Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast now as reboot announced

Some stars of teen supernatural play Buffy went connected to go immense names successful amusement portion others faced infidelity and maltreatment claims, addiction issues, and 1 sadly died.

After much than 20 years it’s looking highly apt that Buffy the Vampire Slayer volition beryllium revived. The much-loved supernatural play is reportedly adjacent to a aviator bid from streaming work Hulu for a caller occurrence with Oscar winning manager and Buffy super-fan Chloé Zhao onboard. It volition beryllium enforcement produced by Dolly Parton, whose accumulation institution Sandollar made the archetypal series. A twelvemonth agone Parton confirmed a reboot was being considered, saying: "They’re inactive moving connected that. They’re reasoning astir bringing it backmost and revamping it."

It primitively ran for 7 seasons betwixt 1997 and 2003 and fans were devastated erstwhile it ended, lobbying for a revival ever since. According to Deadline, it’s believed Sarah Michelle Gellar volition instrumentality to her pb relation arsenic Buffy Summers who fought against a big of evil characters, including vampires, demons and different forces of darkness. But the protagonist was not alone, arsenic her adjacent friends joined her successful a radical known arsenic the Scooby Gang to conflict everything Hell had to offer.

The series came to an extremity aft a staggering 144 episodes, but led to spin-off bid Angel and the 'Buffyverse'. The caller bid is expected to beryllium the adjacent section successful the Buffyverse. Here the Mirror takes a look astatine wherever the archetypal formed members are now, with immoderate having gone connected to go monolithic names successful the amusement industry, portion others person faced contention and tragedy.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Buffy Summers

Things could person been precise antithetic arsenic Sarah Michelle Gellar primitively auditioned to play Cordelia Chase. While Dawson's Creek prima Katie Holmes was offered the relation of Buffy, she turned it down to decorativeness precocious schoolhouse and the remainder is history.

Sarah became the starring woman and did conflict with occult foes. The bid brought her to the attraction of movie bosses and catapulted her vocation to the adjacent level with parts successful Cruel Intentions, Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer, wherever she met her aboriginal hubby Freddie Prinze, Jr.

But according to her co-star and on-screen bestie Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg) Sarah struggled with fame and was 'annoyed' by the amusement from bid 3 onwards. Sarah sensationally discontinue astatine the extremity of bid 7 amid clashes with creator Whedon, who is said to person thought she was 'unappreciative'.

"I was 18 erstwhile I started the show; I'm 26. I'm married. I ne'er spot my husband. This has been the longest span of my beingness successful 1 place," she told Entertainment Weekly astatine the time. "There've been times wherever that's been hard - you privation to prime up and go, effort different things, unrecorded successful antithetic places. It feels right, and you person to perceive to that. The show, arsenic we cognize it, is over."

Sarah has besides spoken retired against Whedon aft Charisma Carpenter's allegations of 'bullying' portion connected set. The 43-year-old histrion took to societal media to propulsion her enactment down victims of maltreatment but added that she would not marque immoderate much comments.

She took to Instagram to authorities that, portion she loves her transportation to Buffy, she did not privation her sanction everlastingly associated with Whedon. "While I americium arrogant to person my sanction associated with Buffy Summers, I don't privation to beryllium everlastingly associated with the sanction Joss Whedon," Sarah wrote.

"I americium much focused connected raising my household and surviving a pandemic currently, truthful I volition not beryllium making immoderate further statements astatine this time. Despite gathering connected the acceptable of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Sarah and Freddie didn't commencement dating until 3 years aboriginal successful 2000.

Two years aboriginal they got joined and person 2 children, girl Charlotte, 14, and Rocky, 10. The powerfulness coupe person worked unneurotic galore times, including playing emotion interests Fred and Daphne successful the 2 Scooby-Doo movies.

They besides voiced characters successful animated movie Happily N'Ever After and Star Wars Rebels. Sarah has besides released her ain cookbook and appeared arsenic herself successful an occurrence of The Big Bang Theory successful 2019. More recently, past twelvemonth the histrion made a comeback to supernatural teen dramas with a relation successful Paramount+'s Wolf Pack. Sarah starred arsenic Kristin Ramsey, an arson researcher investigating the origin of the wood fire.

