'There is Interest' — Fan-Favorite Buffy The Vampire Slayer Actor Teases New Sunnydale Series Return

Buffy the Vampire Slayer histrion James Marsters has said there's been "interest" successful him reprising his iconic relation arsenic Spike successful the upcoming Hulu continuation bid Buffy: New Sunnydale.

Speaking connected Charisma Carpenter's The Bitch is Back podcast, Marsters revealed helium had precocious rewatched the classical Buffy bid to effort and "get back" into the headspace of playing beloved British vampire Spike — though cautioned that immoderate on-screen instrumentality arsenic the quality would apt inactive not beryllium for immoderate time.

Buffy: New Sunnydale — the franchise's upcoming continuation bid that's being worked connected by Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar — is inactive finalizing plans for its archetypal play having changeable its aviator occurrence past summer. Now, Marsters has said that portion helium expects to return, helium would beryllium "surprised" if it was earlier the show's archetypal play finale.

James Marsters. Image credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for ReedPop.

"I didn't rewatch for a agelong time. And I precocious did, conscionable due to the fact that of this full reboot issue," Marsters said. "I had to spell backmost and ticker it conscionable to inquire myself, 'Can you play that quality again?' Never caput the externals, tin you internally get backmost to that psychology?"

At this point, Carpenter asks Marsters precisely what helium is implying with returning to the quality of Spike, and whether helium was confirming that Spike would so look successful New Sunnydale.

"I americium not, I person nary idea... let's see, what tin I say..." Marsters replied. "There is involvement successful having maine back."

Previously, Gellar has said she'd similar to yet see different classical Buffy characters successful New Sunnydale beyond Buffy herself (who fans judge volition person a comparatively insignificant relation successful the pilot, and past simply enactment arsenic a recurring quality afterward, portion the show's main absorption is connected its caller Slayer and her friends).

But this is the archetypal clip immoderate different histrion from the classical Buffy epoch has indicated that they whitethorn beryllium progressive — adjacent if Marsters himself believes helium won't look for immoderate time.

"If I was producing the reboot, I wouldn't telephone maine yet," helium continued. "I would person to bash the root communicative of the caller slayer, I would person to present each of her friends, I would person to acceptable up the caller world, and I would person to get them into astatine slightest 1 caller escapade unneurotic earlier I dropped successful immoderate different characters — whether it's different caller characters that I imagine, oregon whether it's characters from the archetypal show. So I wouldn't ideate I would beryllium called until, astatine the earliest, the extremity of play one, perchance into play two. That's erstwhile I'd bash it.

"I conjecture I would beryllium amazed if I was not called," helium concluded, "and I'd beryllium amazed if I was called now."

James Marsters' quality primitively began his beingness (or death) successful the classical Buffy bid arsenic a villain, with archetypal plans simply for Spike to look concisely wrong the show's 2nd season. But the character's popularity led to Spike aboriginal becoming a bid regular and a halfway portion of the amusement — adjacent transferring implicit to Buffy spin-off Angel erstwhile the erstwhile bid finished.

Spike's aboriginal narration with Buffy herself remains 1 of the series' hotly-debated storylines, portion his destiny successful Angel — alongside the remainder of that show's formed — was near connected a cliffhanger owed to that series' untimely cancelation. If Spike does so instrumentality successful New Sunnydale, fans volition nary uncertainty beryllium fascinated to spot wherever the past 20 years has taken him.

For now, though, there's nary clearer connection connected erstwhile New Sunnydale volition proceed accumulation connected its archetypal play — oregon erstwhile it volition beryllium released. "I cognize we unrecorded successful a nine wherever we privation binging, we privation it now," Gellar said earlier this month, discussing the information that enactment was inactive continuing down the scenes. "I cognize this seems similar it's taking a agelong time, and that's due to the fact that unless we're definite it's precisely what we acceptable retired to bash and that it makes consciousness to bash it, we don't privation to sully the legacy. When I cognize it's perfect, past it volition beryllium retired there. But I won't bash it unless I cognize it tin beryllium that."

IGN antecedently spoke with Carpenter herself arsenic she launched her caller podcast, who told america that she was "hopeful" for a New Sunnydale instrumentality aft an "unjust" extremity to her quality Cordelia.

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