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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I'm confident this is how Firefly will get the reboot...
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Originally posted by piratenews:
I'm confident this is how Firefly will get the reboot...
Oh. Gak!
"The sky is not the limit -- nor are the stars."
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So, us Whedon fans must combine our forces to ensure that a project set in the Whedonverse is cancelled? It has a certain symmetry to it.
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Without the Buffy/Joss fan base, it'll go no where.
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http://movies.ign.com/articles/113/1137551p1.html
Does that change any of your minds about the reboot? Joss passed on the opportunity most likely for Avengers. That or he didn't want to reboot Buffy.
I think it's only fair for someone else to get a crack at Buffy if Joss doesn't want it.
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Originally posted by ImNotHere:
I hate people who leech off other people's ideas.
Guess you missed that part where Joss acknowledges doing the same thing himself....
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Without the Buffy/Joss fan base, it'll go no where.
It's a relatively small fanbase though, and they're aiming for a much broader audience. While I'm sure they'd like all old Buffy fans to buy a ticket, we're largely irrelevant to them - they want to pick up the Twilight/True Blood/Vampire Diaries fans.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I haven't posted here in quite a while but I just read about this and I wanted to give my 2 cents. For one I think a reboot would be awesome but I think what the execs fail to realize is that its the hardcore fan base (us) who really decide the succuess of the project when it comes to reboots...namely reboots of concepts that have just recently been off the air. I think this movie will fail unless it is out of left field critically acclaimed and brilliant which I'm not counting out entirely but it'll lack the charm that Joss's writing brought to it and that's why I really feel it will fail. Though I say all this and I know damn well that I'm gonna watch it if just to mock and scowel at the result. I do however wonder how close to the original story line they'll stay or if they're going to screw it up entirely. I will laugh, yet be twistedly satisfied if there are any Joss alums in it though....Who knows Summer Glau as the new Buffy.......? Am I about to be mocked...I think so.
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Originally posted by DanielFyre:
I haven't posted here in quite a while but I just read about this and I wanted to give my 2 cents. For one I think a reboot would be awesome but I think what the execs fail to realize is that its the hardcore fan base (us) who really decide the succuess of the project when it comes to reboots...namely reboots of concepts that have just recently been off the air. I think this movie will fail unless it is out of left field critically acclaimed and brilliant which I'm not counting out entirely but it'll lack the charm that Joss's writing brought to it and that's why I really feel it will fail. Though I say all this and I know damn well that I'm gonna watch it if just to mock and scowel at the result. I do however wonder how close to the original story line they'll stay or if they're going to screw it up entirely. I will laugh, yet be twistedly satisfied if there are any Joss alums in it though....Who knows Summer Glau as the new Buffy.......? Am I about to be mocked...I think so.
I think that's actually wrong. The hardcore fanbase is not the key. The key is to get more of the hundreds of millions of casual movie goers to want to see it. If they can get them then they won't care about us. I'm sure the whole point of the reboot is try to get Buffy to go mainstream. If they can get a twilight style following then they can stomp all over the previous versions for all they care.
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