Buffy Reboot Set Photos Show the Return of an Iconic Sunnydale Location — Though Not as You Might Expect

Hulu's caller Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot volition wage homage to a classical determination from the archetypal show, albeit with thing of a humorous twist.

Set photos (originally from reddit) showing the ongoing filming of the caller series' aviator person revealed a familiar-looking corridor from Sunnydale High School, implicit with lockers and a doorway to the Scooby Gang's archetypal hideout location: the library.

But zoom retired a small further and it's wide this acceptable really is conscionable a set — oregon much specifically, portion of a haunted location that pays homage to Buffy's OG vampire-infested spot of education.

Il y aura une maison hantée sur le thème du lycée de Sunnydale lors du Vampire Weekend dans Buffy Contre les Vampires : New Sunnydale pic.twitter.com/27KsXh7AWp

Indeed, the haunted house's exterior is adorned with banners declaring it to beryllium portion of "Sunnydale's Vampire Weekend," an lawsuit that appears to beryllium a knowingly kitsch solemnisation of the municipality being an undead hotspot.

On set, actors person been spotted portraying festival goers successful fake vampire constitution (as opposed to the 'real' vampire constitution utilized for the series' existent vamps). Other elements of the Vampire Weekend lawsuit see stalls selling magical items, and a circus sideshow dubbed Van Helsing's Bloodbath.

As with fans' archetypal glimpse successful 20 years of Sarah Michelle Gellar in-character arsenic Buffy — though present wearing a corporate-looking suit — this appears to beryllium the reboot erstwhile again upending expectations. The events of the archetypal Buffy bid present look to person passed into memory, and the town's presumption arsenic the Hellmouth is present crippled for an lawsuit that looks arsenic creepy arsenic a renaissance fair.

Of course, the archetypal Sunnydale High School was blown up during the events of Graduation Day, Buffy's classical play 3 finale that saw the schoolhouse unite to decision the town's politician and a herd of vampires. Sunnydale High was past rebuilt, but destroyed erstwhile again alongside the remainder of the municipality during the series' finale, arsenic the entirety of Sunnydale was consumed by a sinkhole.

All of this begs the question wherever the Buffy reboot bid volition beryllium set, and whether what we're seeing present is simply a caller mentation of Sunnydale rebuilt from the crushed up, celebrating its origins — conscionable arsenic the reboot is of its archetypal run.

Earlier this week, Sarah Michelle Gellar was praised by 1 of her caller co-stars for turning up connected acceptable each time to enactment arsenic an advisor for the series' lore. And yes, that includes describing precisely however radical should look erstwhile they're bitten by a vampire.

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