Buffy to be rebooted??? WTF?
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090526/film_nm/us_buffy_1

Star Trek having a reboot I can understand but Buffy does not need a reboot! :ohwell:

I don't see why not. It was rebooted for the TV series, why not do it again.

Well, the movie sucked... and the TV series did make reference to events that happened in the movie, so I wouldn't quite call it a reboot. But yeah, I'm not so sure I want to see a new Buffy movie either.

A movie about a different Slayer, however, might be cool.

Maybe Buffy will be attractive this time.

originality is dead REBOOT EVERYTHING!

this might get me shot but I kind of hope we can see a black Buffy. Or an asian Buffy. Because really I'm getting tired of the white, teenie bopper, valley girl buffy that we've seen mostly.

I actually kind of liked the movie. (Don't get me wrong, I much prefer the show.) It had some sort of camp appeal to me, I dunna. Maybe it's one of those "so bad it's good" movies for me. It always made me laugh.

I've never even seen the show or the movie, and couldn't give sh*t either way, but this is the dumbest thing I've heard today.

Isn't the name Buffy itself a "white, teenie bopper, valley girl" name?

Don't get too worked up about this. It sounds like this is definitely just politics... TPTB are trying to lowball Whedon and they're playing hardball for cash (which isn't too favorable in Whedon's corner, with one failed TV show after another lately).

A betting man would bet on Whedon, and as soon as he's aboard he's bringing Gellar and everybody for a proper Buffy movie.

She wasn't even a teeny bopper, so that's retarded. And it's like not Buffy has been around lately, so I don't see how you can tire of something that isn't there.

well, if it's going to have nothing to do with the original movie and/or the series, then screw it! if they want to make another movie, make a damn sequel! a sequel to the original movie and the series, and include everyone. this just sounds like a bad idea to me. and if Whedon chooses not to participate, all the more reason for it not to be done

Well a more serious Buffy would work on the big screen.

I don't get why it's so dumb.

Anyway, there have been Slayers of all different shapes, sizes, ethnicities, whatever (see Kendra, the two Slayers Spike killed, and the Slayers who popped up all over the world after Willow did her white witch mojo on the Fray battle axe), so it wouldn't be unheard of.

And hey, Brodie, I thought SMG was kinda cute at the beginning of Buffy! Not so much when the show moved to UPN and she stopped eating altogether, but yeah.

For what foreseeable reason would a change of ethnicity for the main character of a series be even remotely sensible? What purpose would it serve? Is making her black going to add some new layer of depth to the character? Doubtful. Unless you consider the "hilarious" ethnic stereotypes that are sure to make an appearance in such a case character depth. That's why it's dumb. It's an arbitrary difference made for the sake of what? To appeal to a different demographic? To give it a nice coat of "ethnic diversity is awesome!" paint?

I've got one for you, give me one reason why it isn't a dumb idea and I'll change my tune.

http://www.japanprobe.com/march06/gospellers/jolson.jpg

" nice coat of "ethnic diversity is awesome!" paint"


I see what you mean.

Somehow I doubt that, given the volatile nature of your reaction, but here goes! :lol:

Simply put, they're changing almost everything else -- they're getting rid of the supporting characters, etc. -- so I don't see why it would be dumb to change one more thing. Without all of the background and depth that she developed with her friends and during various battles, Buffy isn't really a character but a premise: teenage girl who fights vampires. From that starting point, her ethnicity doesn't really make a whit of difference one way or another.

Maybe none! But not serving a grand purpose doesn't make it dumb -- for that, it'd have to serve a dumb purpose and/or bring about a dumb result. It wouldn't necessarily do either of those things (though, as with anything else, there's always the possibility that they'd screw it up).

They'd have to change quite a bit more than Buffy's skin color to give depth to the character -- like I said, the character didn't really have a ton of depth to begin with (which is kinda why the movie and the 1st season of Buffy weren't all that great) -- but yeah, a change like that could help to give this new Buffy some depth. And it could help to broaden the target audience and diversify the cast. I don't regard those as bad or dumb outcomes.

But in any case, I was just saying that it wouldn't be dumb to turn "teenage white girl who fights vampires" into "teenage minority girl who fights vampires," since they're apparently changing everything else and there's nothing about the character/premise that requires her skin to be a specific color. If that's the dumbest thing you'd heard all day, I'd love to live in your world. :P

I read the last line of your post, because I couldn't be bothered to read the rest of it, especially considering I really don't care one way or the other. But yes, yesterday, that was the dumbest thing I had heard at that point. I should note that I had been working all day, though, so I still had the rest of the night.

Wasn't Pee Wee Herman the second-in-command vampire in the movie?

Yes....and he's hysterical.

Hell of a death scene, too. :P

Changing a character's race just for the sake of it is just plain stupid.

Quite a few recognizable actors were in the movie. Luke Perry during his peak years, Donald Sutherland (funny how his son, 24 star Keifer Sutherland, played in his own vampire movie called The Lost Boys) David Arquette, who would later become a fan favorite in the Scream series, and Oscar winner Hilary Swank had roles in the movie as well.

For all we know he is still dying :-P

What, the vampire or Pee Wee's career?

just as Skeletor is still falling from the movie

But... they showed him at the bottom of the pit in the movie...

both! :lol: :D

This is why some people fail at jokez.

the tv show was cool, but this sounds like it will suck

Yeah, he's STILL down there, waiting for them to make a friggin' sequel.

which if they're thinking of rebooting Buffy, why not reboot He-man. the first movie was kinda bad

I'm actually kind of surprised, what with all of these remakes and reboots going on, that Hollywood hasn't tried to make live action films of He-Man or She-Ra.

They ARE rebooting He-Man....

She-Ra? omg, i could only imagine who they thing would be good in her boots. likely someone completely terrible

hm, i rest my case then

I know this is a bit off topic, but I heard they are re-making the 1986 Disney classic Flight of the Navigator.

http://www.thecinemapost.com/2009/05...the-navigator/

Around the corner will probably be other 80 classics like The Goonies, Willow, Gremlins, Ghostbusters............

He-Man got his reboot in a animated series and new toyline.

Don't think the world need an other He-Man movie

Again, they ARE REBOOTING HE-MAN. It was already mentioned in this thread. Plus there was a new toyline sold to collectors only that started earlier this year.

of course, cause one reboot was not enough:lol:

thought the classic toy line was just made as collector figures, since they're pretty much looks like the old ones with better articulation