[twoodfin]

Say what you will about Joss Whedon, but his use of a colorful character palette & quirky, punchy style of dialog have gone from niche to mainstream in the 30+ years since Buffy. Mostly thanks to Whedon’s and his imitators’ escalating success with that formula: The Avengers, for example, took Marvel from a series of above-average superhero hits to total cultural dominance.

There’s plenty of writing talent out there that grew up wanting to emulate Buffy and Firefly, so if hearts and budgets are in the right place, recapturing that part of the show should be eminently feasible.

[Ntrails]

Some of the skill (imo) was creating characters who naturally set up opportunities for those dialog trees. That at least is already done for firefly

[Dusseldorf]

I'm a little nervous about this affecting it negatively. Back when Buffy and Firefly were on the air, they felt so unique due to the dialogue style. But now that'll just seem like every single generic superhero movie. Hopefully it can buck that feeling somehow.

[in_cahoots]

The Buffy revival was just canned this weekend, so I wouldn't get too optimistic here.

[Aeolun]

I feel like Buffy doesn’t work so well in the modern era, unlike animated firefly? Not entirely sure why though. Maybe part of the charm of Buffy is the setting?