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Excerpt from an article I got courtesy of Google news alerts. Kudos to Google!
For some TV shows, meanwhile, animation is a chance at eternal life.
Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer have been salivating for more stories since the show went off the air last year after seven seasons. But star Sarah Michelle Gellar has expressed little interest in reprising her role.
Replacing her with another actress might be too jolting, but replacing her with a cartoon may be more palatable - even if a substitute performs the voice.
Animation artist Eric Wight has created concept drawings for the proposed animated Buffy series, which is being shopped around to networks but could also turn into a DVD film.
The stories would all take place during the characters' first year together in high school - which was the first season of the series. "Going back to the high school environment, they can spend as much time as they want there," Wight said.
Buffy creator Joss Whedon wants "to tell all the stories that he couldn't tell in the beginning, bigger stories with bigger monsters," Wight added. "He didn't want any monsters that looked like guys in suits. Here was his chance to do a dragon or do all different kinds of monsters."
The rest of the cast was willing to provide their own character voices and allow their likenesses to be transposed into cartoons. Gellar is the exception, "which is why her design always stayed in that generic cute, blond girl mould, but never came back to her exactly," Wight said.
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