The proposed Buffy the Vampire Slayer Animated series got shelved when Disney met Fox, but now that its not tied to a studio there is buzz that the powers behind are really pushing for this to happen.
“It was a very simple entry point,” Loeb said. “There is a girl in high school who has been chosen to fight evil, and there’s a great deal of it in her town. Here are her friends, and here is her watcher.”Loeb said that the initial idea was for him and Joss Whendon to do an animated series in 2002, which would’ve taken place within Season 1 of the live-action show.”We liked to call it episode seven-and-a-half,” Loeb joked. “It was a much simpler time. Angel had been introduced, but he was not yet Angelus. We could retrofit Dawn as a ten-year-old, so you can really play the older sister gag. Their mom is alive.”
My first instinct was that they couldn’t do a Buffy series like this after all the history that played out, and trying to appeal that to a Fox Kids Market. But it seems they were already on top of that. They are taking the younger Buffy and putting her in the middle of the first season and going from there.
I am not insisting on this because its not the same Buffy. Its not like they are carrying on the story in animated form. They are going Saturday morning with this pitch and obviously targeting a younger demographic. Some of the more adult situations (Lesbian Willow, Buffy the slut phase, etc) will obviously be glossed over as they haven’t grown up that far. Some of the best Buffy years were in Highschool anyways so it is a good place to start.
But it could be fun.
