Editing Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film) (section)

==Production==
Writer Whedon sold the film to country singer [[Dolly Parton]]'s production company, Sandollar, in the fall of 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/movies/joss-whedon-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-118217991342.html |title=Remembering Buffy the Vampire Slayer film |publisher=Yahoo movies |date=May 5, 2015 |access-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref> Production was limited to five weeks to accommodate [[Luke Perry]]'s ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' filming schedule.<ref name="Robin Burks">{{cite news| url=https://screenrant.com/buffy-movie-shocking-trivia-facts/| title=Things You Didn't Know About the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Movie| author=Robin Burks| publisher=screenrant.com| date=2017-12-22| access-date=2018-02-18| archive-date=2019-02-03| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203002347/https://screenrant.com/buffy-movie-shocking-trivia-facts/| url-status=dead}}</ref> Whedon was inspired by ''[[Night of the Comet]]'' for the film's story.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/06/23/an-interview-with-joss-whedon | title=An Interview with Joss Whedon | date=23 June 2003 }}</ref>

Whedon was involved in an advisory role early in the production but departed after becoming dissatisfied with the direction the film was taking.<ref name="Robin Burks"/> Executives at [[20th Century Fox]] removed many of Whedon's jokes, believing the humor to be too abstract for audiences. They also disliked the darker elements in Whedon's original script, wanting to make it a lighter comedy. Merrick's suicide was replaced with his being killed by Lothos, and Buffy's burning down her high school gym to kill all the vampires was eliminated altogether.

All this led Whedon to finally walk off the set.<ref name="Robin Burks" /> He has been highly critical of actor Donald Sutherland's behavior on set, describing him as entitled and difficult to work with.<ref name="Tasha Robinson">{{cite news| url=https://www.avclub.com/joss-whedon-1798208181| title=Joss Whedon Interview| author=Tasha Robinson| publisher=AVClub| date=2001-09-05| access-date=2018-02-18}}</ref> Sutherland had a penchant for improvising or altering his lines in the script, which director Rubel Kuzui allowed him to do freely because he was the film's most high-profile star. Whedon felt this made Merrick's dialogue in the film disjointed and unintelligible.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://thoughtcatalog.com/nico-lang/2013/01/25-little-known-facts-about-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/| title=25 Little-Known Facts About 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'| author=Nico Lang| publisher=thoughtcatalog.com| date=2013-01-02| access-date=2018-02-18}}</ref><ref name="Tasha Robinson" />

Filming in [[Los Angeles]] included the ballroom of the [[Park Plaza Hotel (Los Angeles)|Park Plaza Hotel]], where Merrick lives and trains Buffy, [[John Marshall High School (Los Angeles)|John Marshall High School]] in [[Los Feliz, Los Angeles|Los Feliz]],<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/buffy.html#.WouKzXtFzIU| title=Film locations for 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'| publisher=movie-locations.com| access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref> and the gymnasium of [[University High School (Los Angeles)|University High School]] in [[West Los Angeles]], where the high school dance and vampire attack was filmed.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.vice.com/en/article/perverting-the-youth-of-america-the-oral-history-of-teen-classic-jawbreaker/|title='Perverting the Youth of America': The Oral History of Teen Classic 'Jawbreaker' | author=Mitchell Sunderland | publisher=Broadly | date=February 5, 2011 | access-date= July 20, 2017 }}</ref>