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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Series
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David Semel ("Boston Public," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Beverly Hills 90210," "Dawson's Creek") makes his feature film directorial debut, with first time screenwriter Trevor Munson penning the story. The film was executive produced by Marshall Herskovitz ("I Am Sam," "Traffic"), Edward Zwick ("Abandon," "Legends of the Fall") and Richard Solomon ("The Last Samurai," "Women vs. Men"), with Lisa Moiselle ("Killer: A Journal of Murder"), Robin Budd ("The Siege") and Steven Pearl ("Attraction") acting as producers and Julie Glucksman serving as associate producer. "Lone Star State of Mind" was shot entirely on location in and around Austin, Texas.
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Now the series is down to its final two episodes (the final episode airs May 20), and the fate of "Buffy Studies" is up in the air. David Lavery, helping to organize the second Buffy Studies Conference in Nashville, Tenn., in 2004, says the end of the series will actually be just the beginning of the debate. "We are at the point where we're developing textual studies of Buffy and debates about what constitutes the actual text of Buffy," he tells Ulaby.
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Dushku declined the pitch for a Buffyverse TV series based on Faith and instead agreed to a deal to produce Tru Calling. Dushku explained to IGN: "It would have been a really hard thing to do, and not that I wouldn't have been up for a challenge, but with it coming on immediately following [Buffy], I think that those would have been really big boots to fill."[66] Tim Minear explained some of the ideas behind the aborted series: "The show was basically going to be Faith meets Kung Fu. It would have been Faith, probably on a motorcycle, crossing the earth, trying to find her place in the world."[67]
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Seth Green is the only cast member to have acted in both the TV series and the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). (Green was cut from the feature film, but still appeared on the videotape box.) more
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The series' narrative revolves around Buffy and her friends, collectively dubbed the "Scooby Gang", who struggle to balance the fight against supernatural evils with their complex social lives. A typical episode contains one or more villains, or supernatural phenomena that are thwarted or defeated. Though elements and relationships are explored and ongoing subplots are included, the show focuses primarily on Buffy and her role as an archetypal heroine.
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Lavery finds comfort in the words of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose theories are frequently invoked in Buffy Studies. "Nietzsche said the secret of life is to die at the right time -- and I think it's true of a television series, too."
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