Buffy The Vampire Slayer Star Sarah Michelle Gellar Describes The New Series As a 'Continuation' — And Confirms Its Title

Sarah Michelle Gellar, prima of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has described the franchise's upcoming caller Hulu bid arsenic a "continuation" of the archetypal — thing that inspired its caller name.

Speaking connected the ShutUpEvan podcast, Gellar said that the caller bid was champion described not arsenic a reboot oregon adjacent arsenic a afloat sequel, but arsenic a continued mentation of the classical bid that primitively aired from 1997 to 2003. Saying that, however, the caller episodes volition travel with a caller title.

"It's not a sequel, it's not a reboot," Gellar said. "It's a continuation. I deliberation so, due to the fact that wherever she is present successful this satellite and what this satellite is that Buffy lives successful — with her, without her — [that] benignant of exploration... It's not a reboot, it's not picking up with each the aforesaid characters close away. That's wherefore the sanction was adjacent important to me, y'know, successful Buffy: New Sunnydale. It's Buffy, but it's besides thing else."

Word that the bid would beryllium titled arsenic Buffy: New Sunnydale has antecedently been rumored, though Gellar's remark serves arsenic confirmation this is the authoritative sanction for the upcoming show.

Filming for the Buffy: New Sunnydale aviator took spot past August, with Gellar herself reprising her iconic relation alongside a caller formed of caller characters. Young histrion Ryan Kiera Armstrong plays the series' lead, a miss reportedly named Nova. Other formed members play her classmates and teachers astatine a rebuilt Sunnydale High School.

The task has been spearheaded by Marvel's Eternals manager Chloé Zhao, who convinced an initially wary Gellar to instrumentality for the task and service alongside her arsenic an enforcement producer.

"I ever said I would ne'er bash it, and I person learned a precise hard acquisition successful beingness there's a crushed wherefore that saying is 'never accidental never'," Gellar continued. "So I volition devour my words and I'm good with that. I've learned my lesson, that's wholly fair. I ne'er saw however to bash it. I ne'er saw however and wherefore it could beryllium arsenic bully and be... I'm not trying to beryllium better, I conscionable privation to clasp and grant the representation of what we've created.

"I cognize sometimes that representation is conflicted for radical astir however they're expected to consciousness astir it," she added. "But a batch of radical enactment their blood, sweat and tears into making what I deliberation is an incredibly large amusement and I'm incredibly arrogant of it."

While past summertime was marked by a flurry of casting enactment and acceptable leaks, connection connected the project's advancement quietened during 2025's last months, and the it's unclear what the timeline is for further episodes to beryllium filmed oregon broadcast. Gellar noted the ongoing hold for fans to perceive more, but said it was much important to not unreserved and "sully the legacy" of the archetypal show.

"We're inactive moving connected that wherefore and how," Gellar concluded. "I cognize we unrecorded successful a nine wherever we privation binging, we privation it now. I cognize this seems similar it's taking a agelong time, and that's due to the fact that unless we're definite it's precisely what we acceptable retired to bash and that it makes consciousness to bash it, we don't privation to sully the legacy. When I cognize it's perfect, past it volition beryllium retired there. But I won't bash it unless I cognize it tin beryllium that."

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