July 31 will be the 15th year anniversary of the movie release, but the TV show definitely had better reviews and probably more viewers. Some people are still surprised when they found out there was a movie.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, lasted seven seasons on the WB and UPN. It also led to the spin-off series Angel, which started after season three of Buffy and lasted five seasons, going on one year after Buffy ended. Angel (David Boreanaz) made apperances on Buffy's final episodes, but Gellar only appeared on a handful of Angel episodes, and none after Buffy ended. Whedon had originally planned for only five seasons of Buffy, according to a Q&A with TVGuide.com in December.
Buffy has been sort of a measuring stick for some of the newer TV shows, with studios knowing that a strong cast and storytelling is needed to make shows, especially genre-strong ones, work.
Egged on to have the series make a comeback or at least have some TV-movies with some of the favorite characters (Spike comes to mind), Whedon will be writing some comic books now. Rather than comics and novels that stood by themselves, Buffy: Season 8 will be a graphic continuation of the television show. The series should be 20-30 issues and will be written by Whedon along with some comic book pro writers and some former Buffy writers.
Whedon also had a comic series called Fray, which was about another Slayer in the future, but I can't seem to find anything that leads me to believe there were more than eight of those, but sold over 200,000 copies combined. "One issue of Fray was a year late," says Whedon.
Obviously due to his success with strong female characters, Joss was writing and re-writing the anticipated and probably required if-it's-a-comic-it-has-to-be-a-movie Wonder Woman film, but is no longer attached. Rumor has it the front-runner to play the lead was How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders, who I think would have been awesome.
A little where are they now for ya:
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy) starred in both The Grudge movies (2004, 2006). She voiced April O'Neil in the new animated TMNT movie, due out in March. She also has three movies coming out: Alice, Addicted and Suburban Girl.
Nicholas Brendon (Xander) starred in a couple of TV shows, Kitchen Confidential and a voice in the Disney Channel's American Dragon: Jake Long. He has a horror movie coming out in 2008 called Unholy.
Alyson Hannigan (Willow) currently stars in How I Met Your Mother, which has been a show for a few Buffy alums to guest-star on. She has regular roles in parody movies, including Date Movie and Farce of the Penguins. She also had a recurring role on the TV cult-hit Veronica Mars, another show centered by a strong female character.
Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) will be appearing in the 2007 film Sweeney Todd, based on the Broadway musical. It stars Johnny Depp as the lead character. He also played Duncan in a modern retelling of Macbeth, which is in post-production.
James Marsters (Spike) had a recurring role on Smallville for eight episodes. He had a role in the 2006 horror film Shadow Puppets, which according to some seems to be a blatant rip-off of a Buffy episode where the gang lose their memories.
Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) also had a story arc on Veronica Mars. She has also been in a few TV movies and posed for Playboy magazine in June 2004.
David Boreanaz (Angel) stars in the Fox drama Bones, which was recently renewed for a third season.
Eliza Dushku (Faith) starred as Tru Davies on the Fox drama Tru Calling, a low-rated show which also saw good DVD sales, like Whedon's Firefly. According to IMDb.com, she's in production on numerous projects.
and D.B. Woodside (Principal Wood) is the President of the Unites States on 24!
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Here's the entire movie!: The New Guy (entire movie)
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