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If someone wanted to make Buffy the Vampire Slayer "lighter," you could imagine there would be an uproar of suspicious fans. Unless, of course, the person who made the claim was Buffy Summers herself. Yes, Sarah Michelle Gellar recently said in an interview that Hulu's upcoming reboot/sequel to the original 1997 Buffy the Vampire series will have a lighter tone than its predecessor, and even stated her desire to undo some of the darkness of the first show.

That is, by bringing back all the characters who died on it.

All this comes out of an interview Gellar did with Vanity Fair Italia, published June 23. "[The reboot] will be lighter than the last few seasons of the original," says the original Slayer, who can currently be seen in Dexter: Original Sin, "We will try to find a balance between new and old characters."

Coming into this interview blind, you might assume that the "old characters" that Gellar is talking about are the ones who've made it to the end of the original series, or at least the spinoff, Angel (hell, maybe even the ones from the Audible Slayers series). But nope - as we've mentioned above, Gellar's talking about even some of the characters who kicked the bucket before those shows ended.

"My dream is to bring back everyone who has died," Gellar says, although she does add a stipulation, "but space will have to be made for new stories as well."

We're not going to go into which characters Gellar is talking about here, as we don't want to spoil a Buffy watchthrough for those who still haven't seen the series yet. But we will say that bringing back previously dead characters would require some pretty delicate work, even in a series that's already about the undead.

As of this writing, there's no word on the Buffy reboot release date.

In the immortal words of Danny Elfman, "Life's no fun without a good scare." We couldn't agree more, which is why we've cobbled together a couple pieces to send a chill up your spine. Join Popverse as we explore:

• The best horror movies of all time, according to horror aficionado Greg Silber
• The most underrated horror movies from the past couple years
• All the new and upcoming horror movies for 2025 and beyond

And much gore. Er, more. Much more.