watched) ... or if maybe it means the new Buffy will be a twenty-something divorcee with two kids and a mortgage (shudder).
Does *not* bode well.
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I seriously despise remakes that have little to do with the original. Aren't we all just a bit fed up with it? Hollywood's been shoving such crap down our throats for years now. Don't they have the creativity to come up with something new themselves? Why rehash (read: destroy) old stories over and over again? They invariably flop. Don't they ever learn?
"The sky is not the limit -- nor are the stars."
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But seriously, are vampires even popular any more?
That one made me smile.
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Originally posted by Neesierie:
I seriously despise remakes that have little to do with the original. Aren't we all just a bit fed up with it? Hollywood's been shoving such crap down our throats for years now. Don't they have the creativity to come up with something new themselves?
Trouble is that they are coming up with something new --they just apply old titles, concepts, and names to their new creation in a vain attempt to capitalize on the success of what came before.
Writers are being daring and creative. It's the marketing people who are ruining everything.
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I'm just glad they found someone with a lot of writing experience to handle the property.
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Writers are being daring and creative. It's the marketing people who are ruining everything.
Can we kill them all (like lawyers)?
"The sky is not the limit -- nor are the stars."
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Unfortunately, no, because without marketing people, the daring writers would generally not know how to get their scripts in from of large numbers of people.
Unlike lawyers, marketing is a NECESSARY evil.
If we're going to play the blame game, though, I don't think the problem is with writing OR marketing (those guys are just doing what they're paid to do). It's the STUDIOS who are conservative enough that they don't want to risk a lot of money on new ideas. (And, from a certain point of view, who can blame them?)
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