Whedon-less Buffy Do-Over Might Be Headed To The Dumpster
A year or so ago, untested screenwriter Whit Anderson took up the task of rewriting Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To make her job especially hard, the limited rights being held meant that she couldn’t draw on, or be seen to wander into, the material Joss Whedon had created for the TV series. Anderson was bound to only being able to build upon the original Buffy movie.
Tough gig.
And it seems that, ultimately, it was too much for her. Hero Complex are reporting that Anderson turned in a script this summer but it “fell far short of expectations and, in the end, was rejected completely.”
Though the producers are apparently now looking for a new writer unafraid of reworking sacred lore (paging Darwyn Cooke?) it’s being suggested that some momentum has been lost and that, for now at least, the “threat” of a Buffy Summers denuded of her Joss, is fading.
I fully expect Anderson’s script to explode across the internet imminently. I’m fascinated to find out what she came up with.