# Ripper is a go? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492 "2007-08-30T13:49:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/1 "2007-08-30T13:49:13Z")
I’m surprised I haven’t seen this discussed – at least according to this [article](http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celeb_news/Pete_Doherty_to_play_zombie_article_139786.html), Josh Whedon is going ahead with the Ripper sequel to Buffy that was being talked about a few years back. More Anthony Stewart Head goodness. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/2 "2007-08-30T14:21:36Z")
I’ve heard about it through other sources, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Not before. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/3 "2007-08-30T14:37:17Z")
Joss (not “Josh”) Whedon did mention \*Ripper \* at the recent [ComicCon](http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/28/comic-con-joss-whedon-panel-breaking-news/). > [@](#): > > I’ll have a full report later, but good news for Buffy fans. Joss is currently in talks with the BBC and Mr. Anthony Stewart Head. Plans are almost a go for RIPPER! Ripper is the long-rumored story of Giles pre-Buffy. Who knows what the plot will actually be, but Whedon reported here at Comic-Con - literally, like, five minutes ago - that negotiations are close to finished on a ninety minute BBC special - Ripper. But the good folks at [Whedonesque.com](http://Whedonesque.com) regard this latest update as rather suspect. I believe the phrase “tabloid trash” was used. Keep your fingers crossed–but don’t hold your breath! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/4 "2007-08-30T14:42:03Z")
Good frickin’ lord, Tony Head will be using Depends before this thing is greenlighted! (greenlit?) Are they really going to still use him to play a pre-\*Buffy \*Giles? Is there some mystical aging phlebotinum involved? Of course, anything by Joss, and I’m so there. Drool, slobber, fanslurp and all that… ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/5 "2007-08-30T14:43:14Z")
Who is “Josh” Whedon? The OP should double-check his sources; I don’t think Jos **s** Whedon would trust this project to anyone other than himself. Is this really going to be the story of Giles pre-_Buffy_? I’d always heard it was going to be about Giles as a former Watcher, back home in England after his sunny Sunnydale days. Of course, that was years ago, when _Ripper_ was first proposed, after ASH had left the show as a regular and before Joss had conceived of the “Season 8” comic book, which puts Giles back in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/6 "2007-08-30T15:08:25Z")
I’d read a description of it where Giles just bookends a story that doesn’t actually feature him, kinda like the Crypt Keeper or like David Duchovny in _Red Shoe Diaries_. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/7 "2007-08-30T21:03:46Z")
I hope it’s about Giles’ wayward youth, getting caught up with a dangerous crowd, studying the occult, and earning the Ripper nickname. I’d love to see his origin, and what finally puts him onto the straight and narrow path with the Watchers. Rupert Giles = a kinder, less bastardly, more intellectual John Constantine. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/8 "2007-08-30T21:08:35Z")
😃 but I loved how he dispatched Glory! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/9 "2007-08-30T21:29:14Z")
[QUOTE=ouryL] 😃 but I loved how he dispatched Glory! 😛 [/QUOTE] That’s what I mean – he’s a badass, and can be quite intense and even violent if you threaten the people he cares about. He was always the one willing to make the hard choices, do the horrible things, and shoulder the guilt when Buffy and the others couldn’t. That’s what Constantine has made a career of doing, except his gentle, tender side is a lot more hidden than Giles’. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/10 "2007-08-30T21:57:11Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] Rupert Giles = a kinder, less bastardly, more intellectual John Constantine. [/QUOTE] That’s what I’ve always thought! Especially since “Band Candy.” But if it’s a pre-_Buffy_ storyline, they can’t credibly use Anthony Stewart Head. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripper-is-a-go/417492/11 "2007-08-30T22:08:25Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] I’d read a description of it where Giles just bookends a story that doesn’t actually feature him, kinda like the Crypt Keeper or like David Duchovny in _Red Shoe Diaries_. [/QUOTE] I didn’t even know the Crypt Keeper was in _Red Shoe Diaries_.