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| Joss Whedon is an American television producer, writer, director, and (sometimes) actor...<<type more here!>>
| | Best known for: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series) | | | ESSENTIAL WHEDON: FILM AND TELEVISION CREDITS | |
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| Dollhouse
| 2008 | Creator, Writer, Director, Producer | "Who do you want me to be?" |  ECHO... | Firefly
| 2002-2003 | Creator, writer, director, producer | "You can't take the sky from me" | Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small, mobile, spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them. | Angel
| 1999-2004 | Creator, writer, director, producer | "Live fast. Die never." | The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
| 1997-2003 | Creator, writer, director, producer | "In every generation there is a chosen one... She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer." | Buffy Summers is a teenage girl whose destiny is to be the Slayer. She fights vampires, demons and everything that goes bump in the night. To Buffy's aid come Giles, and trusty yet stuck-up British watcher, Willow, her geeky friend, Xander who has a crush on her and Angel, the mysterious vampire with a soul. | The Office
| 2007 | Director | "A comedy for anyone whose boss is an idiot." | A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium. Based on the hit BBC series.
Joss' episodes:
- Branch Wars
- Business School
| Roseanne
| 1989 | Writer |
| 'Roseanne' is the story of a working class family struggling with life's essential problems: Marriage, Children, Money and Parent's in Law.
Joss' episodes:
- Chicken Hears - Chicken Hearts
- Brain-Dead Poets Society
- House of Grown-Ups
- Little Sister
| | Veronica Mars | 2005 | Actor | "Life's tough. She's tougher." | After her best friend is murdered and her father is removed as county sheriff, Veronica Mars dedicates her life to cracking the toughest mysteries in the affluent town of Neptune.
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| | Parenthood | 1990 | Writer |
| A show based on the 1989 Steve Martin film, about the parents, children, and grandchildren of a family. Joss wrote or co-wrote three episodes, one with future "Passion" writer Ty King. Joss wrote the following (according to TV.com):
- The Plague
- Fun for Kids
- Small Surprises
| | Heroes | 2008 | Actor |
| A fantasy series about ordinary people with extraordinary powers. | | Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | 2008 | Writer, Director | "Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo.” | In Joss Whedon's own words: "A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few." |
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| "The future is worth fighting for." |  They're armed, she's dangerous. | | Toy Story | 1995 | Co-Writer | "The adventure takes off!" | A cowboy toy is its owner's favorite plaything until a fancy new spaceman toy enters the house. | | Titan A.E. | 2000 | Co-Writer | "Saving the galaxy one planet at a time!" |
| | Alien: Resurrection | 1997 | Writer | It's been more than 200 years - The beginning has just started. | Fourth in the sequence of Alien movies. 200 years after Alien 3 an alien/human hybrid Ripley clone and a band of space outlaws must fight to stop a vast space station full of aliens and an alien queen reaching Earth. |
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|  If you love Buffy... | Astonishing X-Men
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| The X-Men take on a living Danger Room and the population of Breakworld in one of the most exciting arcs of X-Men history. | SugarShock!
(webcomic) | 2007 | Writer | "KISSY TH' FACE" | Dandelion (who hates Vikings) and her band are invited to an extraterrestrial Battle of the Bands where they play "the saddest song in the world" and save said world.
Also available in print in MySpace Dark Horse Presents Vol. 1 | Runaways
(Comic Book) | 2007 - 2008 | Writer |
| Dead End Kids. A six issue arc (Runaways 2nd series #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 and eventually #30) of Runaways, created by Vaughan and Alphona. The Runaways escape Wilson Fisk, The Punisher, a lot of ninjas etc. by using Leapfrog's overdrive. They end up in New York in 1907 where they find their problems remain very much the same. |
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| | | MUCH-ANTICIPATED UPCOMING PROJECTS
| | | Project: | The Cabin in the Woods | | Release date: | October 2009 | | Description: | "The horror movie to end all horror movies, literally."
-- Joss Whedon, Comic-Con, 2007
"It's its own sub-genre, the cabin in the woods, and this is sort of our take on it."
