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"Anthony Head has described a planned big-screen remake of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as &amp;quot;a hideous idea&amp;quot;.  The 57-year-old, who played &amp;#039;watcher&amp;#039; Rupert Giles for the entirety of the show&amp;#039;s six-year run between 1997 and 2003, despaired at the exclusion of creator Joss Whedon from the project.  &amp;quot;[Joss] wasn&amp;#039;t asked [to do the movie] - in fact, I think they went to great lengths not to ask him,&amp;quot; he told E! Online. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a hideous idea. &amp;quot;I think ultimately he had the idea when he was 19, took it around Hollywood and two people said, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ll make your movie&amp;#039;. They changed the original concept\u2026 I&amp;#039;m very glad they&amp;#039;ve done very well with it since, all power to them, but I don&amp;#039;t think [you can take] someone&amp;#039;s concept and say, &amp;#039;Actually we&amp;#039;re going to remake our concept of somebody else&amp;#039;s concept&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s nonsense. Not that I feel strongly about it,&amp;quot; he joked.  Head previously described the notion of a Buffy reboot as &amp;quot;horrible&amp;quot; and likened the finished movie to &amp;quot;a car wreck&amp;quot;.  His former Buffy co-stars Nicholas Brendon and Eliza Dushku have also criticised the project, but Whedon admitted last year to having &amp;quot;mixed emotions&amp;quot; about his absence.  &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t love the idea of my creation in other hands,&amp;quot; he confessed in November. &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;m also well aware that many more hands than mine went into making that show what it was.&amp;quot;  &amp;gt; Anthony Head teases NBC&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Free Agents&amp;#039; Watch Anthony Head discuss Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Digital Spy below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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