Fran Rubel Kuzui

Warner Bros. Buys Rights to BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Reboot; Whit Anderson to Pen the Script

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 22nd, 2010 at 12:37 pm

In May 2009, we reported that Fran and Kaz Kuzui were going to re-launch Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a feature film but without the input of Joss Whedon (and after reading Buffy: Season Eight, that might be a good thing).  In a press release, it was announced that Warner Bros. has now optioned the rights from the Kuzuis and that Atlas Entertainment and Vertigo Entertainment will produce.  Whit Anderson has been brought on to write the script.  Atlas’ Charles Roven said of the new take “Details of the film are being kept under wraps, but I can say while this is not your high school Buffy, she’ll be just as witty, tough, and sexy as we all remember her to be.”  Hit the jump for the full press release.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Could Be Headed Back to the Big Screen without Joss Whedon?

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 25th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

I know the idea of a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” motion picture re-launch without Joss Whedon shouldn’t surprise me but it does.  He fully crafted the character completely apart from its 1992 screen debut (which I enjoy but Whedon disowns) and built Buffy Summer and her gang of Scoobies over the course of seven seasons, the “Angel” spin-off, a couple of videogames, an eighth season if you count the comic books in addition to all the other comic tie-ins that Whedon briefly overseas but doesn’t maintain direct involvement.  And with all that, “Buffy” has never quite cracked the mainstream despite its fiercely devoted fanbase and actors like Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, and David Boreanaz being able to crack the mainstream with summer movies and TV shows like “How I Met Your Mother” and “Bones”.

But while “Joss Whedon” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” may seem inextricably tied to one another, Whedon doesn’t actually own the rights.  Those belong to Fran Rubel Kuzui (who directed the 1992 film) and her husband, Kaz Kuzui and according to The Hollywood Reporter, they’re thinking of joining up Roy Lee and Doug Davidson of Vertigo Entertainment to relaunch the character into a new franchise.

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