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SMG to star in Buffy sequel series from Chloé Zhao

It appears that the pilot synopses was accurate - photos are doing the rounds seeming to be showing a fun fair celebrating "Old Sunnydale", complete with fun fair version of the old Sunnydale High - faithfully recreated as a house of horrors type attraction, presumably from the "Vampire Weekend" alluded to in the spoiler synopses of the pilot.
 
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Mudd said:
Charisma Carpenter Addresses Whether She Will Be In ‘Buffy’ Reboot

Pity.

Carpenter or Marsters or Hannigan might have been reasons to watch an episode of this thing.
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Thing is, its technically still only at pilot stage - though I would be very surprised if it wasn't picked up for series, given that the opp to nab SMG back as Buffy is likely to be a one time offer. They'd be mad not to grab this with both hands, but I guess they'll want to see the pilot first.

It may well be that they're concentrating on the pilot right now, with ideas for the series should it be picked up being generated but in no position to be firmed up. Just because Charisma (apparently) hasn't been approached yet, doesn't mean she won't be.

I'd imagine they'll spend some time building up the new narrative before delving too much into the past - but I would still be unsurprised if another legacy character made a pilot appearance!
 
Let's see if it goes the way of the original Buffy pilot. Shot a second time with just one two* actors replaced. ;)

*I had forgotten that they also replaced Stephen Tobolowsky as Principal Flutie.
 
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SMG should give up that fight. “Reboot” has come to mean all restarts of a property. Sequels, prequels, reimaginings, continuations…all reboots.
 
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SMG should give up that fight. “Reboot” has come to mean all restarts of a property. Sequels, prequels, reimaginings, continuations…all reboots.
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It always has, really, at least in industry-insider usage. It may have originally been coined in comics to mean a reinvented continuity (I forget which comic, but I looked it up once), but insiders generally used it for any revival of a dormant property, regardless of continuity. But the general public decided somewhere around the new Battlestar Galactica that it was forbidden to use the word "reboot" to refer to anything but a new continuity. That's what most laypeople understand it to mean, so what Gellar is saying is clear enough.
 
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It always has, really, at least in industry-insider usage. It may have originally been coined in comics to mean a reinvented continuity (I forget which comic, but I looked it up once), but insiders generally used it for any revival of a dormant property, regardless of continuity. But the general public decided somewhere around the new Battlestar Galactica that it was forbidden to use the word "reboot" to refer to anything but a new continuity. That's what most laypeople understand it to mean, so what Gellar is saying is clear enough.
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I am curious as to when the industry started using the term. Didn't seem to be common in the 20th Century.
 
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