Joss Whedon

Joseph “Joss” Hill Whedon is a Scénariste and American Réalisateur born the June 23rd 1964.

A history of family

John Whedon, the grandfather of Joss, was scenario writer for sit-coms such as The Donna Reed Show and Leave it to Beaver in the years 1950. Tom Wheedon, the father of Joss scénarisé series such as The Dick Cavett Show , Alice and Benson in the years 1960 - 1970. As much to say that the scenario is a business of family for Joss Whedon.

First steps

After studies of cinema at the university of the University wesleyenne, Joss started to work on the series Roseanne , then on the series Parenthood . Lastly, in 1992, Joss Whedon are with the credits of the film Buffy, the vampire slayer , as scenario writer. But this film is well far from what Whedon wanted to do. He is not realizer of film, his scenario is altered to become lighter, nearer to a comedy teenager lambda. The actress Kristy Swanson is a little too smooth (the production of Buffy - the serial - will not want any to take again the role later five years), which seemingly adhesive with the project: a “popular” young girl ( Cheerleader , pretty but terribly surface) is elected by the destiny, it has a task to achieve, kill out of the vampires. The public is not packed and the film does not make speak about him.

Televised series

Buffy against the vampires

It does not give up the idea of Buffy and prepares a tele version. Instead of taking again the history told in film, Whedon decides that the series starts when the film finishes: Buffy leaves Los Angeles after its school took fire and comes to settle in the town of Sunnydale in California. A pilot is turned, with an actress different for the role from Willow. In 1997, to fill a hole in the grid of the programs of an American tele network, Buffy is programmed for a mid-season (12 episodes). Success will be immediate and the series can continue and be packed. This success is due to various ingredients, quote: very good actors for supporting characters, humor devastator (halfway between the comedy situation of Friends and that which one could find in the comic-book Spiderman - which as Buffy spoke while fighting and irritated its adversaries), a single use of the language (a book left on this subject to the university presses Cambridge), of the fundamental topics (to be young person in America of the years 1990…) and a scenaristic line which can leave in all the directions without never losing itself. Lastly, an esthetics California of the South camped well.

The success of Buffy authorizes Whedon to imagine episodes that nobody had never dared to realize for television American, such Hush which contains half an hour of completely dumb cinema, or ounce more with feeling , a musical comedy which, for the first time in the history of the kind, proposes to the spectator an assumption on why existence of the musical comedies. For the anecdote, it should be known that Joss Whedon and his wife composed all the songs of the episode and that those are far from being bad. Lastly, certain situations shock , there still new of premium-time, will mark the history of the series, such as the sudden invention of a little sister for Buffy, the death of several main characters or the Willow homosexuality.

Angel

In 1999, Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt extract the character from Angel - the vampire which has a heart - of Buffy and devote its own series to him, which will last five seasons. In Angel, the characters are sometimes common to Buffy, humor exists well, but the series is different: here “the devil”, they are not the problems of the teenagers. Angel occurs to Los Angeles, where the devil is not shown too much but… sends its lawyers. The enemy it is thus before everyone of the businesses, of appearances, cupidity, opportunism. Like Buffy, Angel will be improving, season after season.

Firefly

In 2002, Joss Whedon launched Firefly , a series of science fiction inspired by the time of the American Civil War of which the music of credits is composed besides by Joss Whedon. Well camped characters, extraordinary special effects of naturalness, in 12 episodes Firefly conquers a public of impassioned fans who will have unfortunately to remain on their hunger: three additional episodes will be turned but not diffused, the series is abandoned. Fox, which at the time indeed, diffused the series in a disrespectful way: the order of the episodes was not respected, and the time box of Firefly changed almost each week. Difficult thus for the fans, to follow the adventures of Evil Reynolds and his crew.

It is then with the turn of Buffy to arrive at a dead end: the public is there but more Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress, wearied by the role… At the end of the seventh and last season, Buffy and its friends seek a tueuse news to take again the torch, these episodes resemble a casting, and it is well what they are actually! The miracle does not take place: nobody will replace Buffy.

Let us notice all the same that the series has one of best the end of the history of television. (Contrary to X-files, for example…) Indeed the quality of its scenario proves that it is not bâclée, the more so as it closes the loop compared to the first season, and the history of the mouth of the hell.

In the tread, Angel disappears, the leaders of chains doubting the capacity of this series to fly of its own wings.

Ripper

At the time of being held Comic-Idiot 2007 with San Diego, Joss Whedon announced that a telefilm centered on the character of Gilles was under development. Envisaged for English channel BBC, this telefilm part of the life of the observer of Buffy will tell us, when this one was done called Ripper in its youth. The actor british Anthony Stewart Head will take again the role which it incarnated in the series TV.

Films

Joss wrote or Co-writing the scenario of many films:

It also carried out the film Serenity , feature film adapted of the series Firefly , made possible by the success of the edition out of box DVD of Firefly.

It also gave specific knacks on various scenarios such as those of Speed , Waterworld , Twister or X-Men .

Associated a long time with the cinematographic project of adaptation of the adventures of Wonder Woman, Joss Whedon, which were to produce and to direct film finally gives up it because of artistic dissensions with the company Warner Bros, two parts not having known to get along on a scenario.

Its next film will be entitled Goners, character completely left his imagination. The film is for the moment water stage of the rewriting.

Joss Whedon, with the assistance of Drew Goddard, finished the scenario of a film of horror entitled has cabin in the woods.

Joss Whedon has just finished the scenario of a short-measuring which it will carry out: The Serving Girl. In the first role: Summer Glau !

Cartoons

Joss Whedon scénarisé the mini-series Fray at Dark Horse Comics, an extension of the series Buffy against the vampires putting in scene Tueuse of a future where the creatures of the night are supposed to have disappeared.

It scénarise also Astonishing X-Men at Marvel Comics, series drawn by John Cassaday.

Currently Joss Whedon work over the eighth season of Buffy against the vampires in a version comics. Always published at Dark Horse Comics, this cartoon will thus show the continuation of the stopped series since June 2003. Whedon writes the first 4 volumes, and the last 4 volumes. One will find throughout the season several scenario writers of the television series. Initially envisaged with 25 numbers, Joss Whedon stated to have re-examined the number with the rise for a rising total mintenant with 50 numbers.

Joss Whedon also prepares a season 6 of Angel. Indeed we discovered who does after the fifth season without the series in the form of comics, published by IDW. This series named " After the fall" includes/understands for the moment only 12 numbers.

To note

Whedon is one of the rare scenario writers of television to be itself truly imposed like Auteur . Like he says it itself: “I never worked very well for television general public . I like the surprises, but television is not interested in surprised” the

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