Joseph Hill "Joss " Whedon [1] (; [2] born June 23, 1964) is an American director, executive producer, occasional actor, and creator and head writer of the television programs Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel , Firefly , and Dollhouse . He has also written several film scripts and comic book series.

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Early life

Whedon was born in New York City and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1987. Before going to Wesleyan he spent two years at Winchester College in England. He has been described as the world's first third-generation TV writer, ^[3] as he is the son of Tom Whedon, a successful screenwriter for The Electric Company in the 1970s and The Golden Girls in the 1980s, and the grandson of John Whedon, a writer for The Donna Reed Show in the 1950s. ^[4] His mother, Lee Stearns, was a high school teacher and novelist. ^[5] He is the older brother of writers Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon. ^[6]

Career

Television work

Following a move to Los Angeles, Whedon secured his first writing job on the television series Roseanne . After several years as a script doctor for films, he returned to television, where he created four TV shows.

Years after having his script for the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer produced – the interpretation by director Fran Rubel Kuzui having been poorly received by critics ^[7] and audiences ^[8] – Whedon revived the concept as a television series of the same name. Buffy the Vampire Slayer went on to become a critical and cult hit. Its episode "Hush," which was written and directed by Whedon, received an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding writing in a drama series in 2000. The show ran for five seasons on The WB Network before being relocated to the UPN Network for its final two seasons, after a bidding war for the broadcast rights. Though it premiered on Mondays at 9 pm, Buffy ran from the middle of the second season on Tuesdays at 8 pm.

Angel was a spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , featuring Buffy's vampire-with-a-soul boyfriend as the title character. It was created by Whedon with Buffy writer David Greenwalt. Tim Minear also contributed at essential key junctures. Debuting in September 1999 on the WB, the show was broadcast following Buffy on Tuesday evenings. After Buffy switched networks in 2001, Angel aired in a number of different time slots. The WB canceled the show in February 2004 while it was in its fifth season.

In 2002, FOX canceled Firefly , which Whedon produced with Tim Minear. Only 11 of 14 episodes were aired, many out of intended order — the original ninety-minute pilot ("Serenity") was aired last. After the cancellation, Whedon wrote the script for a Firefly movie, titled Serenity . Excellent DVD sales ensured the movie would be produced, and in early 2004 Whedon announced that it had been greenlit by Universal Studios. Shooting started in July 2004, and the film went into wide release in the United States on September 30, 2005. In the DVD release, Whedon discusses how Serenity would not have been made if not for the dedication of Browncoats, the fans of the series.

In August 2007, Eliza Dushku, with whom Whedon worked on Buffy and Angel, signed a development deal with FOX. ^[9] Shortly afterwards, Dushku and Whedon met over lunch to discuss possible ideas for a series for her. During the meal, he came up with an idea which excited both of them, and Whedon agreed then to write and oversee the pilot airing on FOX. ^[10] Whedon announced that he will be working with "a completely new bunch of people" who are "intelligent and supportive." ^[11] The show, Dollhouse , was announced by Fox in November 2008 to begin airing on February 13, 2009. ^[12] When asked about returning to Fox, Whedon stated, "These are different people [...] they didn't do to me what was done to Firefly ." Since Firefly , Fox has come under new management and former NBC executive Kevin Reilly has taken over as President of Entertainment. ^[13]

Whedon is revered as one of the more influential figures in sci-fi and fantasy TV programming. ^{[14] [15]} He has been described as "an object of worship for viewers who like their television smart and funny and transcendent." ^[16] J. J. Abrams states:

"Joss’ storytelling is always that perfect storm of wit, deep emotion and passion for genre. His brilliant characters make familiar territory brand spanking new—and damn if he can’t write a catchy song, too." ^[17]

Despite this, Whedon has been described as "a notoriously slow starter ­– neither Buffy nor ... Angel really hit their stride until their second seasons, while Firefly was just reaching its peak when ... it was abruptly cancelled". ^[18]

Whedon finds that television offers greater storytelling opportunities than online media and movies:

"The fact is, network TV has something to offer the other mediums don’t. ...[With] a TV show, you get to examine a story, if you’re lucky, for a really long time. And that in some ways is the most rewarding kind of storytelling—when you turn something over in your palm and look at it again and again and find new things to say about it. I love that structure … that opportunity to play with (characters) for so long."

