Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Q. With Joss Whedon off “Wonder Woman” but about to launch Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s 8th season as a comic series,I got to thinking.In a recent interview at VH1,he said he still would be interested in working with SMG and DB on a ‘Buffy’ movie and the season 8 comics wouldn’t prevent that however unlikely it is to happen.Now it seems CGI Animated movies are all the rage. With the upcoming ‘TMNT’,which SMG herself is voicing April O’Neal, and the announcement of a CGI Animated “Ghostbusters 3” with the original cast back doing their character’s voices, what do you think of a CGI Animated ‘Buffy Movie’ with the cast doing the voices? It would be an easier way of bringing all the cast back including the leads and possibly more enticing, as well as give even more freedom then a live action movie to go wild with larger scaled things. Do you think this is an interesting idea? I would figure, the Buffyverse would be perfect for this. They tried to do a traditional animated series but not a CGI Animated movie. Or what about a CGI Animated Fray movie based off Joss Whedon’s futuristic slayer comic miniseries. Come to think of it, Fray would probably be even more perfect for this format, wouldn’t it? - Nila

A. Both would be good. I would totally see a “Buffy” CGI film - and I can see the fans really getting wet over it. Thing is, I don’t see Joss being able to coax Sarah Michelle Gellar or David Boreanaz back to reprise their characters (even if they are just voice-overs); both of them seem to be glad to have seen the back of the characters, and have been pretty vocal in their disinterest of returning to do any kind of ‘Buffy’ movie or telemovie. Hopefully, they’ll come around in the near future and agree to do something else in the ‘Buffy-verse’ but in the meantime, I think they’re quite happy not living near the Hell Hole. Having said that, I don’t quite understand why the network didn’t go for the “Spike” or “Willow” telemovies, fans would’ve really got into those - especially the ‘Spike’ one - and both could’ve revived the whole Buffy-verse. If they didn’t get off the ground though, you can only imagine how much work it would be to do something that includes the title characters. Maybe a “Fray” TV series, though?