What kinds of Buffy spin-off series would you like to see made?
Well, we’re already doing some of them, the Giles spin-off. That’s been much talked about right now. What Joss is doing is really smart. I think that’s going to be a great show, I get that entirely.
Faith, although she’s not a regular [would be another]. Certainly I had imagined a long time ago doing a fugitive Slayer, a Slayer on the run from the law, on a motorcycle, travelling. Kind of a fugitive, getting involved with people’s lives and at the same time fighting the forces of darkness. I think Faith would make an amazing show, except that Eliza’s a big movie star and we will probably never get that.
Willow has grown. Alyson’s a wonderful actress and she’s growing into an amazing character. Willow’s gone through a lot of changes and I can certainly see that being another show we could spin off in the future.
I think the fact of the matter is this universe is infinite in its possibilities. We have a rich past of Slayers that we’re creating in graphic novels that can be utilised as spin-offs. Joss has created a future slayer, Fray, in comic book form that I’m dying to see as a movie some time. There’s always going to be many, many different avenues we can explore and I hope to be a part of each of them.
As you mentioned, you are doing a Tale of the Slayer
Yes, I did a Tale of the Slayer. Immediately, when Joss came in and said "Want to do a graphic novel about Slayers from the past?" I immediately went to a Western. I just thought it would be really interesting to see Western conventions played out with a Slayer in the Old West.
I wrote one about a Navaho Slayer. Looking up different tribal mythologies, just to see if something sparked, I found [that in] Navaho mythology, their creation mythology, the world before people came was overrun with monsters.
They sent twins into this world. One twin was called Born For Water, who would make the earth plentiful and prepare for the people, and the other’s twin was called Monster Slayer and Monster Slayer was sent to this world to kill all the monsters to make it safe for the people. I went "That’s our show, that’s Joss’s mythology for Buffy." It was just amazing. I said "I must use this," so I explored an interesting little tale about the twin called Monster Slayer back in the Old West.
