“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Reboot Won’t Try to Replicate the Original

The cast of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" - Michelle Trachtenberg, James Marsters, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Benson, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head, Nicholas Brendon, Emma Caulfield. Photo by 20th Century Fox Television/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886115c)

Since plans to make a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot were announced, the fans of the original are far from happy. Even though the creator and writer of the original, Joss Whedon, will take part in the project, this decision caused a massive online backlash. Understandably, this is because people who think great shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer should be left alone in this reboot craze that caught the world of television.

Now, the reboot’s writer and showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen (Agents of SHIELD), decided to speak out and clarify the intentions she and the producers have for the show.

“For some genre writers it’s Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars,” Owusu-Breen wrote in a note posted on Twitter. “Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight, and struggle and slay.”

“There is only one Buffy,” she continued. “One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel…They can’t be replaced. Joss Whedon’s brilliant and beautiful series can’t be replicated. I wouldn’t try to. But here we are, twenty years later…And the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer…And that’s all I can say.”

According to reports, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot has been in the works last fall. The idea is to make a show with a similar premise to the original but to have a black actress in a lead role. Still, the show currently doesn’t have a network or cast, and Owusu-Breen is still working on a script.

The original Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show run from 1997 to 2003 and received critical and widespread acclaim. It starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy, a young girl who belongs to the line of fighters against forces of darkness known as “Slayers.” Besides being named one of the greatest TV show of all time, it has also gained a cult following over the years.