Dolly Parton secretly produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and fans have only just found out:
While Parton was not herself credited as a producer on the long-running fantasy series, a company she co-created and owned was responsible for it coming to television.
Sandollar Entertainment, which is listed on the end credits of every episode of the show, was created by Parton and her friend and former business partner Sandy Gallin in 1986. It produced a number of films, including Father of the Bride (1991) and Fly Away Home (1996), as well as several Parton projects – most recently her Netflix anthology series Dolly Parton's Heartstrings.
It also produced the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, released in 1992 to dismal reviews. It was Gail Berman, then an executive at Sandollar, who still believed there was potential in the property, and proposed launching the concept as a TV series.
(Score: 5, Funny) by barbara hudson on Sunday April 26 2020, @06:09PM (14 children)
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(Score: 5, Touché) by Gaaark on Sunday April 26 2020, @06:29PM (4 children)
You've got a good point.
And Dollys got two!
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(Score: 5, Funny) by istartedi on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:23PM (2 children)
It looks like a pun thread might be busting out.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Gaaark on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:47PM (1 child)
Got milk?
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday April 27 2020, @10:01AM
Off-topic!?
Dolly has 2 big milk cans! Off-topic...no, someone just can't see....
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @05:21PM
I'd say he's got a couple of good points
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @06:57PM (1 child)
It explains why Buffy is a blonde too.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @11:31PM
Explains why Buffy is white too.
No. Wait. This show was before the world became Woke.
If they do a remake my money is on Buffy being black: half afro half red Indian with Asian adopted parents.
Yes that's "adopted parents" not "adopted by". New age, woke, blah blah.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:07PM (6 children)
Well, apart from Rhinestone [wikipedia.org], which I don't know what her involvement was outside of acting, but if she can survive that she can survive anything, she has had a pretty damn impressive career of savvy and successful projects.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:13PM (4 children)
and big hooters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:17PM
And Dollywood.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @01:01AM (2 children)
How the F is big hooters offtopic with Dolly? It's the first thing you look.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Reziac on Monday April 27 2020, @04:41AM
And if you don't, she'll make sure you do!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 4, Funny) by driverless on Monday April 27 2020, @06:25AM
They're definitely bigger than F's, gotta be G-cups at least.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday April 27 2020, @06:29AM
So what was her actual involvement in Buffy? From that story, a company she co-founded had someone who was an executive producer in Buffy, but there's no evidence in there that she even knew Buffy existed. Perhaps the reason it's "Parton’s uncredited involvement in Buffy" is because she wasn't involved?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:34PM
Should be #1 here
https://screenrant.com/buffy-vampire-slayer-best-villains/ [screenrant.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @08:18PM (1 child)
If Dolly was Buffy
Let’s reboot this show!
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Sunday April 26 2020, @08:30PM
Sounds like a job for DeepFakes.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @08:39PM (2 children)
It might be obvious to others who is more up to date than me, but why does Buffy bubble right now in the nerd-o-sphere? Would be nice to know instead of the subliminal influencer stuff to know if something new was on its way. Modern crowdadvertising is annoying as hell, I'd rather get the info straight up so that I can choose "interested", "not interested", instead of being groomed and prepared to be suceptible to a new product.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday April 26 2020, @08:53PM (1 child)
Buffy was always fairly popular, but some kind of reboot [wikipedia.org] is in the works.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @12:04PM
Not really a reboot, more like "Buffy: TNG." While there are some reasons to worry (namely that all the recycled nerd culture stuff has turned out to be awful), this is its own thing done by different people and should be judged on its own merits. The new showrunner is actually a fan of the original (imagine that!) and while Joss Whedon isn't involved day to day, it's being done with his blessing and advice.
However, I haven't really heard anything about it since 2018. There's no imdb entry or, as far as I can tell, any casting or script. It might be a dead project.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday April 26 2020, @09:38PM (2 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-M8nl112eo [youtube.com]
compiling...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 26 2020, @10:44PM
Based on a true story. Jolene was a chick that worked at a local bank and whooped Dolly's ass when she went down there to get her cat fight on.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday April 27 2020, @02:08AM
https://youtu.be/Tef-6HEcgOw?t=93
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @12:02AM (2 children)
I loved the Buffy movie from the first time I saw it.
It was written by Joss Whedon who later wrote the movie, Firefly, among other films.
I heard that he was very displeased with the Buffy film as he had not intended it to be a satire on the genre. He tried to remedy that in the TV production of it, but I found the TV version took itself far too seriously and hence was no fun to watch.
That Dolly was somewhere behind it all makes perfect sense in retrospect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @12:34AM (1 child)
Well known "feminist" Joss Whedon [thewrap.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by MostCynical on Monday April 27 2020, @05:15AM
Yes, while Joss cheated on his wife many times, please note that that article is an opinion piece, written by a jilted and angry ex.
Writing empowered, strong female characters, and even potentially 'feminist' films and television shows is not 'undone' by a writer sticking his dick in willing females (note, no one has suggested the recipients of his attention weren't willing.)
Here we start discussion on Death of Author [wikipedia.org]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by looorg on Monday April 27 2020, @12:50AM (1 child)
I guess they could reboot with Dolly in the lead -- show setting, Buffy had a hard life, a massive boobjob and is now "enjoying" retirement at the Sunnydale (I'm sure they rebuilt the town) Slayer retirementhome when ...
Not sure why but I kinda liked the movie more then the tv-show, the show just got worse by the season.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday April 27 2020, @02:12AM
The show was fun too, but it made the mistake of taking itself too seriously and by the end I didn't even know why I was watching anymore.
Angel was a decent spinoff while it lasted, but they never really got back to that initial level of fun.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by dwilson on Monday April 27 2020, @11:04PM
Okay, seems reasonable. I'm a fan of her music and know she does Good Things, so I'll keep reading because I'm interested.
So... -she- wasn't involved, a company she founded was?
Aha, details at last. So, -Gail Berman- is largely responsible, and used the resources of the production company he/she worked for to make it happen. A company which, incidentally, was/is owned by Dolly Parton.
I skimmed the article looking for details, and was unimpressed. This blurb jumped out at me:
I read the whole thing. No where is any light shone on this supposed fundamental role. From the information available, the only reasonable conclusion is that Dolly Parton personally had sweet Fuck All to do with Buffy the vampire slayer, and I defy anyone to prove otherwise. No, seriously. If there's information beyond the attention-whoring-headline article linked in the summery, I'd love to see it.
I mean, if this is the level of informational accuracy we're willing to accept, I might as well submit this story I just found from last february: Bill Gates secretly Saved Minecraft from Notch [venturebeat.com]. Bill Gates started Microsoft, so he's obviously the uncredited mastermind behind the GitHub purchase... right?
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