Joss Whedon Responds To Buffy Reboot News.........

[frick] these REBOOTS & REMAKES!

And [frick] this new CROW REMAKE too, damn you Hollywood lol!

LMAO!!!! This is the guy who is directing The Avengers???????? THANK GOD!!!!!!!! :)

I love Whedon! HE has the balls to tell everyone in Hollywood that he is pissed about this Buffyboot as much as the fans of the show. This shows that Whedon is not afraid to hide his feelings and if a studio says something he doesn't like about his project or vision, he will speak up.. This is why he is a great director choice for Avengers!

As a massive Whedon fan, I find this news disturbing to say the least..It will probably fail worse than the original movie.Of course they will replace all the wonderful metaphors of the series with mindless action.
I guess if they HAVE to do it, then Hayden Panettiere for Buffy.

We don't need a reboot anyway its to early! The LUke version was crap!!!!!

"I always hoped that Buffy would live on even after my death. But, you know, AFTER."

That made me laugh. True though it should be.

Holy Sh!t that was funny!

That was funny and dead on. Hollywood keeps wanting to 're-boot' concepts that aren't old. The TV show was practically a re-boot into and of itself.

Once again, it is Hollywood's being bereft of original ideas. There must be a brain dead brain trust somewhere continually looking at movies/shows that are a few years old and saying "if we put Bieber in a building taken over by European terrorist with a gun...do you think Bruce Willis will play the beat cop on the radio with him to make it legit?"

I get that he was joking about the popularity of vampire movies, I'm just building on the rest of what he says along with this (about original work, which he wasn't joking on). My point is, if it's a successful franchise (again, not good, but successful), why wouldn't they try to build on it in some way? He should take it as a grand gesture to have been part of the history of something that may continue on and get the opportunity to see it.

@champ6
I'm pretty sure the "original work" line was pure sarcasm as well, as he followed it with "like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself.".

he probably should have thrown in links to a laugh track after all the sarcastic bits, because its pretty tough to pick up in print, but the whole thing is pretty tongue-in-cheek.

Dear Mr. Whedon,
As a fan of your creations, I am deeply sorry for what the motherf*****s in Hollywood are doing to your beloved series. I cannot express the amount of grief I had when I first heard this horrible horrible news. Just hope they never mess with Firefly.

P.S. I did however think that after Buffy and Angel broke up that the storytelling got a little too out there. Just saying.

man, I gotta change my avatar.... thanks champ.

Oh Buffy...

BMP!

We should totally boycott not only the reboot of Buff but also Fox movies like "X-Men First Class" and "The Wolverine". Its not like we would be missing any thing.

Seriously is getting to the point where when I hear the word fox I get this image in my head...

FOX=SUCKS

"...And Also More Cheaply..." - Taking a shot at the Avengers budget rumor?

@Champ6 - The whole quote was sarcastic. Lighten up.

Guys even though I agree with what he is saying for the most part. I cannot get made at a company for wanting to remake a popular brand. Its a business. Yeah we can say they suck ayda yada yada but at the end of the day if we were in the same position we would do the samething. Now I would make sure I make the best product I can, meaning I would not deviate too much from the source material(like the case with Jonah Hex how they got a dude that only movie under his belt was a kids movie(Kung Fu Panda). I would make sure the script and the people on the movie are good. I mean you cannot just make one batman or spider-man movie series the character is too big for that. When we are gone those characters will still be here. If we did not have reboots or remakes we would have been stuck with the Adam West Batman movie. We would not have gotten the Carpenters version of the Thing or Casino Royale. Now if I was running thing I would not remake or reboot everything but somethings would get the treatment such as Superheroes characters(would not tell the same tell twice though it would be more like bond where you know the background of the character and such, I would not keep retaling the origin. The new Spider-man I will let off the hook because we never got a proper origin story with Gwen and stuff and maybe they could do a better job with Venom lol. I would not remake such classic as wizard of oz or nightmare on elm street etc because those are classic and can stand the test of time. They could have easily just told a new story involving freddy than remaking it(like for instance it could have been set many years after his last movie and have the dude just come back pissed and brutal becuae he is fed up with getting his ass handed to him at the end of everymovie. You know and get England to play him with the pissed off Freddy make-up like you saw in Freddy vs Jason movie lol)

@stanors - well put

i don't see whey they just don't ask joss to consult or produce or even do a script re-write... i think that would put a lot of people's minds at ease

"This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths—just because they can't think of an original idea of their own."

Says the guy making a movie based off a comic that started in the 60s. I don't know what to say, honestly, he's doing the samething. What else is an Avengers movie other than feasting on a carcass from our youths?

Allyndnoir, did you even read past the sentence you transcribed? JESUS! where are the IQs!

if they really do commit this travesty, i wonder if WB is ready for the EPIC FAIL that this movie will be compared to the Luke Perry one. Yes, it will get press from the fans HATING it, but that same fan base won't support the movie.