by Chris Snelgrove
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The runaway success of Buffy the Vampire Slayer led to development angel Spinoff that focused on the titular vampire with the spirit memorably played by David Boreanaz. Admittedly, this offering was less than the overall quality of the original, however angel It is rightfully remembered as one of the best spin-offs in television history. What a lot Buffy However, little do fans realize that we are about to get something even better angel: A spinoff of faith focusing on famous vampire slayer Eliza Dushku.
Buffy Faith Spinoff
This idea was the brainchild of Tim Minear angel The writer who later became an Emmy-nominated executive producer American Horror Story. after Buffy the Vampire Slayer The series ended in 2003, and Minear wanted to follow up the show with a spin-off series based on Faith that would follow the Slayer's adventures after she returned in Season 7 to help Buffy save the world. Originally, Menear conceived his show as an “encounter of faith.” Kung fu“.
This is, of course, a reference to the amazing 1970s TV show starring David Carradine in which the main character wanders the Old West, righting wrongs wherever they encounter them. while Buffy Focusing mostly on the static location of Sunnydale, Minear wanted the Fath spinoff to have a title character who is “probably on a motorcycle, crossing the Earth, trying to find her place in the world.” He admitted that this show “is going to have an arc at some point”, but felt that “the idea of her being rooted somewhere seemed wrong to me” and that “the idea of her constantly being on the move seemed right to me”.
While it originally appeared in Buffykeeping Faith moving in this spinoff would actually pay off for one of its biggest storylines angel. As Menear points out, Faith escaped from prison in this show to help stop Angelus (the sadistic, amoral monster that Angel turns into when he loses his soul). She later went to Sunnydale to help Buffy stop the First Evil, but “there could have been some people after her” after the prison break, which might explain Faith constantly moving from place to place in her own role.
Why didn't it happen?
after Buffyfans were hungry for more, and the Faith spin-off would likely be successful due to Eliza Dushku's popularity, so why was this spin-off never made? The main reason is that Dushku felt Sarah Michelle Gellar She left some “really big shoes to fill”, and that “sometimes you have to follow your gut, and my gut was telling me that maybe I needed to try something else that was completely different.” In short, she wanted to do some non-Buffyverse related work, which is why she ended up as a main character in the supernatural drama. A real calling.
As hardcore Buffy Fans know that this Faith spinoff is just one of many canceled projects in Whedon's universe. There were also ideas for a Giles spinoff, a Spike movie, an animated movie, and even a Slayer School spinoff featuring some of the newly minted Slayers from Buffy's seventh season. While all of these could have been fun (especially Giles' showdown), none of them had the massive potential of a spinoff featuring Faith. That's because, as this rogue killer once said, fans are always ready to “thank God” for “hot chicks with superpowers.”
