'90s Icon Sarah Michelle Gellar Is Set to Play the Grim Reaper - in a Romance Movie
A supernatural romance film seems right up the alley of Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Millennials grew up watching the 1990s staple, 49, in hits like I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions and, of course, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
And now, fresh off her juicy turn in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, Gellar is set to star alongside Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks) in the upcoming movie Thud, where they'll respectively play the juicy roles of the Grim Reaper and the Devil, Deadline reports.
The romance story sees the infamous personas meet cute at a three-day destination wedding, falling in love after colliding at the event where they've each come to sow their own chaos, Deadline also noted on Tuesday, June 16.
Gellar's other recent projects include Showtime's Dexter: Original Sin and a cameo in Sony's reboot of the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise.
Pankow, 28, will next be seen in Hulu's comedy Never Change!, which is coming off its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, per Deadline.
Thud will be helmed by Mali Elfman, whose feature directorial debut was the genre-bender Next Exit, which also premiered at Tribeca and was released in theaters in 2022.
Earlier this month, Gellar paid tribute to Anthony Head after the fellow Buffy actor died at age 72. The actress took to Instagram to share a quote from their beloved series, something she had done for both the passing of Michelle Trachtenberg and Nicholas Brendon.
She posted: "Tell Giles I figured it out and I'm ok" Well I don't have it figured out and I'm not ok. But I know I'm the lucky one because I knew you. Thank you to Daisy and Emily who not only shared their dad with me, but with the world."
While including the line from the show, she added her own words, because quite frankly, she doesn't "have it figured out."
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This story was originally published June 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM.