In 2018 it was announced that Joss Whedon was developing a reboot of Buffy The Vampire Slayer series with 20th Century Fox. Whedon was an executive producer on the project and would help develop it with the writer Monica Owusu-Breen (SHIELD agents).
The reboot of the new series would also have seen a black actress take on the lead role, who had been played in the original series by Sarah Michelle Gellar. It has been called “contemporary, based on the mythology of the original”.
It’s been a while since we last had updates on this project and a lot has happened since then! 20th Century Fox was bought by Disney and is now called 20th Century Studios and Joss Whedon was deleted. So, it should come as a surprise to learn that the project has been paused.
I came across the news on TV Line and during an episode of THR’s The 5 best on TV podcast, executive producer Gail Berman says the project is now “on hiatus”.
Who knows if the project will ever start moving forward again? If he does, it won’t take a while, and who knows if Whedon will be involved as well, if that happens.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
