Sarah Michelle Gellar changes her mind on a ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ reboot: ‘We need those heroes, I think, more so than ever.’
Imagine the creativity that would flourish if financial interests would invest in new stories rather than beating the corpses of long dead cows for that last morsel of profit.
I can’t believe executives aren’t looking at this reboot/remake phase and going like “reusing IP is great, let’s make new IP so that we can make new franchises”
Creating new IP is a long term strategy that harms short term objectives at the benefit of long term ones.
Most execs are not incentivized to do anything but max this quarters profit. Execs are only concerned with the immediate as their salaries are based on quarterly and annual objectives.
The system is designed to race to the bottom. Who can create the most revenue while providing the very least to the consumer.
That doesn’t guarantee number go up.
We must fail to create and learn, without failure there is no growth and sometimes those failures birth something spectacular. Our system has us at a stranglehold, it stifles and discourages creative solutions, and the stories we tell reflect this. There is no future if we continue like this. This is a symptom of a sick system.
Yup. The system doesn’t know how to predict properly on new IP. They know that existing IP has an existing fan base and can have its own virality and marketing built in, so they can plug it into these “models” and forecast revenue and stuff so these guys can have jobs. That’s why we get another culturally irrelevant live action Disney remake. More of the artform is getting soulless over time.
For those seeing the jokes about needing money, and that’s why she’s willing.
She took a break from acting to raise her kids. Her and her husband are far from broke.
They could both quit entirely, and would have to develop am 80s level coke habit to blow through their collective assets
Won’t work, she is getting old and young kids are not interested in middle aged buffy.
We do need heroes, just not… That.
Then again, maybe middle aged moms will like it, having watched buffy when they grew up.
It could be a “tales of the slayers” type of thing where each season is a different slayer from history. It could be a series set 20 years after the finale where Buffy is…maybe not Giles but is more of a mentor-generals don’t typically go to the front lines. Further, the challenges presented by (effectively) superheroes appearing in the world, and being the one responsible for that, would mean a different kind of story.
Guess she ran out of money
TIL MSG now ‘maybe’ has bills to pay.
