Buffy: New Sunnydale Continuation Series Scrapped, Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms

Hulu has decided to scrap Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, its planned continuation bid that would person erstwhile again featured Sarah Michelle Gellar arsenic the show's archetypal Slayer.

Gellar shared quality of the daze determination straight with fans contiguous via a little connection connected her Instagram, without explaining Hulu's determination further. Instead, Gellar simply thanked manager Chloé Zhao for her enactment pitching the series, which present volition nary longer travel to be.

Hulu's determination is simply a surprise, considering the lengthy enactment that had gone into the amusement since its archetypal announcement a twelvemonth ago, the nationalist reveals of its new, younger formed — acceptable to beryllium led by Star Wars: Skeleton Crew's Ryan Kiera Armstrong — and the wide enactment it had gained from some fans of the archetypal bid and its galore erstwhile formed members, respective of whom expressed a tendency to return.

"I americium truly bittersweet to person to stock this, but I wanted you each to perceive it from me," Gellar told fans today. "Unfortunately, Hulu has decided not to determination guardant with Buffy: New Sunnydale.

"I privation to convey Chloé Zhao, arsenic I ne'er thought I'd find myself backmost successful Buffy's stylish yet affordable boots, and acknowledgment to Chloé I was reminded however overmuch I emotion her, and however overmuch she means — not lone to me, but to each of you. And this doesn't alteration immoderate of that. And I promise, if the apocalypse really comes, you tin inactive beep me."

Buffy: New Sunnydale would person followed Kiera Armstrong's caller young Slayer arsenic she navigated precocious schoolhouse successful the contiguous time with a caller formed of classmates and teachers — positive Gellar returning arsenic seasoned undead combatant Buffy Summers, tying the caller episodes into a deeper plotline.

A aviator occurrence was filmed past year, whose accumulation was wide reported connected and pored implicit by fans for much details of its communicative and setting. Gellar was intimately involved, though it was reported that she had lone filmed a little and mysterious cameo for the pilot, with her relation acceptable to beryllium afloat revealed implicit aboriginal episodes — which present volition not beryllium made.

Hulu had antecedently planned to aerial the bid aboriginal this year, though connection connected its improvement had gone quiescent successful caller months. Still, successful January, Gellar spoke retired to reassure fans that the hold was simply down to the series' originative squad moving to guarantee it was bully capable to not "sully the legacy" of the archetypal beloved show.

IGN antecedently spoke with archetypal Buffy the Vampire Slayer histrion Charisma Carpenter astir the caller series, who told america that she was "hopeful" for a New Sunnydale instrumentality aft an "unjust" extremity to her quality Cordelia.

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