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Joss Whedon on what he wasn’t able to do on Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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buffyBuffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon talks to Assignment X on Avengers, Firefly, S.H.I.E.LD television series, and what he wanted to do with Buffy that he wasn’t able to do.

On the one thing he wasn’t able to do on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER …

“We got to do almost everything we wanted to do,” says Whedon. “The only thing we didn’t get to do is an animated version, which was a delight for us because the writers themselves were working on it. We wrote seven scripts … it was ‘what could we not do [on the regular series].’ They were really fun to write. We could not sell the show. We could not sell an animated BUFFY, which I still find incomprehensible.”

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Billy The First Gay Male Vampire Slayer in The Buffy Series

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Out.com got a chance to talk to Jane Espenson about the new slayer added into the BuffyVerse.

If you know the mythology of the Buffyverse, then you know only women can be “called” (chosen by fate) to be a Slayer, so how is it that a gay boy is getting a chance?

Jane Espenson, who has been involved with Buffyverse for quite some time—working as a writer and producer on the television show and co-writing several comic book stories for Tales of the Slayers,Tales of the Vampires, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight—has collaborated with Drew Greenberg on this project. With the news last week that she was also working on a digital comic based on Husbands, we wondered, Why Billy, and why now?

“Billy actually predated the idea of doing a Husbands comic,” Espenson explains. “I already knew Cheeks, and he has a line in Season 1 of Husbands, that Brad [Bell] wrote, that really struck me about how Cheeks has an “exotic femininity” that’s equated with weakness. I thought, Gee, all the work we’ve done with Buffy is about being female, and how that doesn’t mean that you are lesser. It suddenly struck me: If being feminine doesn’t mean that your’e lesser, then liking guys also doesn’t mean you’re lesser. For very good reason, we’ve focused on the female empowerment part of Buffy, but I wondered,Did we leave something out? What if someone in high school is looking up to Buffy as a role model, and we’re saying: You can’t be a Slayer.”

But doesn’t the mythology dictate that only young women can be a Slayer, you might wonder?

As Espenson explains: “Batman doesn’t have super powers. He wasn’t gifted with an exotic foreign birth. So we take the Batman route; Billy is earning the Slayer mantle.”

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Bianca Lawson says The Vampire Diaries is more serious than Buffy

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In an interview with Digital Spy, Vampire Diaries and Buffy star Bianca Lawson talks about how different both shows are and her characters.

“Tonally, they feel like such different shows to me,” the 33-year-old told myFanbase. “The Vampire Diaries feels a little more serious, whereas Buffy was more humorous and tongue-in-cheek, I think.”

Lawson – who has appeared in a total of five Vampire Diaries episodes – added that her characters on each show were also “just so different”.

“Emily is very internal and still… where Kendra was very physical, emotionally inexperienced and solid,” she said.

Source – Digital Spy

Video: James Marster at the 2012 Wizard World Chicago Comic Con

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel star James Marster attended the 2012 Wizard World Chicago Comic Con and thanks to Honest Reviews Corner, there are videos of this amazing man. Now I don’t want to be greedy, so I’m only posting one of the videos, click the link below to check out the others.

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Video: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cast at Comic Con 2012

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Some of the cast celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the cult classic television series ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer‘ at Comic Con.

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Congrats to ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Named Greatest Cult TV Series

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Thanks to Starpulse  for the heads.

Fans just can’t get enough of vampires. Today it’s “Twilight,” but not too long ago it was “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” which tops a new magazine list of the 25 Best Cult TV Shows from the past 25 years.

The Joss Whedon-helmed series ran for 144 episodes between March 1997 and May 2003, and is number one on Entertainment Weekly’s new poll. The show was a mixture of drama, comedy, romance, action, and horror.

“Buffy” centered on the exploits of its titular vampire slayer, a mystical “Chosen One” living in Sunnydale, Calif., an idyllic small town situated atop the mouth to hell. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) was plucked from a life of cheerleading and parties and forced by her mystic destiny to slay vampires and vanquish demons.

Source – Starpulse

i09 Interview with “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” creator Joss Whedon

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In an interview with i09, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel creator Joss Whedon talks about comics, Buffy, The Avengers, and more.

So this is kind of a weird question, and you probably answered it years ago. But why did you choose not to retell Buffy’s origin in the pilot of the TV show? Why pick up where the movie left off?

I don’t like to tell the same story twice. Now, I repeat myself all the time. I have the same themes that I go to. And I have more than once actually written the same scene twice and then realized it too late. One time I caught it, and one time it aired. That was awkward. But I really don’t… Once I’ve told a story, I kind of want to move on. And I didn’t feel [like retelling it], even though not many people had seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer [the movie].

