The show is called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale,” but Buffy Anne Summers is barely in it. Rather than revolving around Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy, the shooting draft for the show’s pilot episode — written by sisters Nora and Lilla Zuckerman, and obtained by Variety — introduces an entirely new set of characters, and, crucially, a new Slayer, a 16-year-old high-schooler named Nova (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). In the Zuckermans’ original draft of the pilot, Buffy appears only at the end, in a tag.
A close reading of the script, directed by Chloé Zhao, may give clues to why Hulu passed on the show, which has caused an
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