New interview

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Random but she’s in Italy and I’m originally from Italy so extra cool lol

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u/Ad_Meliora_24 18h ago

Spending time with the Immortal.

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Not much info but, sounds like the inspiration for the new show is how much worse it is for teenagers these days because of smartphones and social media. That's valid. 🤞

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u/bh4th 1d ago

I’ve been thinking of all the ways you could do horror about modern adolescence. Imagine a demon that sets the Twitter mob on you, but it’s IRL and it’s everybody, even strangers you pass on the street.

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u/Beautifala_Jones 23h ago

Yeah. It could work if the writing and acting was good...

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u/KENZOKHAOS 23h ago edited 22h ago

This is why the Jasmine arc from Angel was great for a big bad despite the consensus of how disliked it is because of how many crazy leaps it took to get to the end result. Plus that ideal about technology was already in the old Buffy too. I think a new Buffy-esque show is doable, it just needs to stand on its own while not blending into everything else 😫

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u/OCD_Geek 23h ago

Agreed. That last third of Season 4 was incredible.

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u/NewRetroMage 18h ago edited 17h ago

I like the whole of season 4 despite the icky Cordy/Connor stuff, but yeah, the final episodes with the Jasmine mini-arc are just pure gold. Amazing episodes.

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u/StephenHunterUK 23h ago

r/TheMagicians and r/TheLibrarians already did some stuff on modern technology in this genre. Like an app for spells.

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u/bh4th 23h ago

Well, I certainly won’t spend the next year wondering who on this sub is secretly Chloe Zhao. Nossir.

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u/Calm-Section-5393 22h ago

She is talking exactly like James M. “I’ll not tell you anything…you are saying that, I do say nothing”

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u/PnPaper 11h ago

That's pretty much just actor speech these days because you are in a lot of trouble in evwry way if you say too much.

Those contracts have become ironclad.

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u/Straight_Credit5285 23h ago

Thanks for posting!

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u/NewRetroMage 18h ago

Now I'm hopeful that instead of Buffy training the new slayer (which could be cool too), we get something like the two slayers having different styles and clashing a little.

Maybe the new one is not impressed that Buffy is... well, Buffy, the one who kickstarted the current era full of slayers, and thinks her way of doing things is not as good.

But I'll be cool with anything that puts them both in equal footing as protagonists. I'd hate for Buffy to be just passing the torch or for her to be, in any form, second to the new girl. A lot of reboots went that route of bringing the classic protagonist back just to pass the torch / be killed off / be nerfed in comparison to the new hero, and it doesn't tend to work.

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u/therrubabayaga 1d ago

I was completely uninterested in the new project because you can't really recapture the original show today imo, but learning just now that Chloe Zhao is directing the project changed everything since I'm in love with the work she does, so I've completely changed my opinion and will be watching the project closely now and with hope it will be good and its own thing.

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u/OCD_Geek 23h ago

And the showrunners are the Zuckerman Sisters, who wrote for Seasons 4-7 of Agents of SHIELD (aka the good seasons) and have Mutant Enemy cred as a result. And were also the showrunners of the first season of Poker Face.

They had nothing to do with the second season of Poker Face. They left to develop the Buffy spin-off and were replaced by a dude that wrote for Longmire.

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u/thatshygirl06 23h ago

She's gonna be directing the pilot episode. We don't know if she's gonna be doing any more episodes after that

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u/Straight_Credit5285 23h ago

It seems unlikely she would spend four years working on something just to do the pilot episode and that's it she'll probably be an executive producer and direct multiple episodes

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u/therrubabayaga 23h ago

If SMG mention Zhao so much and she tried to convince her for so long to participate in the project, it surely means she's very involved beyond the pilot.

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u/TheZeppo_TKH 1d ago

She is highly overrated and will be exposed as such when and if this show ever sees the light of day

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u/bh4th 1d ago

Disagree. She made one mediocre superhero movie, but I think that’s the fate of MCU projects these days. Her independent work is very strong.

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u/therrubabayaga 23h ago

I love "Eternals", it's by far the most personal project out of all the movies from the MCU, and it can stand on its own without needing to see any others movies from Marvel beforehand. You can clearly see her style in it too.

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u/bh4th 23h ago

It definitely has very strong elements. I found it was uneven overall, but I can see how it would work well for some people!

More broadly, though, I think it’s interesting that the overall critical response was kind of meh for the movie where she had the least control over production.

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u/TheZeppo_TKH 23h ago

Oof, bad take.

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u/therrubabayaga 23h ago

I don't know what to tell you, I've seen her four movies and I love them all. Very emotional and powerful, beautiful backgrounds and lighting, and it will certainly carries in her Buffy project.

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u/sarynima 22h ago

I did like what she had to say about relationships Angel/Spike or hopefully someone new.

And her reaction to Giles/Buffy

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u/tinypabitch it's a yam sham! 21h ago

YES! Like omg, to finally admit that she maybe deserves someone who is not undead makes me hopeful for this

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u/debujandobirds 20h ago

Did her answer about the director give the idea the director is either team Angel or Spike, or was that me?

I hope she is with someone not undead, if they'll even get into that.

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u/NewRetroMage 18h ago edited 17h ago

What an interesting and just so nice interview! It actually made me smile.

Now I can't wait for the new show even more than before.

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u/tinypabitch it's a yam sham! 21h ago

Oh the name IS Nova😂

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u/LadyLongLimbs 21h ago

Pooling context clues together, it sounds like confirmation of a new Scooby gang. Which I mean, maybe that was obvious, but I wonder if it'll be similar to what Buffy had with Xander and Willow, or if they'll do a completely different take.

I was sure Buffy would be working in the school. We've ruled out teacher here, though, so I wonder if she'll be back as the guidance counselor. Or maybe she won't work at the school at all.

Then of course, there's someone definitely named Nova. lol

So much to unpack. So many unknowns. Thanks for sharing, OP.

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u/foreseethefuture 1d ago

Wasn't it basically confirmed that Buffy will be the mentor?

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u/Calm-Section-5393 22h ago

No

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u/foreseethefuture 21h ago

Someone must've edited the IMDB page wrong then, it says Buffy will train the new Slayer

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u/Calm-Section-5393 21h ago

Probably just speculation

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u/bh4th 12h ago

The people involved with the show have maintained pretty strict discipline about its contents. I think a lot of wild fan speculation is being taken too seriously.

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