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Originally posted by maugwai:
On the show they regularly refer back to the time Buffy blew up the gym, which is from the movie. And there is one episode in S2: "Becoming, part one" where they actually show a scene from the movie recreated with Sarah Michele Gellar. So they definitely acknowledge the events of the film.

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Originally posted by Idefix:
I started reading the script a while back but somehow never finished it. being a good fan maybe I should.

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Originally posted by Idefix:
I think I got it from a Buffy fanfiction yahoogroup. can't really remember which one.

a quick search on google turned up this one:
http://www.movie-page.com/scripts/Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer.txt

Idefix

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Originally posted by Idefix:
I think I got it from a Buffy fanfiction yahoogroup. can't really remember which one.

a quick search on google turned up this one:
http://www.movie-page.com/scripts/Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer.txt

Idefix

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Originally posted by Idefix:
I think I got it from a Buffy fanfiction yahoogroup. can't really remember which one.

a quick search on google turned up this one:
http://www.movie-page.com/scripts/Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer.txt

Idefix

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"Bear witness to teenager Buffy Summers's transformation from simple high school student to super Vampire Slayer! Follow Buffy's trials and tribulations as she comes to accept her destined role to thwart the legions of the undead from spreading their veil of evil across Los Angeles. Adapted from creator Joss Whedon's original screenplay from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer feature film, The Origin updates the material to match the tone and characters of the hit television series, making this the official Buffy launching pad!"

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"The Buffy monthly takes a bold new direction under the guidance of former X-Men writers Lobdell and Nicieza. It's 1996, and Buffy Summers has just accepted her role as the Vampire Slayer. After the destruction of her high school, she flees to Las Vegas to sort out her life. Meanwhile, Watcher Rupert Giles wonders why on Earth his Slayer hasn't arrived in Sunnydale. The comic takes you where the TV show never did, back to the roots of everything, in the summer before Buffy arrived in Sunnydale. And there's a tall, dark, and handsome stranger keeping an eye on her during those dangerous nights in Vegas."

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"Continuing the look into Buffy's life before Sunnydale, we take a detour with Dawn -- a mysterious package is accidently delivered to the younger Summers sister, and the enchanted teddy bear Hoopy wreaks havoc upon the life of the little ten year old. Intended to destroy the Slayer, the gift leads Dawn unwittingly into her first adventure, years before she'd ever be accepted into the Scooby Gang."

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"Buffy returned from her runaway road-trip with Pike...only to discover that Dawn has read her diary, and shared what she found with their parents, who see no other choice: after she's burned down the school gym, run off to Vegas, and apparently lost her mind . . . they have her committed. Buffy #56 begins the first of a four-issue arc, "Slayer Interupted" by Scott Lobdell, Fabian Nicieza and Cliff Richards, in which we finally see what happened to Buffy in that mental institution."

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"Buffy Summers has faced vampires, demons and monsters but now she must face the scariest thing of all: the divorce of her parents! But with divorce comes all the bad feelings attached to it, for all the members of the family, and those bad feelings take on physical shapes. No vampire is safe as the tortured young Slayer takes her anger and frustrations to the streets of L.A. All the while she is being closely watched by the mysterious vampire with a soul, Angel."

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Originally posted by embers:
thank you very much for this! I've always wanted to read the original script.

And my understanding was that they didn't so much rewrite Joss' script as much as just throw it out the window...the director saw the film as out and out farce (which was not Joss' vision) and allowed all the actors to ad lib (Joss has still never forgiven Donald Sutherland for his total contempt for the script and ruining the concept by making up his own dialogue).

In fact if you want to see Joss get upset, talking about this movie always gets under his skin.
I think the joy of working on 'Serenity' had cured his aversion to movies however!

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Originally posted by captaincdc:

I have always wondered why Fran Rubel Kuzui (SP?) had an executive producer credit on BTVS the series. I figured with Joss being so mad about how the movie turned out that he would not have let any of the people that massacred his movie have anything to do with the series. Seeing as how Fran was the director, she should be the one most responsible for the way the movie turned out. I don't know if he was required to give her the credit because of director's possessory rights or what? Anyone have any thoughts on this matter?

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

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Originally posted by est120:

that is really neat and very creative, especially to re-shoot a sequence from the movie for the show with the show's cast.

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