'They're just milking the cow for money...' Celebs who slammed reboots of their original work

'They're just milking the cow for money...' Celebs who slammed reboots of their original work

Kristen Dunst as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man (2002-2007)

Kirsten Dunst - who played Peter Parker's love interest Mary Jane in the 2002-2007 Spider-Man trilogy - isn’t impressed by later versions.

She told Marie Claire: ""We made the best ones, so who cares? I'm like, 'You make it all you want.' They're just milking that cow for money. It's so obvious. You know what I mean?'".

Holy Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell in Charmed (1998-2006)

The 52-year-old actress - who played middle sister Piper Halliwell across eight series in the supernatural drama - slammed the CW reboot for capitalising on her hard work.

Combs tweeted: "Here's the thing. Until you ask us to rewrite it like [showrunner] Brad Kern did weekly don't even think of capitalizing on our hard work.

"I will never understand what is fierce, funny, or feminist in creating a show that basically says the original actresses are too old to do a job they did 12 years ago… Reboots fair better when they honor the original as opposed to taking shots at the original".

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003)

The 48-year-old actress - who slayed the role of Buffy Summers in the 90s supernatural series - made it clear she would not be involved in a Buffy reboot, preferring to leave the original as a legacy.

She said: I am very proud of the show that we created and it doesn’t need to be done. We wrapped that up.

“I am all for them continuing the story, because there’s the story of female empowerment.

“I love the way the show was left: ‘Every girl who has the power can have the power.’ It’s set up perfectly for someone else to have the power. But like I said, the metaphors of ‘Buffy’ were the horrors of adolescence. I think I look young, but I am not an adolescent".

Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins (1964)

Julie Andrews passed the umbrella to Emily Blunt in 2018's Mary Poppins Returns.

Director Rob Marshall told Entertainment Weekly: "She said, ‘This is Emily’s show, and I really want it to be Emily’s show. I don’t want it to be, 'Oh, here comes that Mary Poppins,' ... I really want her to take this and run with it, because she will be brilliant'".

George Clooney as Doug Ross in ER

According to George Clooney you don't mess with the original.

He said: "When you look at the show, over so many years, it would be hard to say you could do it at the level that we did it. It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle again".