The worst idea since having Greedo shoot first?

[lirazel]

"Rebooting" Buffy?

With no Joss?

And no Sarah?

And supposedly there's a huge fan base just waiting to see it get rebooted?

Uh-huh.

I'll believe that when I see it.



I am trying not to think about this too much lest I get really, really, really angry.

Comments

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

The director will make or break it. Even with a woman writer, if the director wants T&A, there's not much the screenwriter can do. But even writers are taught to...not write women.

With Whedon at the helm, I'd feel a lot more confident. He has his issues, but he respects his woman characters and will allow them the agency to carry a story without being reduced to an object.

Right now, I'm gonna be skeptical about any Hollywood attempt to take on Buffy. I don't think I'm at all unjustified to declare that they don't know what Buffy's about when they include "sexy" among her most important features from the TV show.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Director is going to be crucial as hell.

New sources are already mocking the screenwriter for being "hot". Thanks world. YOU SUCK.

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

...I hate the world.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Hell, you know what I want now?

I want Joss to come re-write the script and direct it after Avengers.

Can I have that world? Please?

Sigh. I just really like the idea of a woman who grew up watching this show and loving Buffy bringing her pov into the mix.

I'm worried that this is doomed to fail though. The writer is new, the director undecided, Hollywood sucks and I'm afraid a genuinely empowering hero movie for women will get hammered into something unrecognizable. Please, a good director. Please.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid a genuinely empowering hero movie for women will get hammered into something unrecognizable

I hope not as The Hunger Games movie has been greenlit and I don't want Katniss bastardized. (Although I have some hope on that score given that the film script adaptation has been written by the original author of the books.)

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Here's hopin'. At least the author has some creative control and hopefully was a part of the process in picking the director.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I expect that since the book was a best seller that Suzanne Collins had some standing in the contract negotiations since at the moment she's listed as having written the screenplay. We can only hope she got her views across, because I can see how someone who doesn't care about the material could go for a surface treatment being distracted by the love triangle and the cinematic violence while missing the deeper, more meaningful aspects of the books.

I could easily see the studios wanting to play up the love triangle fot the Twilight crowd, when really, the triangle is just a side story that's most important for how it works metaphorically [I wrote a long meta about how Peeta and Gale each represent different aspects of Katniss so it's not a triangle so much as who this journey will force her into becoming and what part of herself can she not lose and still survive (which is the way it's actually phrased at one point in the book.) Likewise, I can see the studios losing sight of the underlying thrust of the novel which is largely about how the media, politics, tv, and propoganda can be used to manipulate the masses. I'm not sure how the voyeuristic aspect of the Games will translate on screen, as movie violence is itself rather voyeuristic. It'll be interesting whether they can get the real message across when the movie does what the story is against -- exploiting the suffering of the characters for our viewing entertainment.

At any rate, Katniss had better rock, in the trilogy she goes from being basically a human sacrifice to the rallying figure of a revolution. She'd be a hell of a heroine to screw up.

And the last I read, Variety said it's all but confirmed that the guy who directed Seabiscuit has the job. I've never seen that movie but it had good reviews.

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

Well, at least we know that the media's priorities are still in line.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

They're reassuring that way.

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

I'm curious to see Whedon's handling of the Avengers. Because I don't know how he's gonna get by having ScarJo in a patent leather catsuit and not make do a little gaze-pandering.

But I hope he doesn't.