Reboot fever is raging throughout Hollywood, but not every case is symptomatic. Occasionally, a network can make a big to-do about bringing a franchise back from limbo, only to back off after the last second, often after a pilot has been shot. It happened in 2011 with Wonder Woman starring Adrianne Palicki, it happened in 2023 with a live-action Powerpuff Girls series, and it happened just last year with a gender-swapped remake of Holes.
Now, the latest casualty is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Joss Whedon classic monster-of-the-week series was given a splashy reboot announcement, with young Skeleton Crew star Ryan Kiera Armstrong introduced as the next slayer. But in a recent video, Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed Hulu decided not to go forward with the pilot. Details were scarce, but a rumored script leak gives us a glimpse as to what we could have seen.
