"It was a movie. It's been made. It stars Kristy Swanson. They don't need to make another one," she said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday. "I think it's a horrible idea! To try to do a 'Buffy' without Joss Whedon? To be incredibly non-eloquent, that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard!"
Gellar is planning to return to series television for the first time since 2003 in a pilot for CBS called "The Ringer."
"I miss television, I do. It took me a while to understand that I missed it," she said. "Eight years is a really long time, especially at my age, being so young and not knowing other things and you realize you miss the familiarity, you miss the crew, you miss - it's almost like summer vacation and seeing your friends after the break."
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As much as I loved the show and just about anything else that Joss does, hearing all of these people keep saying how bad a new movie is going to be is getting sort of old. Okay, Joss, Sarah, David, James, and all of the rest of the shows' regulars have had their say, so now I'm gonna have mine.
How can anyone possibly pass that kind of judgment on something that they know next to nothing about? Okay, Joss won't be writing or directing the movie, or in any way involved with it. Sarah won't be reprising the role, or even making any sort of cameo appearance. I hope that this doesn't come as a shock to anybody here, but there are any number of writers and directors in Hollywood, New York, and all over Europe who are at least as good as Joss, and quite a few who are better, some MUCH better. This new Buffy movie, if it ever does develop, may be the biggest flop to hit the big screen. But it might also be a financial and artistic success. There's just no telling until we see the finished product, and until then, it's just anybody's guess, and not even a particularly educated guess at that. I'm old enough to remember people saying that trying to make a new James Bond movie without Sean Connery was the dumbest idea that they had ever heard. The same thing was said, I have no doubt, about making a Sherlock Holmes movie without Basil Rathbone or a Tarzan movie without Johnny Weismuller. My point is, Sarah, Joss, and all of the others in the original cast are just as likely to have to eat a lot of words one of these days as they are to say "I told you so."
And as far as missing television is concerned, considering the consistently underwhelming success record, with the exception, maybe, of the Scooby Doo movies, since leaving the show, coupled with Freddie's lack of work in quite some time, what she might very well be saying is, "I miss that steady paycheck."
(The preceding was written by my cynical, evil twin brother, Black Avenger, and is not necessarily my own opinion on the subject)
