That is
an abomination.
Also, stupid. The show
was
the fricking reboot, of the really pretty awful movie that they made. And canon has continued through books and comics already. There is nothing fresh and interesting there for them to do. And they already proved, through the simple contrast of their movie and the TV show, that Joss? Kind of integral to the success of that particular concept.
Want to reboot something? Reboot something from the 60s or 70s, or even the 80s. Or wait ten years and THEN try to do your (terrible) Buffy reboot.
From a business point of view, it's actually better to do it now. Buffy is an international brand, but it will (and is) fall out of the public eye as the years pass.
This whole thing is all about money. I hope Joss and Fox pile in with lawyers.
They tried to reboot the TV series in a similar fashion a few years ago. They did a pitch which included Buffy getting frozen (I'm not making this up) and waking up in the future. All her friends were dead, so no Willow/Xander etc. As it happens Willow/Xander/etc were created specially by Joss and owned by Fox, so it got them around the rights issue. Oddly enough nobody would touch the idea, probably because they'd seen Futurama.
God, that is the Medellin of fantasy concepts(although they probably don't have much in common other than the application of mass amounts of cocaine. bad-dum-pum.
From a business point of view, it's actually better to do it now. Buffy is an international brand, but it will (and is) fall out of the public eye as the years pass.
No, I understand this. I understand that they HAVE the rights to BtVS, and that thus BtVS is what they're thinking of making money from, rather than having to acquire rights to something else.
But I was talking about artistic merit. The various reboots for BSG,
Charlie's Angels, Starsky & Hutch, Star Trek
et al are more interesting and timely in no small part because they aren't revamping something recent. Because the source texts were pop culture rooted in a very different culture, and so there have been enough changes in the kinds of television made, and in the ideals/values/cultural norms, that the reboots have not been a total waste of time.
Thank you, thank you.
I've been looking to use that comparison for a bit now, but I hadn't found anything horrifying enough quite yet.
Think I have now.
Woof.
ETA: If you don't know what Medellin is, read self-indulgent vanity project that will leave a noxious stain on every career that it touches, however tangentially, and leaves an aroma of Fail strong enough to outpace that fake-butter smell in the movie theater.
But the pitch looked okay.
Also, I've got a fandom for you.
Me too, actually.
Actually, I think the insiders just decided to sink that one on purpose.(that might have been a more interesting failure for Vince than having it verifiably reek and get booed out of Cannes, but I'm rambling, as always.)
Although it was a little weird and went over budget.
Medellin is is probably more like Gigli, without the fucking, although I think I sent off some kind of Slash signal just by typing that, so your mileage may vary.
Work on Dollhouse season two starts, I think, tomorrow. Tim's back on board. Hooray!
