Joss Whedon wrote for film before television, including an early draft of Toy Story that earned him an Academy Award nomination, and worked extensively as a script doctor at Disney.
The dialogue style, self-aware, rhythmic and deflecting into a joke at the moment of feeling, became so widely imitated across the 2010s that critics named it after him. The Avengers is where it entered blockbuster filmmaking.
Multiple collaborators, including Charisma Carpenter and Ray Fisher, have described abusive conduct on his productions. He has largely not worked since, and the reappraisal of the writing has been substantial.
Drew GoddardDrew Goddard and Joss Whedon's meta-horror about college students at a remote cabin who discover their ordeal is engineered. The Cabin in the Woods is Drew Goddard's 2011 American meta-horror film depicting college students at a remote cabin who discover…
Joss WhedonSerenity is the rare feature film made to give a canceled television series a proper conclusion. Joss Whedon wrote and directed.
Joss WhedonJames Spader's exceptional voice performance carrying an uneven ensemble film. The Vision's introduction and Sokovia's destruction.
Joss WhedonJoss Whedon's ensemble breakthrough, Tom Hiddleston's Loki, and the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale. The 8.5 reflects honest evaluation of the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale and the entry that…
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