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Hulu’s reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer will no longer be happening, the TV show’s former star announced on Saturday.
“Unfortunately, Hulu has decided not to move forward,” Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played the titular Buffy on the popular ’90s supernatural series, said in an Instagram post.
Gellar filmed a pilot for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale alongside Ryan Kiera Armstrong, 16, who was cast as the reboot’s next vampire slayer.
The original show — about a group of young people in fictional Sunnydale, Calif., fighting vampires and other supernatural forces — broke the mould for traditional television.
As CBC Ideas reported on the show’s 20th anniversary in 2017, many cultural critics say Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a major influence on a generation of television production with its long, sweeping narrative arcs and deep character development set against a background of contemporary social anxieties and tensions.
“I wanted to thank Chloe Zhao,” Gellar said in her post of the Oscar-winning director who was tapped to bring the show back from the dead.
“I never thought I’d be back in Buffy’s stylish yet affordable boots, and thanks to Chloe, I was reminded how much I love her and how much she means not only to me but to all of you.”
She added: “This doesn’t change any of that — and I promise, if the apocalypse actually comes, you can still beep me.”
Hulu did not immediately respond to a request for comment by CBC News.
