Sarah Michelle Gellar was at the SXSW Film & TV Festival premiere of her new movie Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.
It was her first time at SXSW. It was also her first time on a big screen in almost 20 years. This was, as Gellar says, a really big day. A fun day. Then she got a phone call.
“I was just about to take the stage in front of all the fans,” Gellar recalls, speaking by phone Sunday afternoon. “Hulu had decided not to move forward with the Buffy revival. Let me tell you, nobody saw this coming.”
Since the series that made Gellar a star left the air in 2003, fans have been clamoring for Buffy Summers to come back. And she almost did. For several years, Gellar and Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao have been working on a revival for Hulu and Searchlight Television.
