Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in the works with Sarah Michelle Gellar reprising her role as Buffy Summers, Deadline reports today. 

The small screen revival from Hulu will be directed by Chloé Zhao (Nomadland).

Deadline reports this afternoon, “A follow up series is nearing a pilot order from Hulu, with Sarah Michelle Gellar expected to star.” Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (“Poker Face”) wrote the pilot.

The new take is being described as “the next chapter in the Buffyverse.”

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series ran from 1997 to 2003 and starred Sarah Michelle Gellar. The series was based on based on the film of the same title, which starred Kristy Swanson. “Buffy is a Slayer, one in a long line of young women chosen for a specific mission: to seek out and destroy vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. Unlike her predecessors, Buffy establishes a group of supportive friends who aids her in her battles with evil, including Willow, Xander and Cordelia. Her battles with evil are frequent, since Sunnydale, where Buffy and friends live, sits atop a gateway to the realm of the demons.”