Overview

• The project’s first table read convened under Chloé Zhao, bringing writers and cast together to workshop the pilot script.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar shared a social media video of her and Ryan Kiera Armstrong undergoing fight and fitness drills for their mentor-mentee roles.
• Armstrong is officially cast as Nova, an introverted high-school student chosen as the new Slayer under Buffy Summers’s guidance.
• A female-led production team—including Gellar, Zhao and writers Nora and Lilla Zuckerman—joins original executive producer Gail Berman to steer the reboot.
• Hulu has ordered the pilot but has not yet greenlit a full series or announced filming dates, leaving the project’s scope pending.