I was also creating a show, and movie to show is a very big change. To answer a question… the movie could just be a pastiche of horror movies. It was supposed to be a real horror movie — but in the way thatCabin [in the Woods] is, it was supposed to be a commentary on horror movies. And that was enough of a premise for a movie. It’s not enough of a premise for a TV show. So I needed to introduce a completely new world anyway. I needed sidekicks anyway. And I needed to make her younger anyway, because she would have graduated [from high school too soon]. And so all of that led to me going, “I just want a new story.”

And this was before everybody rebooted everything. This was before Ultimate Everything. And so maybe now, I’d go, “Oh, we’ll just start again.” Because people do that. But for me, I’m like, “I told that story. And I get bored.”

 

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“Buffy The Vampire Slayer” star joins “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters”

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Former “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” star Anthony Head who played Rupert Giles in the television series has signed up for the sequel of Percy Jackson film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anthony will play Chiron.

Fox 2000 has cast Anthony Head as Chiron in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters.

Thor Freudenthal is directing Sea of Monsters, which will be released in 2013. Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson and Jake Abel are returning in the lead roles.

The first title in the franchise, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, grossed $226.5 million at the worldwide box office in 2010.

New additions to the film series based on Rick Riordan‘s young-adult books include Nathan Fillion, who will play the god Hermes.

Chiron, a key character in Percy Jackson, is in charge of Camp Half-Blood, where demigods are trained and protected.

Source – The Hollywood Reporter

Fearnet Interview with Buffy The Vampire Slayer Author Nancy Holder

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 Fearnet recently spoken to the author of the “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” novels about what’s next for her and her memories of writing BTVS books:

It seems you were ahead of your time when it comes to the paranormal romance genre…

I started our writing a lot of short horror fiction. And I wrote nothing but short stories for four years. If I could make a living doing that, I would do that. But I was probably one of the first women splatterpunks, and I really liked being ahead of the game, or a little bit ahead. So now watching the boom is a thrill. I love it. When I was writing all my Buffy books, when the show was ending and when Angel was cancelled, I was so bummed out, because I thought it was the coolest gig I would ever have. I absolutely loved writing Buffy books. Some people think that writing tie-in books is somehow demeaning or limiting; I never felt that way. Just because I loved the show so much. Reading the scripts was eye-opening. The writers on Buffy and Angel were genius-level writers. People tend to discount TV writers and people who write on assignment, but for that reason I was really sad when Buffy ended. Because I so admired the writing of it. Then I thought, “That’s probably the coolest thing that will ever happen to me.” And it hasn’t been. It’s continued to be cool. So I think that would be my reaction – “Yay, there’s still more opportunity and there’s more of that urban fantasy/paranormal stuff going on.” So yay for that.

What are you working on now?

Right now I’m working on the second novel in a young adult dark fantasy series with my co-author Debbie Vigue (with an accent mark over the e). Our book is called Hotblooded, and it’s the second book in a werewolf trilogy. We just turned in our last young adult dark fantasy novel for Simon & Shuster, called Vanquished. Then I’m writing a novella for a YA dystopian anthology. And I’ve got a tie-in project, but I haven’t signed the papers yet, so I don’t want to say what it is. But it’s very cool. It’s gonna be a cool project.

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Small Screen Scoop Interview with Charisma Carpenter

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 Three days ago, Small Screen Scoop posted their interview with the Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel star Charisma Carpenter about what else, Buffy and Angel:

We asked her what season of either show she wishes she could have tweeted during. Her answer was Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3, right before she made the jump to Angel.

“Probably the third season of Buffy; my last season on Buffy. Graduation day, I think that probably would have been a good year to be on Twitter, because we were getting ready to exit. There would have been a lot of news to share, if I was allowed to share it is another story. But there would have been a lot going on. The rebar scene, some of the kooky stuff we wore, it was exciting for me. A lot of stuff happened to me. I knew I was jumping ship, so a lot of my character was getting some resolution with relationships in that season. I finally got to vanquish a vampire after being a damsel in distress for three years. So that would have been fun to tweet. Pictures on the set with all the demons running around would have been fun. We were on a very specific lot which we called Wheden World. So it wasn’t on Fox or Paramount or any of that. We had our own sort of world going on. So that would have been interesting We were around on set, like we had outdoor sets, the graveyards and stuff.”

Of course, she has plenty of love for her time on Angel the series. Noting they had a lot more indoor sets there, she said that “Angel would have been fun too,especially when Andy Hallett was around it was always fun. It was a lot of fun too, but I just think if I had to pick one year, that would have been it.”

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