How is this for a project? Inspired by wmgan’s project, this is a different take on making Buffy movies from the TV series.
I actually like the 1992 movie with Kristy Swanson better than the TV series. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed what I have seen of the TV series as well. What I might do is make a sort of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2” movie, maybe more.
Here’s how Buffy the Vampire Slayer II would start:
Probably a scene from the series set in the 1800’s, so it’s like the movie, then:
(from Season 2, Becomming, Part 1, Chapter 12): (everything is the same as the original, unless noted)
Manhattan 1992 (changed from 1996)
Whistler talks to Angel and he takes him to:
Los Angeles, 1992 (again, was 1996)
Angel pulls up in the car, rolls down the window and spies on Buffy and her friends walking and talking. (Need to change the reference to her boyfriend as Tyler into Jeffery as it was in the movie). The friends leave and Buffy sits down. (The scene ends before “Merrick” appears).
using scenes from the movie, cut with scenes of Sarah Michelle Gellar in place of Kristy Swanson. (Should be simple, since most of the time they are shown separatly anyway. Donald Sutherland as Merrick says these lines, “I was looking for you. My name is Merrick, and you have been chosen, Buffy. Everything depends on you. Now you must come with me now to the graveyard while there’s still time. Time to stop the killing, to stop the vampires.” Buffy (Kristy, offscreen) says this, “You want me to go to the graveyard with you because I’m the chosen one and there are vampires?” and he replies, “Yes.” If there’s a way to somehow make it look as though Angel is somehow spying on them in the gym, that would be cool.
Back to the “Becomming” scene, in the graveyard:
same as before, only when Merrick says his line from the show, “You see? You see your power?” he is not shown and the camera stays on Buffy. Then it cuts to her coming home.
Dubbed over is her mother’s voice from the movie, “Do you know what time it is?”, Then cut to Buffy in her bedroom, again using audio from the movie so her parents can’t be heard arguing in the background, since in the movie they went out to a party or something.
Angel is watching all of this and says to Whister, “I wanna help her.” and the scene continues on until the end.
Cut to scene from the first episode where Buffy is laying in bed sleeping. The subtitle reads, “Sunnydale, California, … months later” (not sure how much time was supposed to have passed.)
this continues on until she is talking with the principal and he rips up her LA records. After Buffy says, “It wasn’t that bad.” the whole thing about burning the school down is cut. His next line is, “OK, don’t worry. Any other school, they might say watch your step…”
Not sure where I would go from there, as I am not really familiar with the TV series that much. I’ve seen a few episodes here and there and I own seasons 1-4 and Angel season 1 on DVD so far. What episodes would be good to use for the rest of this project? If there could somehow be the scene with the death of Merrick (from the movie) and something showing how Buffy and Pike broke up, (possibly using scenes of Luke Perry from 90210 or something) that would be cool. I’m not sure what would be necessary or not to make a sequel or two to the Kristy Swanson movie using the series and possibly the Angel series. Or maybe this is just a stupid idea. Whatever. Any thoughts?
Is there a good scene where Buffy is in a gym or in any movie or show with Sarah Michelle Gellar standing by herself in a background similar to the one Kristy Swanson is standing in front of in the “chosen one” scene from the movie? Preferably a scene where she doesn’t speak?