James Marsters, who played the Vampire Spike in Joss Whedon’s long running Buffy The Vampire says that a spinoff for his much loved character is still a possibility.

He had this to say on the potential project…

“Oh, yeah, when Angel was coming down, [creator] Joss [Whedon] came to me and said, ‘Do you want to do a Spike project? And I said, Heck yes. In fact, whatever you want to do, whether it’s Spike or not, wherever I am in the world, just call me. I’ll come running. But you have seven years, Joss, because I don’t want to do Spike aging. Let’s keep him the same age, and I think that I can hold that look for about seven years before it starts to become too different.’ Maybe there’s a few more years, but at this point, really it would all have to do with a camera test. Can we light my face in such a way that it’s still in the same ballpark as what the audience is used to? If that’s possible, then I think that it would be a good thing to do.”

Marsters though, admitted that selling a Spike series would be a tough pitch, adding, “I think that Buffy has always been swimming upstream, it’s always been fighting uphill. It’s no different now. You would have to really get behind it and sell it, even if Sarah [Michelle Gellar] were the lead. But asking the powers that be to put their money
behind a secondary character of that show, there’s just resistance. I think if Sarah wants to come back, I’ll jump on behind her again, but I think that’s the way there would probably be something else.”

So will there be a Spike spinoff?

My gut feeling is no.

Do I want a Spike spinoff?

Again, no. No thanks, I’ve moved on.

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