re: re: Re: [buffywantswillow] OT: The calling of a new slayer

[Jim_D_Means@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> ** Original Message follows... 

>
> At 05/06/2000, you wrote:
> >Regarding the subject of New Slayers;
> >I wonder how much of the movie could be considered story canon. After 
> >all, I seem to recall
> >that Buffy was a senior in the movie, but is a sophomore in the first 
> >season. I know she
> >wasn't the best student in the world but really! I know that the movie 
> >was written by Joss
> >Whedon, but I suspect that he had taken liberties translating the movie 
> >into the TV show.
> 
> From what I've read Joss may have written the original script for the 
> movie
> but it got massacred during the filming (he was just the creator and script
> writer, which in Hollywood means nobody important). Just assume Buffy
> was like Cordy (as seen in Becoming), the Vamps didn't fly, and ignore
> any thing else that doesn't fit what we've seen in the show.
> Thassa
> 

Dark Horse Comics recently put out a graphic novel called "Buffy The Vampire Slayer; The 
Origin", which is essentially the story of the movie, rewritten to fit with series continuity. I 
think it was written by Christopher Golden, who wrote several Buffy novels as well as the 
Watcher's Guide(a program guide for the first two seasons), and has worked closely with 
Joss Whedon. If you want to get it right, this book may be the way to do it.

Kirayoshi



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