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Sarah Michelle Gellar About A Buffy Movie

Monday 2 August 2004, by Webmaster

Sarah comments on the possibly of a Buffy movie and what she thought about "Chosen".

Sarah Michelle Gellar was asked recently, at Comic-Con, whether or not she envisions a “Buffy” film ever happening.

“A Buffy and Angel movie?...that’s actually one I haven’t heard before”, Gellar said, according to a transcript at SMGFan. “Um, you know, the answer to that is that I don’t know what’s going to happen with that. I know there’s been a lot of talk about it. You know, for those of you who don’t know this....there was a Buffy movie originally, and I spent the first two years of my show trying to explain to people “no, no, no, it’s different than the movie. It’s different than the movie”....and part of the reason the movie didn’t work was because Buffy was a story, in my opinion, that needed to be told over a period of time. And it works...to me it worked better when you spent time. And it wasn’t over so neatly. I wish the finale was two hours. It didn’t seem long enough to me. [crowd cheer in agreement] And I would be really fearful of putting all of that heart and all of those characters into two hours because I know that at some point there would be a letdown...whether Xander didn’t get featured enough, or Willow...or whatever it was. And um...if someone came to me and it looked like just the perfect two hours that I thought wouldn’t disappoint...then it would absolutely be something that I would consider, but I haven’t seen that yet”.

Don’t see it happening myself.


7 Forum messages

  • > Sarah Michelle Gellar About A Buffy Movie

    2 August 2004 17:49, by Maarten
    Maybe Sarah is right about that, although I really think Joss can do this (what can’t he do?!) And I would really love to see Xander, Willow and Buffy again! Anyway, I still hope that there’s going to be a Buffy movie, ’cause I really think Joss can pull this of!

  • > Sarah Michelle Gellar About A Buffy Movie

    2 August 2004 18:33, by aerialla

    Once again I think SMG is wrong. Anyone ever heard of Star Trek. Besides the Buffy/Angel thing is just about her, there are many extremely talented stars behind Buffy and Angel not just SMG.

    If anyone could come up with a plot driven story that would have a good ending and stay in touch with the characters and still only take 2 hours it would be Joss Whedon.

    I think Buffy ended well, but Angel’s ending sucked there are too many holes in that story line that I would like to see finished.

    I say if there are cast members from both shows that are interested in doing a movie or 4 and a good script is there then let them do it. They don’t need SMG’s permission to do Buffy as was proven with Angel.

  • > Sarah Michelle Gellar About A Buffy Movie

    2 August 2004 19:05, by Anonymous
    Very smart answer because to be honest i think that smg doesn’t want to play buffy any more

  • > Sarah Michelle Gellar About A Buffy Movie

    3 August 2004 04:35, by WhendonVerseFan

    WB asked JW to make movieS, so the point of 1 2 hour movie is moot, as for the cast, DB said he would do it if they "Rasied the bar" which they have done. SMG just said she would do it, JM, AA, and a few of the buffy cast have all showed there intrest in one way or the other..

    It seems to me that the only person who is holding this up is JW..

  • > Sarah Michelle Gellar About A Buffy Movie

    3 August 2004 22:38, by Anonymous
    Actually, I think shes right. Anyone else feel that Chosen seemed rushed? You need time for the characters, which at least we did get with Angel’s finale. I agree that to make it about the characters and not the action, you’d need to have a trilogy. And that might not happen for a few years, what with Joss busy with Firefly. And certainly you have enough material with Illyria, Spike, Giles, Willow, etc... But whatever happens, it will be because of Joss and what he needs to happen with his Buffyverse. Not Sarah, not David. If theres more to be told, he’ll tell it.

  • > Sarah Michelle Gellar About A Buffy Movie

    4 August 2004 19:11, by Anonymous
    OK I AM READY TO BRING OUT AN AXE!!!!

  • > Sarah Michelle Gellar About A Buffy Movie

    11 August 2004 18:08, by Anonymous
    If done right this could turn into something like what happened to Star Trek, where there were like 4 spin off’s a bunch of movies. The original show was back in the 60s, and now there’s still a spin off running (Star Trek: Enterprise) I think it would be really cool if they did the same thing with Joss’ Slayer Universe.