New Buffy TV movie announced

ixoy

Found this article on Buffys.net:

Joss Whedon has announced a plan to resurrect the Buffy franchise in a one-off TV movie, provisionally titled "Twilight". This comes in the wake of the recent cancellation of its sister show "Angel", following lacklustre ratings in the last couple of years.
"The movie takes place forty years from where we left off in the show," says Joss, "It's a look at how Buffy, and her friends, have coped in the years since the demise of Sunnydale. Can Xander find someone to replace Anya? Were Willow and Kennedy meant to be? Can Giles resurrect the spirit, the true ethos, of what was the Watcher's Council? And of course, can Buffy find the happiness that's eluded her for so long? We're going to try and answer as many of these questions as we can, while still leaving a bit of room for mystery."
The show will reunite the cast of the show, including Sarah Michelle Gellar (who can be seen currently at cinemas in "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed"). They will reprise their characters at different ages in life - from late 20s, up to their 60s. "We don't necessarily aim to tell their tales in a linear fashion," said the upbeat Whedon, "We aim to instead gradually unfold how our characters get to where they are by looking at the events that have been driving them."
The TV movie is penned to be approximately two hours long and to air in Late Fall of 2004. It is not though, to be taken as a precussor to a new series.
"These are the final chapters on our character's lives," explained Joss, "It's not to be seen as a jump off point for new stories."
Asked by one fan if we can expect to see David Boreanaz's Angel character appear, Joss was typically elusive, "Maybe. He was an important part of her life.. but it could be that he's no longer around by that time."
There's one thing we can rely on though - that this is the one event that all Buffy fans will want to catch later this year.

Giblet

Was it posted today, as in, an april fools?

ixoy

Ummm, I dunno. It seems credible I thought. It didn't occur to me that it'd be an April Fool's joke.

Stark

Interesting. I wonder will Buffy be all old and withered or still youthful when she's 60, given that she's a slayer and all.

Could be an April's Fools joke. And that "he may not be around by that time" reference to Angel, might be putting fear in fan's hearts that he's going to kill off Angel at the end of the current series.

gazzer

umm. I wonder if this is true. I was also reading a while back that even though WB are cancelling Angel they gave Joss Whedon the option of producing a couple of Angel TV movies over the next couple of years.

TCamen

Congrats ixoy, not even remotely subtle