-- Drew Goddard, MTV Movies Blog, 2008 | | Project Status: | Pre-Production | | | Project: | Goners | | Release date: | Unknown | | Description: | "It’s the story of a young woman’s journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics."
-- Joss Whedon, Variety, 2005
"Obviously, Goners is about human connection, and loneliness, and responsibility, and power, and the things that I inevitably end up writing about, because they're the only things that interest me."
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| | |  JOSS WHEDON TRIVA | | LINKS & FANSITES
| | - The names of his kids are Arden and Squire.
- The name of his typewriter was Mutant Enemy.
| | | | JOSS WHEDON QUOTES | - "My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars."– TV Guide, December, 2003 - January, 2004
- "SERENDIPITY fans happen to be the most tastefullest fans who have
extra or redundant body parts."– http://tinyurl.com/49r89c,February, 2006 - "Be like Xander in “The Zeppo”: Have Faith"–Whedonesque, July 1, 2007
- "People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else."–Whedonesque, November 10, 2007
- "...if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do..." - "ANGEL" in Angel, Episode 216, "Epiphany" - episode is written by Tim Minear
- "I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine.' It will be dark and badly received."–Angel TV Preview,Entertainment Weekly, September, 2003
- "We had a theme and the theme was shiny floors..." - Commentary for "New Moon Rising", Buffy DVDs
- "You can either watch TV or you can make TV..." Underground Online, interview by Michael Patrick Sullivan
- "Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn't suck." - Liner notes for "Once More, With Feeling" soundtrack
- Remember to Always be Yourself ... Unless you suck.
- You get so many people out here with incredible technical expertise who have nothing to say, or no idea of the importance of having something to say, or the importance of understanding what theyr'e saying.
- This is simply going to be the most fascinating piece to television in the history of radio. (Joss on Dollhouse)
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| | | | JOSS AND ME
What does Joss's work mean to you? Add your praise, insights, and reviews below.
|  | Username: The One True b!X
| Favorite Whedon project: Session 416
| Why? Partly because of running its primary fansite at the time. But really, see below.
| | Mini-review: Masterfully efficient short-form storytelling. | |
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| Username: marvelknight616
| Favorite Whedon project: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
| Why? Buffy taught me so much about life and pain and growth and becoming, completely changing the way I view people thanks to the complex and very real characters. Also, Whedon's passion and care for his audience revolutionized my perspective on television and gave me a great new pool of entertainers to enjoy.
| | Mini-review: My favorite show ever, following flawed and wonderful characters and employing vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness as an allegory for life. | |  | Username:mysoulisbrown
| Favorite Whedon project:Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv show)
| | Why?Because at the age of 11, Buffy showed me that girls can be heroes too. | | Mini-review: Great characters, great dialogue, and some vampires to make things interesting. | |
|  | Username:Astonishing_Chaos
| Favorite Whedon project: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (comic and show)
| Why?: The show opened up a whole different perspective
| | Mini-review: | | | | Username: asaneismRnuTs
| Favorite Whedon project: The JossVerse in general
| Why? because the characters are never boring and the writing have helped open up the English language to me.
| | Mini-review: Entertaining on the surface, life changing and the ultimative geek-fest when you look closer. | |
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| Username:makeqfit
| Favorite Whedon project: Buffy
| Why? Watched it when it first came out and recently re-watched seasons 1 thru 7 in a fortnight. Utterly brilliant.
| Mini-review: Makes you think there is more than heaven and earth.
| |  | Username: Tabz
| Favorite Whedon project: Don't make me Choose!
| Why? I love everything Whedon does to some extent, he's an amazing judge of character not only in his writing, but also in the people he chooses to surround himself with. That's where the magic happens.
| | Mini-review: Compelling characters tell the story, the setting is secondary. | |
|  | Username: MysteriousTwinkie
| Favorite Whedon project: All of them. It changes with my mood.
| | Why? I crave smart writing, well-developed characters, and unpredictable plots. | | Mini-review: Any time Whedon takes a ridiculous situation or person and stirs my sympathy, I suspend my disbelief. Amazing. | | | | |
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