Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reboot Casting Confirms its new Scooby Gang — Backing Up Previous Leaks

As accumulation ramps up connected Hulu's Sarah Michelle Gellar-backed Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, caller casting details person revealed the series' caller stars.

As antecedently announced, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew histrion Ryan Kiera Armstrong volition pb the project, portion Gellar volition look successful its archetypal episode, past look afterwards successful a recurring role.

The remainder of the formed are each caller to the franchise, TVLine reports, and see Severance's Sarah Bock arsenic Gracie, Law & Order: SVU's Ava Jean arsenic Larkin, and Faly Rakotohavana arsenic Hugo. Major Crimes' Daniel di Tomasso plays Abe, portion Frasier's Jack Cutmore-Scott is the mysterious Mr. Burke.

These quality names lucifer up with those antecedently leaked backmost successful March by amusement manufacture insider Daniel Richtman, arsenic good arsenic those seen by eagle-eyed fans who enhanced a photograph of a publication posted by Gellar past week.

With a spot of Photoshop magic, Buffy aficionados spotted the names of Poppy, Hugo, Gracie, and Mr. Burke each listed connected the reverse of the archetypal episode's shooting script, utilized successful a caller array work for the series' caller pilot.

While unconfirmed, fans fishy Poppy is the sanction of Armstrong's caller pb quality — essentially, the caller Buffy. The leak earlier this twelvemonth meantime placed Gracie arsenic the lead's champion friend, Hugo arsenic a emotion interest, and Mr. Burke arsenic their schoolhouse librarian — a throwback to the archetypal series' Giles.

Gellar, meanwhile, was credited connected the caller publication arsenic Buffy "Anne" Summers, which immoderate fans person suggested mightiness mean the Slayer is erstwhile again attempting to run nether the radar, and utilizing her mediate sanction arsenic a pseudonym.

While Gellar, who acts arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the caller show, has said she was keen for the reboot to diagnostic a premix of caller and returning characters, including those who were nary longer alive, it's possibly not astonishing to spot the series' halfway formed confirmed arsenic all-new characters.

It's been much than 20 years since the archetypal show's finale, and Gellar has said this reboot volition request to find its ain abstraction to diagnostic caller stories and characters. That said, fans are inactive hoping for different classical characters to popular up from clip to time, and archetypal Buffy histrion Charisma Carpenter has already told IGN she'd beryllium keen to appear, aft an "unjust" extremity to her quality connected spin-off Angel.

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