Overview

• The pilot script underwent its inaugural table read on July 21, marking the first collaborative session for Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Kiera Armstrong and the production team.
• Chloé Zhao, an Oscar-winning director and lifelong Buffy fan, is directing the pilot based on a script by sisters Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar returns as Buffy Summers and serves as executive producer, guiding Armstrong’s high-school Slayer character in a reimagined New Sunnydale.
• Hulu’s revival is produced by 20th Television and Searchlight TV without involvement from Joss Whedon and aims to blend homage to the original series with modern social-media and outsider themes.
• The series title remains blacked out in shared images, and the project has drawn a feeding frenzy of Hollywood writers vying to join the creative team.