Joss Whedon

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Joss Whedon (b. June 23, 1964) is the creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. He also worked on several film scripts, and wrote the Dark Horse Comics mini-series Fray, and the X-Men comic book Astonishing X-Men. He attended Winchester College before receiving a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987.

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Television work

After moving to Los Angeles, Whedon secured his first writing job on the television series Roseanne.

Whedon has described himself as the world's first third-generation TV writer. He is the son of Tom Whedon, a successful screenwriter for The Golden Girls in the 1980s, and the grandson of John Whedon, a writer for The Donna Reed Show in the 1950s.

Buffy

Years after seeing his script for the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer mangled by the director (the resulting film was poorly received by critics and audiences), he revived the concept as a television series of the same name. The show went on to become a critical and cult hit, with the episode "Hush" receiving an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding writing in a drama series in 2000. Whedon wrote and directed the musical episode "Once More, with Feeling" (also Emmy-nominated), which featured the show's original cast in singing and dancing roles.

Firefly

In 2002 Firefly, which he produced with Tim Minear, was canceled by Fox after only 11 episodes. Following a successful DVD release of the series, Whedon announced in early 2004 that his proposal for a Firefly movie had been "greenlighted" by Universal Studios.

Movies

Joss is directing the Firefly movie Serenity, which is scheduled for release in the USA on 2005-04-22.

Whedon is the author or co-author of several other movies including Toy Story, Alien: Resurrection and Titan A.E.. He also wrote uncredited drafts or re-writes of Speed, Waterworld, Twister and X-Men.

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