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Buffy the Vampire Slayer • The Next Reel
“I can’t believe I’m doing this. I can’t believe I’m in a graveyard with a strange man hunting for vampires on a school night.”
Fran Rubel Kuzui seems like an odd choice to end up helming a vampire comedy. Her only other film was Tokyo Pop, a drama about a young American woman trying to make it in Tokyo. But she and her husband, producer Kaz Kuzui, had found the script for Buffy the Vampire Slayer written by a then unknown writer named Joss Whedon, put the financing together with Dolly Parton’s production company, and got it made. Apparently, it was off-the-wall enough that the studio didn’t…
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