However, he has also had a number of planned television projects that have become stuck in development or terminally stalled. Among these was a Buffy animated series, a set of made-for-television movies for The WB based on Angel and Buffy characters, and Ripper , a proposed BBC pilot about Rupert Giles. Ripper was announced to be in development at the San Diego Comic-Con 2007. The development process was set to begin in 2008 and Ripper to be shown that summer. ^[19]

He directed the 2007 episodes of The Office entitled "Business School" and "Branch Wars". ^[20]

Whedon is not an actor, but has made cameos in his shows, in a show produced by a friend and in one of his favourite shows. He appeared as a newsreader in season one of Buffy (1997) and in the second season of Angel (2001), Joss Whedon made a cameo appearance as the character Numfar under heavy makeup. In Firefly (2003), Whedon appeared as a guest at a funeral. He appeared as an overbearing rental-car service manager in a second season episode of Veronica Mars called "Rat Saw God" (2005); Whedon is a vocal fan of Veronica Mars . He voiced himself in two episodes of Seth Green's television series Robot Chicken entitled "Rabbits on a Roller Coaster" (2007) and "Help Me" (2008).

Feature films and video

Whedon wrote or co-wrote several films, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Toy Story , Atlantis: The Lost Empire , Alien Resurrection and Titan A.E. . He was nominated (along with six other writers) for an Academy Award for Toy Story s screenplay.

He also wrote uncredited drafts or rewrites of Speed , Waterworld , Twister and X-Men , although in interviews, Whedon disowned the latter three films. He claimed that he had a good script for Alien: Resurrection , which he felt was spoiled by its director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. ^[21] His Waterworld script was thrown out, and only two of his lines were kept in the final script of X-Men . ^[22] Even the Buffy movie bore little resemblance to his original screenplay. ^[23] According to Graham Yost, the credited writer of Speed , Whedon wrote most of its dialogue (see examples of credit conflicts in the WGA credit system).

He wrote and directed 2005's Serenity , based on his television series Firefly . Serenity won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. Beginning in January 2006, fans (with Universal's blessing) began organizing worldwide charity screenings of Serenity ^[24] to benefit Equality Now, a human rights organization supported by Joss Whedon. Over $250,000 has been raised for Equality Now since 2006. 2009's goal is to raise $155,000. As of May 1, 2009, 42 cities were registered for CSTS 2009 in 4 Countries and 24 US States. ^[25]

Whedon had been signed to write and direct Warner Bros.' adaptation of Wonder Woman but on February 3, 2007, Whedon announced that he would no longer be involved with the project. "We just saw different movies, and at the price range this kind of movie hangs in, that's never gonna work. Non-sympatico. It happens all the time." ^[26]

One aspect of the storyline of the film X-Men: The Last Stand bears a strong similarity to a plotline in Whedon's comic book Astonishing X-Men : the notion of a cure for mutation. The scientist who discovers the cure in the movie is named Dr. Kavita Rao, as is the scientist in the comic book storyline, though the characters are quite different. Whedon's story in turn bears a striking resemblance to a 1993 episode of the X-Men animated series, entitled "The Cure", written by Mark Edward Edens. ^[27] In both Whedon's and Edens' stories, the scientist who claims to have discovered the cure is secretly working with a superpowered enemy of the team (Apocalypse on the TV show, Ord in the comic book), a plot device that doesn't occur in the film script. According to Simon Kinberg, a studio executive who had read Whedon's comics asked him and Zak Penn to incorporate some version of the mutant cure idea into their script. ^[28] In a 2005 interview with Empire Online , Whedon expressed an interest in directing a Harry Potter movie, being a fan of the book series. ^[29] He has written several Harry Potter-related jokes in his stories.

Whedon wrote a horror film entitled The Cabin in the Woods with Drew Goddard which is currently in production with MGM, with Goddard directing. He called it "The horror movie to end all horror movies... literally." ^[30]

In November 2008, Whedon guest starred in the premiere episode of The Write Environment , a direct to DVD series featuring in-depth, candid one-on-one interviews with some of TV's most prolific and well known series creator/writers. ^[31]

Comic books

Whedon, a lifelong comic book fan, is the author of the Dark Horse Comics miniseries Fray which takes place in the far future of the Buffyverse. Whedon returned to the world of Fray during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight arc, "Time of Your Life". ^[32]

Like many other authors from the Buffy TV show, he also contributed to the show's comic book version: he wrote three stories in the anthology Tales of the Slayers (including one featuring Melaka Fray from Fray ) and also the main storyline of the five-issue miniseries Tales of the Vampires .

