When is the reboot?

[WILLOW23023]

When is there going to be a reboot?

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

I'm no insider, but based on my observations, Buffy has a very complex rights issues. The Movie rights are owned by the Kuzuis, the currently divorced couple that produced and directed the film. The TV rights are owned by Sandollar, Dolly Parton's production company. The rights to the elements, characters and scenario that didn't originate in the film, but rather in the TV show, probably belong to 20th Century Fox/Disney, but that would probably be subject to dispute. Mutant Enemy, and the successors to the WB and UPN probably have some interest in the series, although it's probably silent interest. Warner Media was reported as leasing the film rights at one point.

So, to make a Buffy movie, you need to get the film rights. To make a TV show, you need the TV rights. To use Angel, or Xander or Giles, you also need the rights for the elements from the TV show from Disney, as well probably paying off everyone else involved. And you will probably have to pay off Joss too, just to keep him from going Alan Moore on the project.

Or, you Bing up a YA Urban Fantasy writter, but the film rights for a Buffy like property, and churn out a couple films about that. Again, that's my impression of things.

 

[thrasherpix]

With the trash I've come to expect, and being surprised at how good some of the amateur movies and animations (technically fanfic) are, I'm hoping fans will make more movies and their own series. Eventually Darth Mickey and the others will eventually step in to stop that, so I hope more rivals to YouTube pop up in the meantime, one that can't easily be bought out or legislated against.

Put another way, I'm hoping fans will reboot it somehow rather than one of the major corporations. And no telling how long that will take.

Hmm, I did enjoy this (this could easily be changed to connect with the characters if the pic of her family was say Gunn and Anne, who named their daughter Buffy in honor of the legendary Buffy, that's a race switch I'd easily get into as it's not actually a switch done primarily for controversy to spark free publicity, and she'd be her own character with her own tone and story and development, but at the same time, something to be said for just starting fresh with new characters and location):

 

[NotASlayer]

Pretty soon, the technology will exist at home to do your own stuff featuring the original actors as they looked back then.

Which, never mind the legalities, is getting disturbing.

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

Sadly, watch attractive people pretend to have sex may been half the viewing audience.