The proposed Buffy the Vampire Slayer Animated series got shelved when Disney met Fox, but now that its not tied to a studio there is buzz that the powers behind are really pushing for this to happen.
“It was a very simple entry point,” Loeb said. “There is a girl in high school who has been chosen to fight evil, and there’s a great deal of it in her town. Here are her friends, and here is her watcher.”Loeb said that the initial idea was for him and Joss Whendon to do an animated series in 2002, which would’ve taken place within Season 1 of the live-action show.”We liked to call it episode seven-and-a-half,” Loeb joked. “It was a much simpler time. Angel had been introduced, but he was not yet Angelus. We could retrofit Dawn as a ten-year-old, so you can really play the older sister gag. Their mom is alive.”
My first instinct was that they couldn’t do a Buffy series like this after all the history that played out, and trying to appeal that to a Fox Kids Market. But it seems they were already on top of that. They are taking the younger Buffy and putting her in the middle of the first season and going from there.
I am not insisting on this because its not the same Buffy. Its not like they are carrying on the story in animated form. They are going Saturday morning with this pitch and obviously targeting a younger demographic. Some of the more adult situations (Lesbian Willow, Buffy the slut phase, etc) will obviously be glossed over as they haven’t grown up that far. Some of the best Buffy years were in Highschool anyways so it is a good place to start.
But it could be fun.
I don’t think that clip is for a new show, it’s a clip from the aborted pilot — thrown together more for demonstration than anything else, IIRC.
Still, cartoon Buffy would be a blast if it’s set during the High School years – I thought it really fell apart in the last few years. Even a little kid Dawn would be acceptable. If they can incorporate Oz into the mix it’d be even better.
Wow, that clip… was terrible. That looks even worse than the new Spider-man series. I’d probably give it a chance but if the rest of the series would be like that, I’d stay away from it forever. That was just painful to watch.
I’d rather the animated series stay buried. I watched that clip above a couple of weeks ago and while some of it is okay on a whole it made it made me cringe.
The die-hard Buffy fans have ‘Buffy Season Eight’ to keep them going, the canonical comic series by Whedon himself.
i’d much rather them try to make a film or tv movie(s) that continue the series over a cartoon that goes back to high school and cuts out all the “good stuff” for the kiddies. this is a very lame idea.
buffy fan’s want more buffy, but we want new buffy, we always have. we’re still peeved that the show ended and have been buying up the comics for around a year now.
this is starting to feel like star wars, just like the news of no episodes 7, 8 and 9. we’re never really going to get what we want out of it, just rehashes (the clone wars) of what once was great.
Ah, didn’t catch that clip before. Never mind. It looks like it’s being handled pretty decently.
I don’t mind Dawn appearing since memories were re-written in Season 5… What bugs me is marketing it to a children’s audience. This is a show where the first and foremost staple is stabbing vampires in the heart with a wooden stake… not exactly something you can get away with on a Saturday morning, let alone dealing with monsters who suck blood out of your neck.
They actually made a pilot for this. Animation Magazine reported on it a couple weeks ago.
http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/8697
EDIT: I posted the clip in the post above. Thanks!
While it would have been cool seeing Dawn incorporated in the early days i don’t think this is a good idea anymore.