Joss Whedon Says "no Thanks" To New 'buffy' Movie

Cinematical staff, Cinematical
Fri, 06/12/2009 - 8:32am

Now that we've launched these two new genre sites -- Horror Squad and ScFi Squad -- there's going to be a good amount of content over there that's not over here. Like this post from SciFi Squad about Joss Whedon and how he was offered the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, but turned it down.Those fans all up in arms over the planned big-screen Buffy the Vampire Slayer remake will either find comfort or disgust in learning that Joss Whedon was offered a chance to reboot his own original idea, and he turned it down presumably after already learning his lesson on the first film.

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Topics: buffy the vampire slayer casting & development joss whedon remake

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