Charisma Carpenter - Cordelia Chase

Charisma played cheerleader Cordelia, who started disconnected arsenic vain and shallow but went connected to redeem herself portion battling evil. The histrion played the relation for the archetypal 3 seasons, past near to instrumentality connected a larger relation successful the archetypal 4 bid of spin-off Angel.

After leaving vampires behind, Charisma, present 53, starred successful Charmed, Veronica Mars and The Lying Game. She played Lacy successful the archetypal 2 The Expendables films and had roles successful Sons of Anarchy and Lucifer.

In 2021, the histrion spoke retired against Buffy creator Joss Whedon successful a almighty Twitter statement. Admitting she felt 'powerless and alone', Charisma accused Whedon of 'abusing his powerfulness connected galore occasions portion moving together'. In the statement, the histrion alleged that Whedon threatened to fire her and called her "fat" erstwhile she was pregnant.

"Joss Whedon abused his powerfulness connected galore occasions portion moving unneurotic connected the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel," she wrote connected Twitter. "While helium recovered his misconduct amusing, it lone served to intensify my show anxiety, disempower me, and alienate maine from my peers."

Whedon denied each allegations of threats and cruelty in a lengthy interrogation with New York magazine, saying helium has been made to look similar an ‘abusive monster’. Representatives for Gellar, Chase and Whedon were approached by The Mirror astatine the clip for comment.

David Boreanaz - Angel

Angel was the smouldering vampire cursed with a psyche and Buffy's main emotion involvement earlier helium got his ain spin-off show. The vampire was the starring prima successful Angel, turning into a backstage investigator.

Actor David Boreanaz starred successful Dido's video for White Flag earlier graduating to US transgression play Bones. But his idiosyncratic beingness came nether the microscope successful 2010 erstwhile it emerged he'd had an matter with Tiger Wood's alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel portion his woman Jaime Bergman was pregnant.

However, helium insisted the saga served arsenic a 'bonding experience' betwixt himself and his Playboy exemplary missus, telling TV Week: "In a ineffable crushed similar marriage, you find yourself retired of it astatine definite times for reasons chartless that tin beryllium destructive. There could beryllium a demon that benignant of comes retired and overtakes you."

The 55-year-old has since played the relation of US Navy SEAL Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes successful the Paramount+ subject play bid SEAL Team.

Michelle Trachtenberg - Dawn Summers

Michelle turned up arsenic Buffy's moaning sister Dawn successful bid 5 and was not a instrumentality favourite. “I inactive get comments like, ‘Oh my God! I deliberation Dawn is truthful annoying!’ I bash get a batch of ‘Oh she was truthful whiny!’" she told Entertainment Weekly.

Defending her character, she continued: "Were you a teenager? Oh, you were docile, sitting successful the corner, doe-eyed and blessed to beryllium there? No. There’s a crushed wherefore teenagers person a stigma and that is what Joss wrote.”

Michelle went connected to play Georgina Sparks successful Gossip Girl and was besides reportedly archetypal prime for Bella Swan successful the Twilight movies. However, she's said to person turned it down owed to scheduling conflicts and the relation went to Kristen Stewart instead.

Michelle, present 38, replied to Sarah Michelle Gellar's station successful narration to the Whedon allegations, claiming she is present brave capable to talk out. "Thank you @sarahmgellar for saying this," Michelle wrote successful reply.

"I americium brave capable present arsenic a 35 twelvemonth aged woman....To repost this. Because. This must. Be known. As a teenager. With his not due behavior....very. Not. Appropriate." In a comment, she added: "What helium did was precise bad. But we win. By surviving!" Michelle besides shared Sarah's connection connected her Instagram story, adding: "We cognize what helium did. Behind. The. Scenes."

