Joseph Hill Whedon is an American film director, producer, writer, and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions, he co-founded Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series. Whedon co-wrote for the Pixar animated film Toy Story. He wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films The Avengers and its sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. He also wrote the script for the DC Extended Universe superhero film Justice League.
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Joseph Hill Whedon is an American film director, producer, writer, and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions, he co-founded Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series. These include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Whedon co-wrote for the Pixar animated film Toy Story. He wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films The Avengers and its sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. He also wrote the script for the DC Extended Universe superhero film Justice League. He also served as director for Justice League on re-shoots replacing Zack Snyder. Whedon is a son of Tom Whedon, a screenwriter for Alice in the 1970s and The Golden Girls in the 1980s, and a grandson of John Whedon, who worked on The Donna Reed Show in the 1950s. His mother, Ann Lee Stearns, originally from Kentucky, was a teacher at Riverdale Country School as Lee Whedon, and an aspiring novelist. His parents both acted, and appeared in a play together at the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club. Whedon graduated from Wesleyan University in 1987, where he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2013. He became one of the highest paid screenwriters when he sold his Afterlife script to Columbia Pictures for USD 1.5 million. In 1997, Whedon created his first television series, Buffy the vampire Slayer. The series depicts Buffy Summers, the latest in a line of young women called to battle against vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness.
The final episode of the series was nominated for a Hugo Award and a Best Dramatic Presentation Award. Whedon has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the released versions of the films Buffy theampire Slayer, Titan A.E. and Alien Resurrection. He has also written several films, including Toy Story and The Cabin in the Woods, which earned him a shared Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He worked as a script doctor on films including The Getaway, Speed, Waterworld, and Twister. He was an uncredited writer on the sitcoms Roseanne and Parenthood, from 1989 to 1990, and worked on an early draft of Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Whedon came up with the first incarnation of Buffy Summers. The idea came directly from his aversion to seeing the Hollywood formula of \”the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie\”. Whedon said he wanted to subvert the idea and create someone who was a hero. The writing came from the emotional issues and how she would confront them in her battle against supernatural forces. He usually directed episodes from his own scripts that held that most cathartic moments in Buffy’s story. In 2002, the fall musical episode “Once More, with Feeling More” was written by Whedon and directed by Allie Curnow. The episode received numerous awards and nominations, including an Emmy Award nomination.
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