Gellar Asked on Possible BUFFY Return

An Open Letter To Sarah Michelle Gellar:


Sarah, why avoid doing Buffy??? In place of doing a Buffy feature film or films, you choose to make various horror movies that are beneath you, your great talent, and your true fans. I am addressing this letter to you, and on this very web site, because I know that Freddie, your husband, reads such web sites.

The longer you ignore the creation that made you a star...and the more time that passes...robs you of the window to not only re-explore Buffy...but to truly bask in the glory of the success of such an iconic character. Your friends may have once assailed you for taking such a role, but I promise you, if they had known what a huge and respected success it eventually would turn out to be, each of them would have killed for the role.

Time to go home, and show the pretenders to your clown (Kill Bill 1 & 2, Alias, The New Bionic Woman...etc.), how it's done!!!

Signed, Metal Water

Pretenders to your clown? Classic freudian slip. To imply that Buffy spawned the birth of the uberchick is ridiculous, and I have no clue why Kill Bill is on that list. It was inspired by far cooler things then Buffy.

Well said, metalwater --- and 100% true.

Gellar's statements that "Buffy didn't work as a movie" call for a slap upside the head. The movie that hit screens with Kristy Swanson bore little resemblance to Joss Whedon's original script. A film written and directed by Joss with little to no studio interference would be a very different story.

Sarah, as one who unfortunatly saw 'The Grudge', 'Scooby-Doo', and 'Southland Tales' PLEASE take my advice: GO BACK TO BUFFY. metalwater's right. The garbage you're doing now is beneath you, and as we all well know, "From Beneath you it devours!"

Very well said metalwater.... except for that bit about clowns. I'm not quite sure where that came from. I couldn't agree more though. She needs to face it - this is her legacy and it's a GOOD legacy! It got her where she is today. I would think, if the script is acceptable (and I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem), that Buffy would be on bored out of gratitude to Joss, the cast, and her fans.

Why are you guys doggin' on Sarah? It's not like she's the single reason we're not seeing new Buffy film/tv projects. After seven years, most of the people involved with the show were ready for a break and to try different things...who could blame them? I'd love to see more of Buffy, but let's not forget we also have a recent Whedon comic series dubbed "the official season eight"...so it's not like we can't get our fix.

I agree with metalwater that she should revisit Buffy, at least as feature films. Most of the people involved in the series have not found the success they enjoyed while on the series, that's as good a reason as any to return to it.
I also agree with Necronomitron about that comparison. I don't know what makes you think she started this trend. She wasn't the first or the best at being the hot, cool chick that kicks ass.

There SHALL BE NO dogging OF SMG !!! I love buffy and sarah - cant wait to see southland tales - and then alice - i would love to see more buffy and have her move into a mother with a daughter as a slayer also and all the other potentials that became slayers as well - there can be a major movie after sunnydale - serenity worked fine on screen !!

SMG gave seven years of her life to BUFFY. If she wants to do other things now, I'm not inclined to hold it against her. I mean, it's not like she pulled a David Caruso and walked off the show after one season . . . .

I loved Buffy the show. I thought the cast was great. That said, I don't think many of them were really A-List talent. Not knocking them - Alyson got me to watch How I Met Your Mother and I love that show (but largely for Barney / Neil Patrick Harris) and David got me to watch Bones, so they do tend to influence what else I'll try.

I have mixed feelings about a return to Buffy at this stage - I'm happy with the comics and would rather see Whedon do something new - oh wait he IS. :)

Buffy did really set into pop culture the kick-ass female character much the same way that Sigourney Weaver did back in Alien. The character is very influential.
that said
as usual MW wants to point out how something he loves is ripped off by things he hates. It's his M.O., really.

To break it down -

Kill Bill was influenced by the crappy Honk Kong action films and 70's revenge grindhouse flicks that QT watched.

Alias was more Bond than Buffy, seriously. The similarity was a female lead who could fight. Wooo.

Bionic Woman, if I'm not mistaken, is a remake of an early show that was a spinoff of an even eariler show (Bionic Woman, Six Million Dollar Man, respectively.)

The one show that, at the time, felt to me like it was cashing in on Buffy's success was Dark Angel. Storyline, while futuristic instead of modern, had many similarities.

If you REALLY want to blame Buffy for starting something, I suggest you go to the romance section of your local book store and count how many of the books are "Paranormal Romance." Yep, sex with vampires and werewolves and the like. Not saying the idea didn't exist PRIOR to Buffy, it DID, but the explosion of it I'd wager is largely based on the women who grew up liking Buffy for the tragic romance.

Sarah is an adequate performer. Not much of an actress. She's not the type of actress who I think "Gee, I've *got* to see that new Sarah Michelle Gellar movie".

Buffy is an ideal role for her. She doesn't have to do much acting... gets to keep things light and comic.

So I would be for a new Buffy movie. Just with a better stunt double. And retroactively getting rid of Dawn-y. I'd pay to see that twice.