Sarah Michelle Gellar Reveals Title for New "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Series

Sarah Michelle Gellar is clearing things up about the upcoming series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" she’s working on with Chloé Zhao.

Hulu ordered a pilot for the continuation series that Gellar starred in for seven seasons, and in a new interview, she revealed that the title of the new show is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale".

“It’s not a sequel, it’s not a reboot — it’s a continuation,” Gellar said on the Shut Up, Evan podcast.

She noted the series will answer the questions of where Buffy “is now in this world and what is this world that Buffy lives in with her and without her,” adding, “So it’s not a reboot, it’s not picking up with all of the same characters right away. It is not like a sequel… That’s why the name was even important to me — Buffy: New Sunnydale. It’s Buffy, but it’s also something else.”

Although Gellar didn’t disclose any new details, she did say she “learned a hard lesson in life” about the saying, “never say never,” as she was initially opposed to re-taking the character.

“I will eat my words, and I’m OK with that — I learned my lesson,” she added. “I never saw how and why it could be as good [as the original series]. I’m not trying to be better. I just want to hold and honor the memory and what we created. I know sometimes that memory is conflicted for people about how they’re supposed to feel about it, but a lot of people put their blood, sweat, and tears into making what I think is an incredibly great show, and I’m incredibly proud of it.”

Gellar noted Zhao’s passion for the project, which ultimately led her to sign up to revisit Sunnydale.

“Chloé Zhao came to me and not just her passion, because I’ve seen people with passion before, but she knew how to go into the world. She knew what the world was, and she knew the way,” she noted. “And that was the first time I said, ‘Maybe, could I possibly do this? And this went on for three years now … me and Chloé going back and forth, saying I could do it, saying I can’t, and really spending the time to develop what it is and why it is.”

Gellar pointed out they are still developing the series and “still working on that, why and how,” adding, “I know this seems like it’s taking a long time, and it’s because unless we are sure that it is exactly what we set out to do and that it makes sense to do it, we don’t want to sell you the legacy by not. When I know it’s perfect, then it will be out there, but I won’t do it unless I know it can be that.”