The three-issue miniseries Serenity: Those Left Behind , based on the Firefly series and leading up to the film Serenity , was released June through August 2005. Co-written with Brett Matthews and pencilled by Will Conrad, the first issue featured covers drawn by John Cassaday, J.G. Jones, and Bryan Hitch, as well as other artists for the second and third issues. The first two issues went to a second printing. The trade paperback featured a new cover by acclaimed painter Adam Hughes.

A second three-issue Serenity miniseries Serenity: Better Days , was released in March, April, and May 2008. "Better Days" reunites Whedon, Matthews, Conrad, and Adam Hughes, who will provide all three covers. The three covers form a larger panorama of the ship's crew. "Better Days" is set before "Those Left Behind", and features the full crew of Serenity. A trade paperback featuring a cover by Jo Chen was released in October 2008.

Whedon and others have mentioned that more Serenity comics are planned for the near future, and will be based in the Firefly continuation of the series, including one about Shepherd Book. ^{[33] [34] [35]} Likewise, Whedon and other former Buffy writers have released a new ongoing Buffy which takes place after the series finale "Chosen", which he officially recognizes as the canonical "Season 8". The first issue was released on March 14, 2007 by Dark Horse Comics. Following the success of issue one of Buffy season eight, IDW Publishing approached Whedon about similarly producing a canonical Angel Season 6. ^[36] Angel: After the Fall has 14 issues published as of November 19, 2008 with 3 more to come following the adventures of Angel and his team after the TV series ended, where the title of the series will then change to Angel: Aftermath . ^[37] Although Whedon has not had the time to write the series, he has served as executive producer with Brian Lynch, writing the season 6 story. ^[38]

Whedon wrote Astonishing X-Men in Marvel Comics' popular line of comics about the X-Men but finished his 24 issue run in 2008 and handed over the writing reins to Warren Ellis. The title, recreated specifically for Whedon, has been one of Marvel's best-selling comics as of 2006 and was nominated for several Eisner Awards including Best Serialized Story, Best Continuing Series, Best New Series and Best Writer, winning the Best Continuing Series award in 2006. One storyline from this comic, the notion of a cure for mutation being found, was also an element in the third X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand . Whedon also introduced several new characters into the Marvel Universe such as the villainous Ord, X-Men Ruth "Blindfold" Aldine and Hisako "Armor" Ichiki, Runaway Klara Prast and Special Agent Abigail Brand, along with S.W.O.R.D., the organization she commands.

Whedon is the second writer of the critically acclaimed and fan-favorite Marvel comic Runaways , taking over after series creator Brian K. Vaughan completed his run. ^[39] Whedon had been a fan of the series for some time, and had a letter published in the first volume, which was included in the Volume 1 hardcover.

Whedon's other comic-related work includes writing the introduction to Identity Crisis trade paperback and a contribution to the "jam issue" Superman/Batman #26 (to date his only published work for DC Comics), writing short pieces for Marvel's Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man and Giant-Size X-Men #3 and also being the subject of an issue of Marvel Spotlight (alongside artist Michael Lark'').

In February 2009, Astonishing X-Men #6, which depicted the return of Colossus to the title, and concluded Whedon's first story arc on that title, was named by Marvel Comics readers the #65 in Marvel's Top 70 Comics of all time. ^[40]

Online media

Whedon has ventured into the world of online entertainment, explaining that he wants to "keep exploring the idea of the independent producer on the Internet," as he feels that non-aligned producers have been largely "drummed out of TV." In 2005 he released a series of online shorts titled the R. Tam sessions, starring himself and Summer Glau, which served as a form of viral marketing for Serenity . In 2007, he launched a free webcomic, titled Sugarshock! hosted on Dark Horse comic's Myspace page. ^[41]

