You can’t keep a good slayer down.

Neither death, nor as it turns out, cancellation, can keep Buffy Anne Summers from continuing to save the world, a lot, at least not if things with Hulu work out.

The iconic series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, launched on the now-defunct WB network in 1997 and concluded on the now-defunct UPN network in 2003, is the subject of talks at Hulu, the streaming platform for 20th Television, which owns the Buffy franchise.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy, is in talks and is expected to reprise her role on the new series, but it’s not known now if she will be the new series’ main character. it has been said that the show would be a new chapter in the Buffy-verse.

Joss Whedon, who created the original Buffy series, will not be involved in the new series. Whedon has been accused of creating a hostile work environment and other serious misconduct by many of the actors who worked with him throughout the years. He has not worked since 2021 when the allegations went public.

Instead, Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, The Eternals) will direct the pilot (if/when it gets ordered), which will be written by Poker Face scribes Nora and Lilla Zuckerman.

Also expected to return are original Buffy executive producers Gail Berman, Fran Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui and Dolly Parton. Gellar is also expected to produce.

This isn’t the first attempt to continue the Buffy story beyond the cancelled television series; there was a comic book series written by Whedon for Dark Horse in 2007 that is considered the show’s eighth through twelfth season, canonically.

In 2023, Audible offered Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, an audio original set 10 years after the Buffy series finale that featured original stars James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Juliet Landau, Emma Caulfield Ford, Amber Benson, James Charles Leary, and Danny Strong, as well as newcomer Laya DeLeon Hayes.

A new Buffy series on Hulu would be the first live-action television sequel to the original, though. Hulu and 20th have yet to comment on the talks, and there’s no word when the new series might premiere and who else would be in the cast.