Followers of feminist cult icons all over the place are reeling on the latest discovery that Dolly Parton, finest identified for slaying the nation music charts, had a producer facet 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 — shouldn’t be 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 corresponding to “Father of the Bride” (1991) and “Fly Away Residence” (1996). Extra not too long ago, they introduced the nation queen’s 2019 sequence “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings” to Netflix.
The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” present was primarily based on the 1992 movie flop of the identical identify which featured Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Luke Perry and Hilary Swank. Regardless of its failings, Gail Berman, govt 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 govt 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 in the present day years previous once I came upon that Dolly Parton was an uncredited govt producer on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’” 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 presumably assume extra extremely of this girl?!,” full with a “thoughts blown” emoji.