Followers of feminist cult icons all over the place are reeling on the current discovery that Dolly Parton, finest identified for slaying the nation music charts, had a producer aspect gig that introduced late ’90s teen sci-fi sequence “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to tv.
Parton — who not too long ago donated $1 million to coronavirus analysis — just isn't credited as a producer on the present itself (neither is it confirmed that she’s even seen it), a manufacturing firm she co-created and oversaw introduced the present to the WB in 1997.
The present credit Sandollar Leisure, which Parton co-founded with with the late Sandy Gallin in 1986. Collectively they produced traditional household movies reminiscent of “Father of the Bride” (1991) and “Fly Away Dwelling” (1996). Extra not too long ago, they introduced the nation queen’s 2019 sequence “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings” to Netflix.
The present was based mostly on the 1992 flop “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” starring Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Luke Perry and Hilary Swank, however Gail Berman, government producer of Sandollar on the time, nonetheless believed the idea had potential for tv.
The sequence, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy and Alyson Hannigan (“How I Met Your Mom”) as finest pal Willow, lasted for seven seasons till 2003.
Berman and Gallin are listed as government producers within the sequence credit, together with the spinoff “Angel” — however followers are simply now freaking out on Twitter concerning the Parton connection. Some even speculated that Buffy’s birthday, January 19, is an homage Parton, who celebrated her 74th on that day this yr.
“I used to be at present years outdated after I came upon that Dolly Parton was an uncredited government producer on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’” wrote one shocked fan posted on Twitter.
“What? WHAT?????????????????????????????????” one other chimed in.
And one tweeter summed up the overall response by posting, “How may I probably assume extra extremely of this girl?!,” full with a “thoughts blown” emoji.
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