'Buffy' relaunches without Whedon
POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 21:30
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Originally posted by Dewrastler:
I read about this over at Superherhype.com and I think to make a Buffy movie that ignores the 7 seasons that were on TV and didn't have SMG is just ridiculous. That's not Buffy. That's just another vampire movie. You can't have Buffy without Joss or any of the original cast. I don't see what the problem would be to keep it in line with the series.
That would be my first instinct as well, but then again, there are many who said you couldn't do Star Trek with a new cast and new creators, and that turned out pretty kick-ass.
The only difference between this and Star Trek is the time since the original series and the age of the actors.
The new Star Trek came to mind when I first heard of this too, and I really enjoyed that movie. The thing is that the original crew really can't carry a movie anymore. They've gotten old, so replacing them is more acceptable since the original series aired about 40 years ago.
With Buffy, the cast can still handle the project. Think of it like this: It would be like the original Star Trek movies with a different actors. That just wouldn't have seemed right, because the actors could still portray the roles.
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I don't disagree with the notion tht the original cast could still do a movie. But that doesn't change my view of this, either. Sure, I'd prefer to see a Wheon-made movie that picks up from the show. My prefrence doesn't mean that a new version couldn't be worth watching, though.
Perception of a fan(s) does not hve a cause/effect relationship with a potential new movie. A fan of the show may not be able at accept a new version, but that doesn't mean the movie will automatically be bad because siad fan(s) don't want it. I'm open minded enough to give the benefit of the doubt. If it sucks - that's when the knives come out.
And let's face it, the cast members of the show are not exactly box-office draws. Most haven't even been getting work, and the biggest name of the lost has fallen into the DTV ghetto.
Not to mention, when it comes down to it, it's a story aimed at teens. The teen audience is what they'll want to appeal to again - and that's hard to do with a group of actors pushing 40.
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BtVS revisited? Indeed?
The Kuzui duo were the two people most responsible for taking Joss's script in 1991 and mangling it so badly he nearly cried. The result was the tangled, jumbled, pile of go-see staring Kristy Swanson in 1992.
And here they come capitalize on the franchise Joss turned into a household name. I fear they will take liberties....grave ones....as Tycho from Penny Arcade relates in a manner far better than I: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/28/
What shall the Kuzui duo stich out of their whole cloth? What new shambling horror of storytelling will lurch it's way off their Frankensteinian table?
Oh the humanity.
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Oh lord.. so they are re-inventing a movie that had one funny line in it?? YAY can't wait to rush out and buy tickets for that
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I don't understand how they can make the Buffy movie without permission from Joss. Doens't he have 'some rights' over the Buffy 'verse?
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Originally posted by BlackCatLady:
I don't understand how they can make the Buffy movie without permission from Joss. Doens't he have 'some rights' over the Buffy 'verse?
Nope. He sold the script to the Kazuis when he was starting out. They hired him to develop the series. But he has no ownership of it whatsoever.
Creators rarely control the rights. The only way studios will put up the financing to make something is if they get to own it. George Lucas is about the only guy who managed to keep the rights to what he created.
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Just read this from Felica Day's tweet.
I got no words.
The T.Rex they call JANE!
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Playing devil's advocate there, but....does anyone know if Joss was asked and declined involvement?
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I guess what irks me is that the person most responsible for that abomination that was the Buffy movie NOW wants a second crack at it, a chance for a "re-imagining" of it, as if in an effort at cranking up a franchise for it.
I've got news for her: It already WAS re-imagined, THE RIGHT WAY, when Joss did seven years of the show. He also made a hell of a franchise of it, one which is still going.
Star Trek's new jump-start I can handle; it was done more as an homage to (and in honor of) Gene Roddenberry's original. ALL of the Star Trek franchise have been done with respect to Roddenberry and his wife. I just don't feel like Kuzui has paid Joss any respect at all, and has only left him to clean up her mess.
Mike
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