Before garnering success on the hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother and the American Pie movies, you may remember Alyson Hannigan playing the shy teenager-cum-powerful lesbian witch on the hit WB/CW series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now that there is a movie being made from the series that started out as a movie in the works, word is Hannigan will not be starring in the film.
Alyson Hannigan told Cinemablend that she will absolutely not appear the new movie -- not even a cameo -- because series creator Joss Whedon isn't involved.
Calling the film "a very big mistake," Hannigan said she speaks for the whole cast. "Not without Joss. Joss is the only reason that we would go back."
Anthony Stewart Head, who played Buffy's watcher Giles on the TV show, also said he will not return for the feature film without Joss Whedon -- and that he wouldn't even want to see it.
I'm sure you're wondering how they cen make a Buffy movie without the support of the cast or the involvement of creator Whedon? Well unfortunately the rights to the title are still owned by the producers who made the original 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, years before the hit TV show. They say the movie will be a "relaunch" -- with new characters and a new slayer. As for Whedon, who also created the well-written TV shows Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse... well, they just didn't ask for his input. When asked for comment by Entertainment Weekly, Whedon simply responded: "I hope it's cool."
I'm sorry but it won't be. Whedon totally gets women characters, and he has done a bang up job with the woman on the Buffy TV series. it wasn't all about the slaying that drew people to the show. the monsters played into the medaphor of how scary the real world could be as well as how human behavior could bring the most demonic out of someone. Not having Whedon's input in the upcoming film would be a big mistake to the fans that have grown to love the series as well as the people who helped make the Buffy series into the cult phenom it is today. When will Hollyweird ever learn?
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