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Sarah Michelle Gellar Calls Out Executive Over Buffy Reboot Cancellation
- On Friday, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar announced that Hulu scrapped the planned Buffy: New Sunnydale reboot, ending four years of development on the project.
- Gellar attributed the decision to a senior executive who openly disliked the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, creating an "uphill battle" for the production team since inception.
- The pilot featured 16-year-old actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong as a new Slayer, an attempt to honor the beloved property Gellar fought to revive with co-creator Chloé Zhao.
- Gellar received the cancellation news on Friday during the premiere of Ready or Not 2, coinciding with Best Director nominee Chloé Zhao's Oscars weekend.
- Disney owns the intellectual property, preventing the project from moving to another network, though Gellar and Zhao remain committed to preserving the original show's legacy.
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