Writer Monica Owusu-Breen Clarifies Some Things About The Buffy “Reboot”
Last week, news filtered out of SDCC that ‘Midnight, Texas’ writer, Monica Owusu-Breen, was working with Joss Whedon on a reboot of beloved series ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’. Now, Owusu-Breen has taken to Twitter to try and ease the minds of fans a little. It seems the word “reboot” in those initial reports might be misplaced…
This was her statement:
For some gene writers, it’s Star Wars. Buffy The Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars.
Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight, and struggle and slay.
There is only one Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel… They can’t be replaced. Joss Whedon’s brilliant and beautiful series can’t be replicated. I wouldn’t try to.
But here we are, twenty years later…
And the world seems a lot scarier.
So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer…
And that’s all I can say.
— monicaowusubreen (@monicabreen) July 26, 2018
To us, here at Geektown, that’s sounding a lot more like a continuation of the Buffyverse, not a reboot of the original characters, which seems like an infinitely better idea. As you may remember, the show finished with the power of the Slayer being spread out across all the potential Slayers in the world. The Buffyverse was then continued in comic book form after the tv series ended, with the gang getting into various scrapes after the Slayers are marked as a terrorist group.
However, we also know, at some point, the power of the Slayer seems to converge back again into one person. This is due to the Buffyverse title, Fray, which follows a Slayer set way further in the future. So it’s entirely possible to create a new show where the power has been reverted back into only being in one person. I mean… It’s even possible we could be getting a Fray series, but at this point, we just don’t know.
Assuming it isn’t a Fray series and is set in current time, this option, rather than an actual reboot, could allow for cameos from all the original cast to appear in the new show, should they wish to come back. As Buffy herself is actually outside of the Slayer line – due to her dying at the hands of The Master, then being revived – she could also appear. Faith though, being the actual Slayer in the Slayer line, might not be so lucky…
So there you have it. It looks like this is a new Buffyverse series, not an actual reboot of the original. The ‘[Insert name] The Vampire Slayer’ series is still in the early stages at the moment, but we’ll bring you more as we get it.
