If people are up in arms about the new Buffy movie without Whedon and the Scooby gang, you all should do the same if the new Alien movie doesn’t have either Weaver or designs by or influenced by H.R Giger’s work. Why? Because IT’S JUST NOT ALIEN!
Will it involve Giger or Weaver? Perhaps, perhaps not, but I’m hoping it does at least either one. If it’s a prequel, I’m not sure how Weaver would come in to play, I mean it might even be… *shock horror*… without Ripley right?
As for Buffy, I’m keeping my mind open. I mean the Kuzuis are probably seeing green after the success of Twilight and the popularity of True Blood, but Buffy would never have taken off the way it did had the genius that is Joss Whedon wasn’t heavily involved in the TV series. The whole adolescent vampire scene may not even be popular today if it wasn’t for BtVS TV series. For Buffy to be remade simply because Twilight was popular is rather ridiculous and obviously it’s less about the story. The thing about Twilight is, it’s pretty much Buffy repackaged.
Buffy will always be Buffy and the Scooby Gang.
This new movie without Whedonverse would be a completely different Buffy. In my eyes, it may just be another teen-vampire flick that happens to share the same name.
On the flip side, this may spark comparisons with the James Bond series. No Connery = No Bond? Hey, Daniel Craig made it work, so did Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan. In fact, this new Buffy could be the Daniel Craig version (or it could be Timothy Dalton or George Lazenby).
Most people seemed to want this reboot to fail out of their love of the brilliant and funny Buffy universe that Joss Whedon created. I’d like to see it first.
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