Alyson Hannigan - Willow Rosenberg

Willow was the shy, nerdy miss who gained magical powers portion studying arsenic a witch. As good arsenic kick-starting her career, Buffy besides introduced Alyson to her husband, Alexis Denisof, who joined arsenic pedantic watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce successful play three.

How I Met Your Mother prima Alyson did her champion to slap connected the moves, but for a while, Alexis remained impervious to her charms. "I was trying to prosecute him, but helium said helium didn't privation to day idiosyncratic helium was moving with. But we developed a large friendship..." she told The Sun successful 2012.

"When my caller narration ran its course, the full happening abruptly changed and Alex and I started to truly attraction astir each other. So it was 2 years earlier we started seeing each different and that was backmost successful 1999." The mates went connected to wed and person daughters Satyana and Keeva.

But earlier she started seeing Alexis, Alyson admitted to having a fling an off-camera fling with co-star Nicholas Brendon, who played Buffy's BFF Xander. "I deliberation Nick and I mightiness person kissed once, similar disconnected camera," she confessed connected Watch What Happens Live years later. "He mightiness person had a boob oregon something."

The histrion is champion known for playing set campy geek Michelle successful the iconic American Pie movies. She played Lily successful How I Met Your Mother for 9 seasons, for which she won a People's Choice Award successful 2009. Alyson has presented TV amusement Penn & Teller: Fool Us since 2009 and became the dependable of Claire Clancy successful the Disney Junior bid Fancy Nancy.

Nicholas Brendon - Xander Harris

Xander was 1 of Buffy's closest friends who started retired precise geeky but became a person successful the combat against evil. Once filming wrapped, Nicholas recovered himself trapped successful a destructive spiral of alcoholism and entered rehab successful 2004 and 2010.

He was arrested 4 times successful 2015 for trashing edifice rooms, nationalist intoxication and an alleged home altercation with a girlfriend, and checked backmost into rehab for substance abuse, slump and alcoholism earlier tragically attempting to instrumentality his ain life.

Opening up astir his torment connected the Dr Phil amusement earlier returning to rehab, the histrion said: “I deliberation I wanted to beryllium heard. I deliberation I wanted to beryllium helped, you know? Because I deliberation there’s a batch of bully beingness to live.”

The troubled star, present 53, besides told however helium had been molested by a euphony teacher erstwhile helium was 10 and said the trauma near him profoundly damaged. “I deliberation astir it each time of my beingness and I wonderment however it affected maine did I halt increasing emotionally?” helium added.

"When you’re molested for a mates years and you’re blamed for it by the radical who are expected to beryllium your protectors, there’s going to beryllium a batch of disorder and a batch of sadness.” Now a keen artist, Nicholas raised eyebrows erstwhile helium seemingly skipped the Entertainment Weekly 20th day formed sit-down and was aboriginal photoshopped into the picture.

However, helium claimed co-star David Boreanaz hadn't wanted him there, leaving him nary prime but to beryllium photographed separately.

Anthony Head - Rupert Giles

In a world of surging teenage hormones, mentor and begetter fig Giles was the calm among the storm. Tasked with watching implicit Buffy and her slaying for the Watcher's Council, Giles knew everything determination was to cognize astir the supernatural.

British histrion Anthony Head, present 70, went connected to prima successful Little Britain, Silent Witness and Spooks and appeared successful Netflix transgression drama, The Stranger. His girl Emily Head played Carli D'Amarto successful The Inbetweeners earlier landing the relation of Rebecca White successful ITV soap Emmerdale.

Robin Sachs - Ethan Rayne

Chaos-worshipping wizard Ethan was the thorn successful the broadside of his arch force Giles, performing unusual jobs for demons connected a subcontract basis. After the amusement ended, the London-born prima played the evil General Sarris other Tim Allen successful Galaxy Quest.

But helium sadly died of a bosom onslaught successful February 2013, conscionable 4 days earlier his 62nd birthday. "It is with large sadness that we person to denote the abrupt and unexpected passing of Robin Sachs," his website read. "Please articulation america successful raising a solid to Robin -- goodbye, beloved friend. Thank you for each the laughter and the cookies. We volition miss you truthful precise much."