In March 2008, Whedon teamed up with his brothers Zack Whedon and Jed Whedon, along with Jed's then-fiancée Maurissa Tancharoen to write, compose and produce the musical superhero spoof, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog . The musical stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day. Whedon conceived of Dr. Horrible over the year before and production took place over seven days during the Writers Guild strike. The project was freely available online from July 15 until July 20. It is currently viewable for free (USA only and with brief commercials), on . It is also available on iTunes, and for DVD and Audio CD purchase. ^[42] In August, Whedon released a new Serenity/Firefly comic free online Serenity: The Other Half . ^[43] In September, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Soundtrack, made the top 40 Album list despite being a digital exclusive only available on iTunes. ^[44] The Soundtrack was successful enough to pay its crew and all its bills. ^{[45] [45]} Whedon is a regular guest at Whedonesque.com, which New York Magazine describes as one of the Net's most powerful online fan communities. ^[47] In February 2009, he stated that after his series Dollhouse is over, whether by cancellation or reaching its end, that he plans on putting his efforts purely into on-line content like Dr. Horrible . ^[48] In the Dr. Horrible bonus feature Commentary! The Musical! , Joss sings the song "Heart (Broken)" about the crippling scrutiny and commercialisation of producing fiction for a modern consumer audience.

Common themes and motifs in Whedon's works

Feminism

Whedon identifies himself as a feminist, and feminist themes are common in his work. For his part, Whedon credits his mother, Lee Stearns, as the inspiration for his feminist worldview. When Roseanne Barr asked him how he could write so well for women, he replied, "If you met my mom, you wouldn't ask." ^[49]

The character Kitty Pryde from the X-Men comics was an early model for Whedon's strong teenage girl characters: "If there's a bigger influence on Buffy than Kitty, I don’t know what it was. She was an adolescent girl finding out she has great power and dealing with it." ^[50] Kitty Pryde was one of the main characters in Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men .

Whedon was honored at an Equality Now benefit in 2006: "Honoring Men on the Front Lines", ^[51] and his fans raised a considerable amount of money in support of the organization. ^[52]

Dialogue

The dialogue in Joss Whedon's shows and movies usually involves pop culture references both notable and obscure, and the turning of nouns into adjectives by adding a "y" at the end of the word ("listy"). According to one of the Buffy writers, "It's just the way that Joss actually talks." ^[53]

Whedon also heavily favors the suffix -age (Linkage, Lurkage, Poofage, Postage, Scrollage, Slayage). ^[54] Also, phrasal verbs usually ending with "out" are changed into direct verbs, for example "freak" rather than "freak out", "bail" rather than "bail out", or "hang" rather than "hang out". Whedon also tends to change adjectives into nouns such as "happy", "shiny" (positive thing), "bad" (mistake), "funny" (joke). So many of Whedon's altered usages, new words, and heavily popularized words have entered the common usage that PBS in their article series "Do You Speak American" included an entire section on "Slayer Slang". ^[55]

Personnel

Joss Whedon is known by fans to regularly reuse actors, actresses, writing staff, producers and other personnel from his various other projects. For example, Eliza Dushku has appeared in three of the four television series Whedon has created (Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel and Dollhouse ). Other actors who have appeared in multiple television series or films by Whedon include Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy and Angel ), Alyson Hannigan (Buffy and Angel ), David Boreanaz (Buffy and Angel ), Charisma Carpenter (Buffy and Angel ), Tom Lenk (Buffy , Angel and The Cabin in the Woods ), Alexis Denisof (Buffy , Angel and Dollhouse ), Seth Green (Buffy and Angel ), James Marsters (Buffy and Angel ), Mercedes McNab (Buffy and Angel ), Julie Benz (Buffy and Angel ), Juliet Landau (Buffy and Angel ), Amy Acker (Angel , Dollhouse and The Cabin in the Woods ), Nathan Fillion (Firefly , Serenity , Buffy and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog ), Gina Torres (Firefly , Serenity and Angel ), Adam Baldwin (Firefly , Serenity and Angel ), Summer Glau (Angel , Firefly , Serenity and Dollhouse ), Alan Tudyk (Firefly , Serenity and Dollhouse ), Felicia Day (Buffy , Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and Dollhouse ), Fran Kranz (Dollhouse and The Cabin in the Woods ), Mark Sheppard (Firefly and Dollhouse ), and many others.

