It is easy to forget that there was a time in the pre-Sopranos/Wire/Mad Men age when the best show on TV was about a moody teenage girl who fought vampires (and, you know, slept with a few of them, too). None of the bloodsucking franchises that have come since--notably the Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse series--have held a clove of garlic to the humor/horror/adolescent angst cocktail perfected by Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So you'd think news of a new Buffy movie in the works would get fans at least a little excited, right? Maybe it would--if only the planned project weren't being done without a.) any of the TV cast members, and, more crucially, b.) Buffy creator and writer Joss Whedon. Whedon wrote the screenplay for the original 1992 movie and was the creative force behind the TV show, but does not own the rights to the character.
Anyway, he responded to the news today with exactly the kind of snark and self-deprecation you'd expect from one of his characters:
I always hoped that Buffy would live on even after my death. But, you know, AFTER. I don't love the idea of my creation in other hands, but I'm also well aware that many more hands than mine went into making that show what it was. And there is no legal grounds for doing anything other than sighing audibly. I can't wish people who are passionate about my little myth ill. I can, however, take this time to announce that I'm making a Batman movie. Because there's a franchise that truly needs updating. So look for The Dark Knight Rises Way Earlier Than That Other One And Also More Cheaply And In Toronto, rebooting into a theater near you.
Leave me to my pain!
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