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Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms ‘Buffy’ Reboot Is ‘Getting Close’ (Exclusive)
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Sarah Michelle Gellar slayed on the red carpet at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, where she spoke to "Extra's" Melvin Robert about exciting "Buffy" news!
On Thursday, Gellar took to Instagram to confirm that a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" reboot was in the works.
While she initially wasn't sure how a reboot would work, Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao convinced her to reprise her role!
She shared, “When Chloé Zhao first came to me, I was so overwhelmed. I mean, she’s one of the only women to ever win the Academy Award as Best Director. I mean, she’s someone that I idolize, and she said, ‘I have this idea and I can’t do it without you,’ and I was like, 'Uhhh.' And after the last three years of working it out together and workshopping it and having the incredible Zuckermans, I think we’re getting close.”
She stressed, “We will only do it if we can do it right and honor that legacy and extend it, but it just seems like the world needs a superhero right now."
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was on the air for seven seasons until 2003.
As for what she knows now that she didn’t before, SMG said, “I was a teenager. I know everything now that I did not know then, 'cause let me tell you something, as a mother to a teenager, they don’t know anything.”
Sarah Michelle was also down to return to “All My Children,” saying, “I did the finale; sure, why not?”
