'Buffy' resurrected: Sarah Michelle Gellar promises fans a faithful reboot is underway

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is eyeing a instrumentality to TV. Just inquire its heroine.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, the series’ titular supernatural slayer, confirmed reports this week that a reboot of the beloved bid is successful the works much than 20 years since its finale. Trade outlets including Variety and Deadline reported Monday that Hulu is processing the task with Oscar-winning “Nomadland” manager Chloé Zhao acceptable to nonstop and Gellar attached.

Amid the reboot buzz, Gellar chimed successful Thursday with a connection of her own. “I recognize you haven’t heard from me,” she said connected Instagram earlier detailing years of conversations down this week’s news.

Since “Buffy” ended successful 2003 aft 7 seasons, fans person eagerly awaited quality astir the cult favorite’s future. The spinoff bid “Angel” aired from 1999 to 2004 connected the WB, but different prospective “Buffy” revivals reportedly struggled to marque it past development. Additionally, respective actors successful caller years person accused “Buffy” creator Joss Whedon of misconduct.

Gellar said Thursday that she received a telephone 3 years agone from “Buffy” enforcement shaper and “dear friend” Gail Berman astir the prospects of a reboot. Berman wanted her to conscionable with “Eternals” filmmaker Zhao and larn astir her imaginativeness for “Buffy.” Geller said she was a instrumentality of Zhao’s but told Berman, “I conscionable didn’t spot a mode for the amusement to beryllium again.”

Geller antecedently had voiced disinterest successful a reboot, but the gathering seemed to alteration her mind. She wrote that a 20-minute java chat with Berman and Zhao became an hours-long “adventure.”

“We laughed, we cried, but mostly we talked astir however overmuch this amusement means to us,” Gellar continued.

The trio continued their conversations implicit the pursuing years and added “Poker Face” producing duo Nora Zuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman. Together they “landed connected an idea.”

The imaginable “Buffy” bid would not halfway connected Gellar but alternatively connected a younger Slayer, sources told the Hollywood Reporter. Geller said Thursday she didn’t consciousness assured returning to the satellite of “Buffy” “unless I was definite we would get it right.” Years since that archetypal speech with Zhao and Berman, Gellar told her followers the process is ongoing and promised “we volition lone marque this amusement if we tin bash it right.”

She added: “I volition archer you that we are connected the way there.”

The “Buffy” reboot has yet to unafraid an authoritative bid bid astatine Hulu, but much radical person thrown their enactment down the project. Deadline reports producers Fran Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui person joined the producing team, arsenic has Dolly Parton, whose Sandollar Productions produced the archetypal series.

Gellar concluded by ensuring fans that there’s a batch of emotion going into the reboot and thanking them for their changeless support.

“Thank you to each the fans who ne'er stopped asking for this,” she wrote. “This volition beryllium for you.”