Rejected 'Buffy' cartoon leaks online

A promotional clip for the aborted Buffy The Vampire Slayer cartoon series has leaked online.

The previously unseen three-minute clip, currently on YouTube, was created in 2001 to attract financial backers for the animated spinoff. However, the project failed to be picked up, despite being masterminded by Buffy creator Joss Whedon and featuring most of the television cast on vocal duties, with the notable exception of Sarah Michelle Gellar.

In 2003, Whedon told the Hollywood Reporter the reasons for the animated Buffy's demise: "We just couldn't find a home for [it]. We had a great animation director, great visuals, six or seven hilarious scripts from our own staff - and nobody wanted it. I was completely baffled.

"I felt like I was sitting there with bags of money and nobody would take them from me. It was a question of people either not wanting it or not being able to put up the money because it was not a cheap show."

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