Joss Whedon

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Joss Whedon
Birth name:	Joseph Hill Whedon
Gender:	Male
Medium(s):	Film; Television
Roles:	Producer; Executive producer; Director; Writer
Date of birth:	June 23rd, 1964
Place of birth:	New York City, New York
1st Horror:	Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Joss Whedon is an American film and television director, producer and writer. He is responsible for creating the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise as well as several other programs including Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. Joss was born Joseph Hill Whedon in New York City, New York on June 23rd, 1964.

Whedon developed and wrote the screenplay for the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui. Although the film received poor reviews from critics, Whedon re-invented the concept for a television series, which began airing in 1997. 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.

Body of work[]

Film[]

Film	Year	Role
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	1992	Writer
Alien: Resurrection	1997	Writer

Television[]

Programs

Series	Years	Role
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	1997-2003	Executive producer; Director; Writer
Angel	1999-2004	Executive producer; Director; Writer

As a director[]

Angel[]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer[]

Films[]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

As a writer[]

Angel[]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer[]

Films[]

Notes & Trivia[]

For Alien: Resurrection, Joss Whedon went through five different versions of the final battle with the "Newborn" creature, the first four versions of which all took place on Earth in such settings as a hospital maternity ward, a giant junkyard, a snowy forest and cliffside, and a desert. He originally scripted the Newborn creature as a four-legged, eyeless, bone-white creature with red veins running along the sides of its head. It had an inner jaw, similar to the all the other aliens. It also had a pair of pincers on the sides of his head. These pincers were used to hold its prey still as it drained the prey of blood with its inner jaw. The creature was also larger, nearly the size of the queen alien. In later script revisions, the creature was changed into a "more believable" hybrid of human and alien. ^[1]

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References[]

↑ IMDB; Alien: Resurrection; Trivia section

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[1] IMDB; Alien: Resurrection; Trivia section

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