Sarah Michelle Gellar ‘on the path’ to Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot

Sarah Michelle Gellar has said she is “on the path” to reviving Buffy The Vampire Slayer alongside a squad of “four unbelievably talented women”.

It comes aft US publications reported that the show, which ran from 1997 to 2003, was nearing a aviator bid astatine Hulu.

In an Instagram post, Gellar, who played vampire-battling precocious schoolhouse pupil Buffy, said: “So … you mightiness person heard immoderate quality this week, but I realise you haven’t heard from me.

“Three years ago, I got a telephone from my beloved person and mentor, Gail Berman.

“She told maine that she wanted maine to beryllium down with (filmmaker) Chloe Zhao to perceive her instrumentality connected a imaginable ‘Buffy’ revival.

“I was blown distant that Chloe adjacent knew who I was, but, arsenic I’ve ever done, I told Gail that I conscionable didn’t spot a mode for the amusement to beryllium again.

“We’d ever been aligned connected that, but this clip I heard thing antithetic successful her voice.

“I yet agreed to spell (mainly conscionable to conscionable Chloe) and our 20-minute java rapidly turned into a four-hour adventure. We laughed, we cried, but mostly we some talked astir however overmuch this amusement means to us.

“While I didn’t hold to thing astatine that meeting, I did daze myself by agreeing to proceed the conversation.”

Gellar, 47, said the conversations continued “over the adjacent fewer years” and that they “landed connected an idea” with TV writers Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.

“I person ever listened to the fans and heard your tendency to revisit ‘Buffy’ and her world, but it was not thing I could bash unless I was definite we would get it right,” she said.

“This has been a agelong process, and it’s not implicit yet. I committedness you, we volition lone marque this amusement if we cognize we tin bash it right. And I volition archer you that we are connected the way there.

“I consciousness truthful fortunate to beryllium connected this travel with these 4 unbelievably talented women, each of whom emotion ‘Buffy’ arsenic overmuch arsenic I do. And arsenic overmuch arsenic you do.

“Thank you to each the fans who ne'er stopped asking for this. This volition beryllium for you.”

The series, created by writer and manager Joss Whedon, saw Gellar play Buffy, 1 of a agelong enactment of young women chosen by destiny to conflict supernatural forces successful the fictional US municipality of Sunnydale.

The programme besides starred Alyson Hannigan arsenic Willow Rosenberg, James Marsters arsenic Spike and British prima Anthony Head arsenic Rupert Giles.

The shows occurrence led to a spin-off bid for vampire Angel, played by David Boreanaz.

Gellar has besides starred successful 1990s movies Cruel Intentions and I Know What You Did Last Summer and plays the brag of fictional serial slayer Dexter Morgan successful a caller prequel series.