Felicia Day Reacts to Canceled Buffy Reboot, Details The Guild: Ren Faire’d Reunion Movie
The Guild star and creator Felicia Day detailed her Ren Faire’d reunion movie in an exclusive interview with SYFY Wire at 2026 San Diego Comic-Con.
Felicia Day is reuniting the Knights of Good.
Nearly 20 years after The Guild premiered, the actress and creator of the pioneering web series felt the milestone anniversary called for a feature-length campaign.
“I don't want it to feel bloated or too fancy,” Day explained in an exclusive chat with SYFY Wire at 2026 San Diego Comic-Con. “We're going to be bringing back the same old Guild. It's just going to be a little bit more expanded.”
The Guild: Ren Faire’d, set to debut in 2027, will see Day’s Codex and her longtime pals coming together for the medieval festival. But if Hollywood execs had their way, the franchise’s next chapter would’ve looked a little different.
“They just wanted me to reboot the show with younger actors,” the Supernatural alum revealed. “I can't tell you the rage that I felt.”
Read on to learn more about what Day did envision for The Guild’s next adventure.
Why Is The Guild Getting A Movie Instead Of Another Web Series Season?
“I always wrote the show as a movie,” Day explained. “Other than the first season, which was written as a half-hour comedy, all the other ones were written as a feature.”
The Guild began rolling out short-form episodes in 2007, introducing the unlikely friendship between RPG players Codex, Tink (Amy Okuda), Vork (Jeff Lewis), Clara (Robin Thorsen), Bladezz (Vince Caso) and Zaboo (Sandeep Parikh).
“Doing it as a movie was not that foreign to me as a creator and hopefully won't be that foreign to the audience,” she added. “I did want to do it on a bigger scale and we need more budget for a ren faire.”
How The Guild Movie Will Honor Its Online Legacy
The Guild acquired a massive audience from level one, inspiring Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog (also starring Day) and countless other web-based shows during an inflection point for online communities.
“We were the first. YouTube was new. Nobody had an iPhone. Twitter had just been invented. There was a small, intimate feeling to the internet,” Day remembered. “Coming back to it [and] trying to launch this, I'm like: this is all broken. Nobody's connecting on Instagram. It just is not built for that. It's you consuming, not connecting.”
That said, she praised livestream experiences and the platform Discord for being “the only places you can have that sort of interactivity where you feel like you're with somebody,” Day shared. “That's what I love about the internet. That's what the zeitgeist of the movie is.”
How The Guild Broke Kickstarter Records
Twenty-four hours after launching its Kickstarter, The Guild: Ren Fair’d had the biggest movie launch day ever and was the fastest film to reach $2.5 million on the crowdfunding platform.
“We're still a low-budget movie. One hour of TV costs five to seven million, even more if it's a genre thing,” Day said. “We're still scrambling, but we're going to have the budget to be able to build my dream ren faire and be able to shoot in LA to get as many cameos as possible.”
And Nathan Fillion agreed to be the first of what’s sure to be a slew of familiar faces across Day’s prolific career, an almost 25-year filmography that started in Sunnydale.
Was Day Going To Be Part Of Buffy’s Next Chapter?
Before Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed Hulu's revival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had been staked, plans were being made to catch up with even more original series characters. One was Day, who played slayer-in-training Vi across season seven.
“I was so hopeful about the Buffy reboot. I even talked to the showrunner right after they wrapped the pilot,” Day pointed out. “She was asking all sorts of actors, ‘Would you be willing to come back if we make the show?’ Of course. We were all very excited.”
As were fans, who seemed all but certain to catch up with Buffy Summers in a Ryan Kiera Armstrong-led and Chloé Zhao-directed series. But even the O.G. chosen one and an Oscar-winning director only had so much say.
“I would love to see more Buffy. I would love to be a part of it. Whatever happens,” Day said. “I'm sorry for the fans. I'm sorry that they got so excited and are disappointed. That breaks my heart.”
