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FRAY seems like the obvious option to continue the Buffyverse as it were...Joss should be jumping on getting a movie or TV show going.
I don't know why they're bothering. Does anyone want this remake? The only cast anyone is interested in seeing is that of the TV show, and the only guy they want to write it is Joss Whedon. This whole project is made of pure fail.
It's already kind of been explained why it's happening...I wouldn't worry about it too much. It's not like any real hardcore Buffy fan would go see it. When it bombs it'll go away.
Obviously from day one this whole notion was nothing more whatsoever than a "quick, let's cash-in as much as possible on the Twilight-Tru Blood-Vampire Diaries etc craze" with any old vampire shit we can get our hands on.
As opposed to having an actual good idea.
Aren't they remaking Near Dark? I think I read that somewhere, its just more lazy Hollywood producers unable to think of anything original.
The main reason I'd be opposed to it (apart from the No Joss thing) is the show only ended in 2003. I mean with last years Star Trek, yes the franchise was still going until 2005, but really the movie is a reboot of TOS, which ended in 1969, 40 years ago, so fair enough. Rebooting something that ended six years ago (as this was first rumoured last year) is just redonkulous.
The only way I could see this working is a remake of the original movie, more akin to Joss' original idea, and written and directed by him too. That could be pretty neat, but is it really necessary?
As opposed to having an actual good idea.
Aren't they remaking Near Dark? I think I read that somewhere, its just more lazy Hollywood producers unable to think of anything original.
The main reason I'd be opposed to it (apart from the No Joss thing) is the show only ended in 2003. I mean with last years Star Trek, yes the franchise was still going until 2005, but really the movie is a reboot of TOS, which ended in 1969, 40 years ago, so fair enough. Rebooting something that ended six years ago (as this was first rumoured last year) is just redonkulous.
The only way I could see this working is a remake of the original movie, more akin to Joss' original idea, and written and directed by him too. That could be pretty neat, but is it really necessary?
I'm actually surprised Joss hasn't tried to push Fray harder. I mean, if you think about it, Melaka's story has more blockbuster potential than Buffy's.
^ That's true...I think that if Joss really wanted to do a Buffy movie we would have had one by now, honestly. The season eight comics (and season nine next year) are pretty much the closest thing we'll probably get to a continuation of the Buffy cannon. Again I'd love a "Fray" movie, one of my side fan fic projects is to do an adaption of "Fray". You guys know that Mel returned earlier this year in an arc in season eight?
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But that sort of fits into its blockbuster potential.
But that sort of fits into its blockbuster potential.
With all the Twilight talk I've been wondering how much they are "remaking" this movie. I wonder if they are going to just keep the title and try to reinvent wholesale.
That seems like a viable property though, it certianly fits in better with the current vampire chic. It probably fits better today than it did in 1987, it's not a very 80's-ish movie.
Yes. Melaka Fray's story does have perhaps even more blockbuster potential than Buffy Summers, if done with a big budget.
I'd love to see the Slayerverse opened up even more. If not Fray, then one of the other Slayers, past, or future.
I'd hate to see them make this movie during the "let's make a Vampire Movie that kids will like" time. And then see it crash because people were expecting another Twilight-like movie. Of coarse, if it has the right characters it would have a cult following in DVD sales, but it wouldn't be the same.
I'd rather them wait till the current craze is over (hopefully the Twilight thing blows over) before doing a movie that will surely bring in all the right fans.
Surely if these Producers want to bank on the current "vampires" they would load up on their own glitter an entirely different BtVS that all the new teens would love; glitter and all.
I'd rather them wait till the current craze is over (hopefully the Twilight thing blows over) before doing a movie that will surely bring in all the right fans.
Surely if these Producers want to bank on the current "vampires" they would load up on their own glitter an entirely different BtVS that all the new teens would love; glitter and all.
^And if Joss Whedon was involved... I'd go see it.
^Yup.
I've seen the movie, series, and unaired pilots. I've commented in a previous post on how the Buffyverse has evolved from mediocrity to what we had in 2005 with the end of Angel. In regards to a reboot, I could see a redo for the film (1992). The 64,000 dollar question would be in what time era would it take place (1996 or 2011)? If Whedon was back with the original cast that would be ideal. As for plot, they could have a senior partner from Wolfram and Hart reconstitute Sunnydale and Mayor Wilkins. The mayor seemed like a man who would have carried some form of casualty insurance for himself and his pride and joy hellhole. As for why Sunnydale and the mayor are back 12 years later, maybe the mayor had a time delay provision to throw his enemies off. The same magic that was used when Connor had his memories altered could once again apply to the rest of the world as to how Sunnydale is magically back.
By the way, I don't think Whedon had planned to burn down the gym in the movie. I saw the unaired pilot and that did not mention the gym burning. It mentioned she got kicked out for "fighting". Thankfully that pilot was rejected.
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By the way, I don't think Whedon had planned to burn down the gym in the movie. I saw the unaired pilot and that did not mention the gym burning. It mentioned she got kicked out for "fighting". Thankfully that pilot was rejected.
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CobraCommander, Whedon included Buffy burning down the gym in most of the early drafts for the film, and only deleted it when the Kuzuis threatened to pull the funding plug. The line about Buffy burning down the gym is in the series because he always wanted her to have done so, and the series Buffy actually did.
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