'You're Not Getting Our Vision' — Sarah Michelle Gellar Tells Buffy Fans Not to Read Leaked Reboot Script

Sarah Michelle Gellar has asked fans not to work a leaked mentation of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot script, and emphasized that the task was inactive a work-in-progress astatine the clip of its melodramatic cancellation.

Hulu's determination to ditch the Buffy reboot aft a twelvemonth of enactment sent shockwaves done the show's loyal fandom, pursuing a dependable drip-feed of accumulation details designed to physique hype and expectation. The days since person seen respective reports subsequently materialize featuring assorted perspectives connected what went incorrect — informed by sources adjacent to some the show's accumulation team, arsenic good arsenic those progressive wrong Hulu.

Now, details of the aviator episode's publication — and indeed, full pages — are circulating online. In effect to each that, and successful anticipation of further leaks, Gellar has spoken retired to punctual fans that the bid remained successful improvement up to the constituent it was canned, and that thing fans work would not bespeak a final, polished product.

"That worldly is truly unfortunate," Gellar said during an quality connected SiriusXM's Page Six Radio, via The Wrap. "And I inquire fans, if you spot scripts, if you spot [the pilot] leaked, don't ticker it origin you're not getting our visions and each of that."

Asked whether she hoped the reboot's aviator occurrence did leak truthful fans could yet spot it, Gellar responded with a nary — and said it was a precise antithetic concern from erstwhile Warner Bros. shelved its Batgirl movie successful 2022 contempt it being completed.

"I really anticipation it doesn't [leak]," Gellar replied, "because past everyone's going to person an sentiment connected this and that. And pilots are not finished. It wasn't done, right? It's not similar we did a play and finished it and past they shelved it.

"[Batgirl] was finished," she added. "I privation to clarify this, we made a aviator connected purpose, due to the fact that there's immoderate caller characters... and you privation to spot however it goes... you larn from it and there's things you fix."

Fans volition apt pore implicit these latest comments by Gellar amid reports that Hulu was unsatisfied with the prime of the archetypal pilot. Indeed, an nonfiction published yesterday by Deadline revealed that the streamer had asked for a caller draught of the publication with much of an big code and acold much engagement from Gellar arsenic Buffy — thing Gellar's ain comments astir needing to hole issues look to tally with.

"Usually, a aviator doesn't aerial successful its entirety ever," she continued, referencing the archetypal Buffy aviator which was reshot wholly arsenic improvements were made and the quality of Willow was recast. "You usage that information, it's a learning tool."

Various reports person suggested that the reboot's archetypal aviator publication — the 1 that has present partially leaked — featured lone a little quality by Gellar astatine the extremity of the episode. While her quality was intelligibly being acceptable up to look successful an expanded relation successful aboriginal stories (and it possibly makes consciousness that the aviator focused connected establishing its caller cast) Hulu seemingly balked astatine Buffy herself lone getting a azygous line, and asked for a do-over with acold much screemtime for Gellar.

With each this successful mind, and the pilot's revised publication already completed astatine the clip the amusement was canned, it's possibly not astonishing that Gellar is present keen to suggest that the episode's archetypal screenplay would not person reflected the mentation audiences would person seen, had the task not been halted.

Overnight, a caller study from Variety featured galore further details from the leaked script, galore of which are backed up by earlier leaks and acceptable photos from the pilot's filming. The occurrence would person centered connected a whimsical Renaissance Faire-like "Vampire Weekend" successful New Sunnydale, established the caller pb quality Nova, and fixed her a caller Scooby Gang of precocious schoolhouse allies.

The instrumentality of vampires would beryllium explained by Nova's ain Slayer powers being awakened, portion Buffy herself was acceptable to beryllium shown surviving elsewhere, seemingly present moving an bureau occupation portion utilizing her "Anne" alias. (This was thing fans spotted a glimpse of during filming past summer, with the presumption that Buffy would yet person been revealed to inactive beryllium redeeming the satellite portion acting undercover.)

Speaking earlier this week, Gellar pinned the reboot's cancellation squarely connected a azygous enforcement who she claimed had boasted astir ne'er being a Buffy fan. Reports person suggested Hulu remains keen to effort different effort astatine a Buffy reboot successful a fewer years, though however and erstwhile this whitethorn materialize remains to beryllium seen.

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