More Buffy and Less Joss?

For the uninformed Buffy the Vampire Slayer started in the US as a purposely terrible Vampire movie in 92. Joss Whedon wrote the script and Kuzui, who still owns the rights, directed. Then a few years later Whedon in 97, created the Buffy series that we all know and love. It lasted seven years and spawned a spin off tv series Angel, a continuation of the series in comic book form, and numerous other books, and comics and magazines. All of which where supervised and or written by Joss Whedon.

So whats this about Buffy being done without Joss? Whedon's version of Buffy has spawned a worldwide cult following. When anyone thinks of who created Buffy they think Joss, how do and where do they expect to market it? Well for starters they won't be using Buffy, they'll be developing a new Slayer, none of the well know side characters will be making an appearance, we don't even know for certain that it will be in present day. Who knows it might even be worth watching. Unlikely though, the humor of the script written by Whedon was the only thing that made the movie remotely worth watching, now all we've got is the rather iffy judgment of the people that remake Japanese horror movies.

Personally I'm not all that excited, though I would LOVE to see a vampire movie come out that was actually about vampires and not about strange sparkly fairies masquerading as vamps. So I suppose that I could welcome this new addition to the buffyverse, if nothing else it would help to counteract the latest aberration New Moon.