Buffy The Vampire Slayer

LOCATION: Buffy Redux?

THE SKINNY: Marti Noxon has a new series at ABC starting this fall called BROTHERS AND SISTERS and was on-hand at an ABC party to promote her new show. While talking with the talented writer/producer, iF managed to find out what might have been beyond season seven for BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and some possible future plans to revisit that universe.

iF MAGAZINE: What would have happened if BUFFY had gone into an eighth season?

MARTI NOXON: Joss and I were so, so, so tired that we didn’t think about it. I had way more ideas for the FAITH show, than I did for the BUFFY show. That was something that was more alive for me at that point and I could see that show. In terms of, we would have broken the model and done something new, but the BUFFY model felt so tapped out and we were so afraid of the show not staying at the level of quality that we hopefully maintained for most of the seasons. I think that was why it was over for me because I didn’t have another thought at that moment, and Joss didn’t have another thought. We were thinking however, "If you put Faith and Spike in a show..."

iF: How close to actually doing the FAITH series before you knew it wasn’t going to happen?

NOXON: It was a combination of things. Eliza Dushku was committed to something else; she had just taken TRU CALLING. She wasn’t sure she wanted to keep playing Faith, and then the series got cancelled several different times.

iF: Would you ever feel like visiting the “BUFFY-verse” again via comics perhaps?

NOXON: If I had the time and the energy I definitely would. It would be fun to put my head back there. Joss and I talk all the time, so you never know. It would be nice to write with Joss again, and we all loved him.