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“So… you might have heard some news this week, but I realize you haven’t heard from me,” Gellar began. She then explained how she got involved in this proposal — producer Gail Berman persuaded her to have a meeting with acclaimed filmmaker Chloé Zhao, who wanted to pitch her Buffy idea. Gellar admitted that she was excited about the idea of working with Zhao, but she still had her doubts about the idea of a Buffy revival.
“I told Gail that I just didn’t see a way for the show to exist again. We’d always been aligned on that, but this time I heard something different in her voice,” Gellar wrote. She found a friend and fellow superfan in Zhao, and agreed to continue discussing this idea further. She explained, “These conversations did, in fact, continue over the next few years and eventually we added the incredible Nora and Lilla Zuckerman to our little tribe until ultimately, one day, we landed on an idea.”
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“I have always listened to the fans and heard your desire to revisit Buffy and her world, but it was not something I could do unless I was sure we would get it right,” Gellar went on. “This has been a long process, and it’s not over yet. I promise you, we will only make this show if we know we can do it right. And I will tell you that we are on the path there. I feel so lucky to be on this journey with these four unbelievably talented women, all of whom love Buffy as much as I do. And as much as you do. Thank you to all the fans who never stopped asking for this. This will be for you.”
The Buffy revival is in the works, but it hasn’t been ordered to series yet. In the meantime, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel are both streaming now on Hulu.
