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Charisma Carpenter Calls for Cordelia Chase’s Return in Buffy Reboot

Showrunners Nora and Lilla Zuckerman are developing the Buffy pilot under Chloé Zhao’s direction

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Overview

  • The Hulu revival remains in pilot development with Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao directing and the Zuckerman sisters leading the writers’ room
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar will reprise Buffy Summers in a recurring capacity and Ryan Kiera Armstrong has been cast as the new Slayer
  • Charisma Carpenter said she hopes to reprise Cordelia Chase and described the character’s death on Angel as unjust
  • Carpenter called a resurrection of Cordelia “poetic,” arguing the creative team could reconcile storylines across Buffy and Angel
  • An Audible spinoff featuring an alternate-universe Cordelia aired one season, underscoring fan appetite for narrative closure