"Always be yourself....unless you suck."
- Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon is the writer/director who created such iconic television shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and my personal favorite, Firefly. His career doesn't stop there, however, he also created the TV show Dollhouse, wrote the Firefly spin-off movie Serenity, and created the Time Magazine Top 10 Web Series Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog. At the start of his career, he wrote two movies which were huge in my childhood, Toy Story and Titan A.E., and most recently he is a writer/producer of the horror movie hit The Cabin in the Woods and is the writer/director of the new record-breaking box office hit The Avengers.
Before his two most recent movie hits, Joss Whedon was a bit of an enigma. He has a rabid fanbase, who fight tooth and claw to support every project he signs on to, and yet none of his projects besides Buffy, Angel, and Dr. Horrible have been very successful. Firefly was cancelled after only 13 episodes, and despite a couple of seasons, Dollhouse received lukewarm reviews from critics and fans alike. Despite all this, the members of the Whedonverse (as diehard fans call themselves) have always spouted his praises to anyone who will listen (myself included). There was a period of time, however, that Joss was underground enough that people who liked knowing new, undiscovered movies and tv shows would jump on the chance to learn about Joss Whedon. He was like The Shins after Garden State, he was hip and cool to know about. Then Joss Whedon got just large enough to lose those people. Suddenly there were newer, lesser known "genius'" and no one was willing to explore Joss Whedon anymore. Everyone had heard of him, but he had so many flops that people felt he must not be very talented. Despite my cries of his genius, and at the injustice of the canceling of his tv shows, no one was willing to give Joss the time of day anymore. I did what any good member of the Whedonverse did when such a moment arises, I sat down and watched Firefly from start to finish followed by Serenity, I watched the entirety of Buffy, and I cursed the world that ignored my celebricrush, and waited until next year's Comicon in order for Joss to reveal something awesome for me to look forward to.
Then something strange happened, Marvel announced that Joss was their man to write/direct the culmination of all of these superhero movies, The Avengers.
I sat up a little in my seat. "I'm sorry, who? My man? Joss Whedon? The guy who creates everything that is good and holy for television/movies, but the studios never like it so they fire him and cancel his shows? Marvel Studios is trusting The Avengers to him? They're trusting Joss with Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, and Edward Norton as The Hulk? Dear sweet jesus this is going to be the greatest movie of all time, and no one but me is going to like it! Wait, what? Oh they fired Edward Norton and hired Mark Ruffalo? Well he's gonna suck in that role." All of those thoughts went through my head. I told everyone Joss was taking it over, and predictably, everyone told me that like all the rest of his movies and tv shows, this would be underwhelming, and only a select few people would get it.
Guess what didn't happen?
- Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon is the writer/director who created such iconic television shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and my personal favorite, Firefly. His career doesn't stop there, however, he also created the TV show Dollhouse, wrote the Firefly spin-off movie Serenity, and created the Time Magazine Top 10 Web Series Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog. At the start of his career, he wrote two movies which were huge in my childhood, Toy Story and Titan A.E., and most recently he is a writer/producer of the horror movie hit The Cabin in the Woods and is the writer/director of the new record-breaking box office hit The Avengers.
Before his two most recent movie hits, Joss Whedon was a bit of an enigma. He has a rabid fanbase, who fight tooth and claw to support every project he signs on to, and yet none of his projects besides Buffy, Angel, and Dr. Horrible have been very successful. Firefly was cancelled after only 13 episodes, and despite a couple of seasons, Dollhouse received lukewarm reviews from critics and fans alike. Despite all this, the members of the Whedonverse (as diehard fans call themselves) have always spouted his praises to anyone who will listen (myself included). There was a period of time, however, that Joss was underground enough that people who liked knowing new, undiscovered movies and tv shows would jump on the chance to learn about Joss Whedon. He was like The Shins after Garden State, he was hip and cool to know about. Then Joss Whedon got just large enough to lose those people. Suddenly there were newer, lesser known "genius'" and no one was willing to explore Joss Whedon anymore. Everyone had heard of him, but he had so many flops that people felt he must not be very talented. Despite my cries of his genius, and at the injustice of the canceling of his tv shows, no one was willing to give Joss the time of day anymore. I did what any good member of the Whedonverse did when such a moment arises, I sat down and watched Firefly from start to finish followed by Serenity, I watched the entirety of Buffy, and I cursed the world that ignored my celebricrush, and waited until next year's Comicon in order for Joss to reveal something awesome for me to look forward to.
Then something strange happened, Marvel announced that Joss was their man to write/direct the culmination of all of these superhero movies, The Avengers.
I sat up a little in my seat. "I'm sorry, who? My man? Joss Whedon? The guy who creates everything that is good and holy for television/movies, but the studios never like it so they fire him and cancel his shows? Marvel Studios is trusting The Avengers to him? They're trusting Joss with Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, and Edward Norton as The Hulk? Dear sweet jesus this is going to be the greatest movie of all time, and no one but me is going to like it! Wait, what? Oh they fired Edward Norton and hired Mark Ruffalo? Well he's gonna suck in that role." All of those thoughts went through my head. I told everyone Joss was taking it over, and predictably, everyone told me that like all the rest of his movies and tv shows, this would be underwhelming, and only a select few people would get it.
Guess what didn't happen?
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