In addition to acting talent, Whedon also frequently employs the writing and producing credits of many others that he has worked with in the past. Marti Noxon and David Fury, for example, not only wrote for Buffy the Vampire Slayer , they also appeared on-screen during ''Buffy the Vampire Slayers musical episode and in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in small singing parts. Noxon helped to run Buffy on a day-to-day basis while Whedon was juggling Angel and Firefly during the year that all three were on the air. Whedon also spun off and co-created Angel with fellow Buffy writer and producer David Greenwalt. Tim Minear, who had worked with Whedon on both Buffy and Angel previously, was also a key element in running and production of Firefly during its time on the air. Whedon also co-wrote the upcoming horror film The Cabin in the Woods with Drew Goddard, another former writing staff member of his. Whedon's siblings Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon, along with Jed's wife Maurissa Tancharoen, assisted Whedon in the writing and creation of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and both Jed and Maurissa are now also staff writers for Whedon on Dollhouse''. Other writers that Whedon frequently collaborates with include David Solomon, Drew Greenberg, Jane Espenson, Steven S. DeKnight, Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain, Ben Edlund, Jeffrey Bell, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Mere Smith, Doug Petrie and several others, most commonly those included in his company Mutant Enemy Productions.

Spiritual and philosophical beliefs

Whedon has identified himself as an atheist on multiple occasions. When interviewed by The AV Club on October 9, 2002, Whedon answered the question "Is there a God?" with one word: "No." The interviewer followed up with: "That's it, end of story, no?" Whedon answered: "Absolutely not. That's a very important and necessary thing to learn." ^[56] In one of the Buffy DVD commentaries, Whedon comments that "I don't believe in the 'sky bully'", referring to God. ^[57] In addition, during a question and answer session found on the Serenity DVD with fans of the Firefly series at Fox Studios in Sydney, he identifies himself as an atheist and absurdist.

Whedon has also spoken about existentialism. On the Firefly DVD set, Whedon explains in detail how existentialism, and more specifically the book Nausea , by Jean-Paul Sartre, was used as a basis for the episode "Objects in Space". ^[58] On this commentary he claimed interest in existential ideas and described the impact of Nausea on his early life.

Whedon also identifies himself as a humanist. In April 2009, the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard presented Whedon with the 2009 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. ^[59]

Filmography

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), writer
• Speed (1994), writer (uncredited)
• Toy Story (1995), writer
• Alien Resurrection (1997), writer
• Titan A.E. (2000), writer
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), writer
• Bandwagon (2004), actor
• Serenity (2005), writer, director
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008), creator, writer, director, executive producer (Acts I and II), producer (Act III).
• The Cabin in the Woods (2010), writer, producer
• Goners (2011), writer, director

Television

• Roseanne (1988), writer
• Parenthood (1990), co-producer, writer
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), creator, writer, director, executive producer, actor (1 episode, uncredited)
• Angel (1999-2004), creator, writer, director, executive producer, actor (episode "Through the Looking Glass" as Numfar)
• Firefly (2002), creator, writer, director, executive producer, actor (1 episode, uncredited)
• Buffy the Animated Series (2004), creator, writer, executive producer
• Veronica Mars (2005), actor (episode "Rat Saw God" as Douglas)
• Dollhouse (2009-present), creator, writer, director, executive producer

Awards

Awards won

Nebula Awards:

• Best Script - Serenity (2006)

Hugo Awards:

• Best Dramatic Presentation - Serenity (2006)
• Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2009) ^[60]

Eisner Awards:

• Best Continuing Series (with John Cassaday) - Astonishing X-Men (2006)
• Best New Series (with Brian K. Vaughan, Georges Jeanty, and Andy Owens) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (2008)
• Best Digital Comic (with Fabio Moon) - Sugarshock! (2008)

Prometheus Award

• Special Award - Serenity (2006)

Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard:

• Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism (2009)

Awards nominated

Academy Awards:

• Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - Toy Story (1996)

Emmy Awards:

• Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - Buffy, the Vampire Slayer , for the episode "Hush" (2000)

Hugo Awards:

• Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - "Waiting in the Wings" (Angel , 2003)
• Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - "Serenity" (Firefly , 2003)
• Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - "Chosen" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer , 2004)
• Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - "The Message" (Firefly , 2004)
• Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - "Not Fade Away" (Angel , 2005)
• Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - Smile Time" (Angel , 2005)
• Graphic Story - Serenity: Better Days (2009) ^[61]

Nebula Awards:

• Best Script - Buffy, the Vampire Slayer , for the episode "Once More, with Feeling" (2003)
• Best Script - Buffy, the Vampire Slayer , for the episode "The Body" (2002)

Saturn Awards:

• Best Writing - Screenplay for Toy Story (1996)

Streamy Awards:

• Best Directing in a Comedy Series - for the series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2009) ^[62]
• Best Writing in a Comedy Series - for the series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog with Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon (2009) ^[62]

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