Richard Donner, TV and Horror movie director...doing a SUPERMAN movie?
SMG to star in Buffy sequel series from Chloé Zhao
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James Gunn started in horror, too.
Plus, Whedon himself got his first producer credit on 'Parenthood', a slice of life family drama show. Is that what prepared him to executive produce a fantasy action dramedy series? He really hadn't directed anything that justified handing him the keys to the Avengers in 2012, either, but that seemed to turn out fairly acceptably for most involved.
Feels like the show would be best suited to drop the potentials becoming hundreds (thousands) of slayer stuff. If they even bother to address it all, have it be that their power ended up being temporary and faded away.
Maybe even have Buffy's powers diminished (or gone completely) and the only one who retained power was the actual slayer-lineage (Faith).
Buffy died in the S1 finale and the slayer line passed to Kendra who died and then Faith. Buffy died twice more after S1 and it never triggered a new slayer because the line had passed on.
Maybe make the consequences of having empowered all potentials that when the power faded so did Buffy's since she wasn't the real 'active slayer' anymore.
Having a show where you have hundreds or even thousands of others 'slayers' just as strong as Buffy was in S1 kinda makes the whole 'chosen one/slayer' thing a lot less important.
If Eliza Dushku was willing to cameo have Faith die in the opening and then the search for the next slayer (and first new slayer in like 20 years) happens and Buffy (living a normal life) is the one asked to help train the girl.
Maybe even have Buffy's powers diminished (or gone completely) and the only one who retained power was the actual slayer-lineage (Faith).
Buffy died in the S1 finale and the slayer line passed to Kendra who died and then Faith. Buffy died twice more after S1 and it never triggered a new slayer because the line had passed on.
Maybe make the consequences of having empowered all potentials that when the power faded so did Buffy's since she wasn't the real 'active slayer' anymore.
Having a show where you have hundreds or even thousands of others 'slayers' just as strong as Buffy was in S1 kinda makes the whole 'chosen one/slayer' thing a lot less important.
If Eliza Dushku was willing to cameo have Faith die in the opening and then the search for the next slayer (and first new slayer in like 20 years) happens and Buffy (living a normal life) is the one asked to help train the girl.
I don't think that's necessarily true at all. It's entirely down to what story you want to tell and how.
Hundreds of slayers doesn't have to mean an army of slayers all together. They could be spread out all over the world (arguably should be if the goal is to protect as many people as possible), there could be rival/rogue factions, there could be more slayers who don't want to fight than who are willing, they could be constantly targeted by an onslaught of demons or hunted by evil sorcerors, etc, etc.
And one could just as easily view reverting it to only one slayer as just copying rather than doing anything new.
I don't see where there would be a problem with the lead character being just one of hundreds or thousands of Slayers, just have them as a new Slayer in area where they're by themselves.
You keep mentioning a Turkish friend of yours, is there some signficance to Turkey with this series that I'm not aware of?
There's no way a guy who directed episodes of Gilligan's Island could ever direct a decent superhero movie, and don't even get me started on the guy who directed American Griffiti directing a sci-fi/fantasy movie.
We did see a pretty young kid get empowered, but still at least school age.
Like always with magic, it comes down to whatever the writers want, so presumably no. There's no reason the 'potential' in a potential slayer has to be there from birth.
Joss Whedon cut his teeth on Roseanne.
That would surely be a good thing, because it would mean the new series wouldn't be just a rehash of the original's tropes and ground rules, but would be something new. That was the whole point of the finale -- that it changed the way things had always been done and created a whole new status quo. It would be a betrayal of that ending, a failure of imagination, and an act of intellectual cowardice to hit a reset button on that revolutionary change and retreat to just rehashing what was done before.
Indeed, it would be worse than that, since giving the Potentials that power was a feminist allegory, breaking free of the domination of the patriarchy and giving a whole generation of girls the chance to be truly independent in a way a single Slayer couldn't be. Resetting that to the old status quo would be a horrible, horrible statement to send to the audience. The whole point of the final season is that being the "Chosen One" is a trap, not a privilege, because it means you're not the one making your own choices, but are having them made for you. So it should absolutely be abandoned in the new series.
I concur. Now being a "Slayer" means that you're "Chosen", not necessarilly a "Chosen One" since there would be millions of Super Powered Slayers all around the world.
But you were "Chosen" to have powers. What that means can be explored to the n-th degree in all sorts of ways.
The creative potential & opportunities could be endless.
No, my point is that being "chosen" is not a good thing, because it's passive -- it's something done to you rather than something you do yourself. It was a group of men thousands of years ago who chose to allow only one potential Slayer at a time to wield the power -- the choice was made for them. Buffy and Willow changed the rules so that every potential Slayer has the power to do with as she chooses.
I say this by looking at Chloé Zhao's work. Those who expect a series like the original TV series will be hugely disappointed. I also say this by looking at the fact that it is on Searchlight Television. I think Chloé Zhao will bring her own perspective and narrative style. Also, SMG will not want to repeat a work she has done before. That's why I think most of the cast will not be there. Oh, the writers also include writers from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. But I don't think they will be very effective.
It seems to me that it will be a bit like Nomadland shooting angle, a bit like Star Trek Picard narration style. Of course, it's lower budget.
It seems to me that it will be a bit like Nomadland shooting angle, a bit like Star Trek Picard narration style. Of course, it's lower budget.
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But who does the selection process of "Who gets Powers". Natural Lottery?
Granted every Slayer Potential is now a "Slayer". Great.
But how does one even fall into that category to begin with?
That part was never explained other than you were born a Potential.
But what decides what baby is worth of "Potentially" having powers?
That seems so random / arbitrary of a thing.
That's true of every attribute. We all have different potentials, different strengths that some of us are born with and others aren't. What matters is having the free choice to do with them as we wish, rather than being at the mercy of a "council" that says you have to do what they say. It's easier for such an authority structure to control one girl than millions.
True, having free will is very important; so I'm interested to see what happens to the world now that millions of girls around the world have "Slayer Powers".
That's what the first season will be about. The second season will be a rather sloppy storyline in which the only real purpose is to write out all the new characters introduced in the first season with the exception of the one who has a contract requiring them to stay, in order to pave the way for the third and final season which will have an even sloppier story to serve as the fanwank and memberberry engorged reunion for the Buffy cast.
Buffy- You know what I missed about the school library? The carpet.
