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We don’t know all that much about the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot and according to Sarah Michelle Gellar, we know even less than we thought we did. The actor, who is working as an executive producer on the reboot, spoke with Elite Daily recently and, among other things, revealed that the few characters whose details had been leaked were “fake.”
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Back in March, TVLine released what the site said was information on the new Slayer of the “Buffy” reboot as well as a couple of her friends. The new Slayer was supposedly named Nova and was described as brainier than Buffy, and would in some ways remind fans more of Alyson Hannigan’s Willow from the original series. Then there were Nova’s friends: Hugo who was described as an “out and proud nerd” from a wealthy family, and Gracie, who sounded like a younger version of Anthony Head’s Giles. Gracie was said to be a vampire expert and an acolyte of Buffy’s.
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According to Gellar, however, none of the information was factual. “Those are all fake characters,” Gellar said. “That thing that got released is all fake.”
Unfortunately, Gellar didn’t expand by revealing any actual characters from the reboot, but she did talk about why she finally decided it was time for a return for “Buffy”.
“Every pitch I heard was just like, ‘Let’s just do Buffy again.’ Why?” Gellar said. “But the passion that [Chloé Zhao] came to me with, what she wanted to do with the show and the character, and why Buffy is needed now — it was the first time where I thought, ‘OK, there’s a reason.'”
She also emphasized how long the reboot has been marinading and how committed she was to making sure the new show is everything it should be. “We’ve been at this for three-and-a-half, maybe four years now,” Gellar said. “We won’t do it unless it’s 100% right and there’s 100% a reason.”
In the meantime, with the rumors about the cast debunked, it just gives more room for more rumors to fly about who will or won’t be in the new version of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. There’s no word yet who, besides Gellar, may be returning from the original series. Considering all the vampire characters – like David Boreanaz’s Angel and James Marsters’s Spike – a lot of de-aging techniques will need to be utilized to make them look like ageless vampires.
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