When you look at the prime movers in genre television over the last decade and a half, one name is going to come up a lot. Joss Whedon (full name Joseph Hill Whedon) was born on June 23rd 1864. He attended Winchester College in England and went on to receive a film degree at Wesleyan University in 1987.
While Whedon is probably still best known for his work on Buffy the…
So after months of online fuss about how brilliant Serenity was going to be and how it was going to show up Star Wars and how it would launch a new franchise, how are things actually looking for Joss Whedon’s directorial debut? Well not quite that good anyway.
There are some good signs. Reviews have been largely positive. Serenity has a remarkable 81% fresh rating at RottenTomatoes.com. It’s also 114 in…
Sci Fi Wire is reporting that Joss Whedon has sold a spec script to Universal Pictures. Whedon who is known to genre fans for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly plans to write and direct the supernatural thriller which goes by the title of Goner.
It was Universal Pictures who produced Whedon’s directorial debut Serenity, which is based on his short lived science fiction series Firefly. Whedon had this…
I think this news item shows the strength of Firefly and by extension Serenity’s fan following. Whether than loyal fanbase can translate into a larger success remains an unanswered question. Mosquito is a fan film parody of Joss Whedon’s short lived sci-fi show Firefly.
Titled Mosquito: Behind the Scenes Preview, the fan film presents clips, and interviews with the cast and crew in a sneak peak at another doomed to failure…
The reviews are starting to flood in for Serenity, the Joss Whedon written and directed spinoff from his short lived sci-fi series Firefly and it seems like they’re a bit of a mixed bag all told. This is a noticeable change from when the only reviews online were from the hardcore fans. Those reviews were almost uniformly positive.
One of the criticsms that has come up a few times is that…
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