Buffy the Vampire Slayer was my favorite show while in high school. I had a bunch of friends who watched it and, like all of them, when we first became aware of the show we were all quite reticent to dive in. First of all, the title is simply ridiculous and it just didn't seem like a series that a fifteen year old guy would like. All it took was one viewing, however, and I was hooked. There had never been anything like it – it was a crazy comedy/horror/action/high-school drama hybrid that, somehow, spoke to me as a high schooler more so than any other high-school set series (to be fair, I had yet to discover
Freaks and Geeks). Also, a teenage boy has no choice but to fall in love with
Sarah Michelle Gellar after watching Buffy. I'd be lying if I said that had nothing to do with my fandom. The Paley Festival hosted a panel/reunion with the
Buffy the Vampire Slayer team last night in Los Angeles. This is what went down.
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sosgg said:
as much as i'd love a buffy movie, it's all talk. you can't believe a word joss whedon says, he's cheats hi...
Addicted2TV said:
This is the man who was able to do Serenity. Would it be such a stretch for him to pull off a Buffy Movie? ...
yvlea said:
Yeah, I want to see a Buffy Movie. And I want all the Cast-Members of the Series back in the movie, Angel t...
On hand for the panel were cast members Sarah Michelle Gellar,
Nicholas Brendon,
Charisma Carpenter,
Emma Caulfield,
Seth Green,
Amber Benson,
James Marsters and
Michelle Trachtenberg, with producers/writers David Greenwalt and Marti Noxon. Of course, Buffy mastermind Joss Whedon was in attendance as well.
Alyson Hannigan, for some reason, wasn't on hand. Neither were
David Boreanaz or
Anthony Stewart Head.
According to TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, the worst part of the panel was Nicholas Brendon, aka Xander. He apparently constantly interrupted people, made a lot of bad jokes and talked for extended periods of time. Since I wasn't there, I don't know the extent to which this is true.
Gellar said she was distraught and had to be “talked down off the ledge” while filming parts of the sixth season, which saw Buffy's character take a dark turn.
Whedon knocked heads with executives over the Willow goes lesbian storyline. At one point, he even threatened to quit, and that's when the executives backed down. He would love to do a Buffy movie, but a lot of things would have to happen for the movie to come to fruition. It's not likely.
Should they make a Buffy movie?
-Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Senior Writer
(Image Courtesy of TV Guide)