Sarah Michelle Gellar May Return for Cruel Intentions TV Pilot

So it turns out that NBC is trying to get Sarah Michelle Gellar to reprise her role of Kathryn Merteuil in the TV-based follow up to the classic movie, Cruel Intentions. The 1999 classic was a modern adaption of 18th-century French novel ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ and starred Gellar as a rich and highly manipulative schoolgirl in what was quite possibly her most iconic role after Buffy.

In every generation, there is a slayer. This… is not her.

According to Deadline, the basic plot of the Cruel Intentions TV adaption is;

“It follows the beautiful and cunning Kathryn Merteuil — the character played in the film by Gellar — as she vies for control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey, the son of her step-brother, the late Sebastian Valmont (Phillippe), and Annette Hargrove (Witherspoon).”

Set fifteen years after the events of the movie, NBC has just greenlit the shooting of a pilot episode and Gellar’s presence would really help to bolster the pilot’s credibility; in the eyes of both the fans and the studio. This is obviously important if they want to have a full season of Cruel Intentions ordered.

Deadline reports that Gellar has not yet agreed to return and is currently reading the script.

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