The news comes a year after the streamer ordered a pilot for the project, tentatively titled Buffy: New Sunnydale, with Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, a self-professed lifelong Buffy fan, directing from a script written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (Poker Face), notes Deadline.
The decision follows weeks of speculation about the fate of the pilot. Says the site, sources described it as “not perfect,” noting the Zhao’s sensibility may not have been the perfect match for the reboot.
An insider also posted on X that there had been speculation it wasn’t in the pilot’s best interest for Gellar to be absent for most of the episode, only…
‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com ’
