Joss WhedonFilmography

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Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Dollhouse [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly creator Joss Whedon crafts this science-fiction-themed television series concerning a highly-illegal, underground organization known as the Dollhouse that caters to the wealthy, powerful, and connected by leasing out "Actives," people whose personalities have Read More

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day

Synopsis: An aspiring supervillain discovers that taking over the world is no easy task while attempting to get accepted into the Evil League of Evil and summoning the courage to finally make conversation with his laundromat crush. Better known to the world as "Dr. Horrible," Billy (Neil Patrick Harris) has Read More

The Office: Business School

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Michael is invited to be a guest speaker at Ryan's business school. Back at the office, Dwight goes batty trying to catch a bat and Pam invites her colleagues to her first art exhibit. ~ Dean Maurer, All Movie Guide Read More

Serenity

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Summer Glau, Sean Maher

Synopsis: A band of renegades on the run in outer space get in more hot water than they anticipated in this sci-fi action-adventure adapted from the television series Firefly. In the 26th century, the galaxy has been colonized by a military force known as the Alliance, but its leadership has not gone Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) interrupts her tender reunion with Angel (David Boreanaz) long enough to dispatch Caleb (Nathan Fillion) quite violently once and for all. Afterward, Angel says he can smell Spike (James Marsters) on Buffy. The Slayer admits that Spike now has a soul and is "in her Read More

Angel: Waiting in the Wings

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: When Angel (David Boreanaz) decides to take the gang out to see his favorite ballet troupe, everyone gets all gussied up. Angel is shocked, however, when the performance -- and the performers -- are identical to one he remembers from over a century ago. During intermission, he and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter Read More

Angel: Spin the Bottle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Host (Andy Hallett) narrates this episode of Angel, which was written and directed by series co-creator Joss Whedon and is structured as one long flashback recounted by the green-skinned demon to an unseen audience. Lorne's tale involves a memory spell he obtained in order to restore the Read More

Firefly [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin

Synopsis: Created by Joss Whedon (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Firefly was an "outer-space Western" set some four to five centuries in the future. Nathan Fillion starred as Captain Mal Reynolds, a disillusioned interplanetary-war veteran and outlaw of the Alliance, the current ruling government. Reynolds Read More

Firefly: Objects in Space

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: River (Summer Glau) wanders through Serenity, listening in on the thoughts of her shipmates, all of whom are harboring negative thoughts about her and her erratic behavior. She picks up a gun in the cargo bay. Mal (Nathan Fillion) is able to disarm her, but then Kaylee (Jewel Staite) feels Read More

Firefly: The Train Job

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The premiere episode of Firefly, directed by the show's creator, Joss Whedon, opens in a bar, where Mal (Nathan Fillion), the captain of the titular transport ship, is having a drink with Zoe (Gina Torres) and Jayne (Adam Baldwin). Another patron (Tom Towles) shouts out a toast in honor of Read More

Firefly: Serenity, Part 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Firefly: Serenity, Part 1

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: "Serenity" was originally intended to be the two-hour pilot of Firefly, but the brain trust at FOX wasn't happy with the pace of the episode, and convinced series creator Joss Whedon to air it later in the series' run. By the time the pilot aired (as a 2-part episode on December 20, 2002), FOX had Read More

Firefly: The Message

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Burgi, Al Pugliese, Morgan Rusler

Synopsis: Simon (Sean Maher) puts his foot in his mouth again, inadvertently insulting Kaylee (Jewel Staite). While visiting a sort of futuristic carnival freak show, the crew is unable to fence the Lasseter (the priceless weapon they stole in the previous episode, Trash), but they do have occasion to pick Read More

Firefly: Our Mrs. Reynolds

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Benito Martinez, Bob Fimiani

Synopsis: After Mal (Nathan Fillion) and the crew help a backwater community fend off a vicious band of robbers, Mal takes off his dress and bonnet (long story) and there's a drunken celebration. The next morning, Serenity has to leave in a hurry to avoid an Alliance patrol boat, and Mal finds an Read More

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Michael J. Fox, James Garner, Cree Summer, Leonard Nimoy, Don Novello

Synopsis: The first Disney cartoon to be produced in the 70 mm format since The Black Cauldron (1985), this blend of traditional animation with computer-generated imagery is a straight adventure tale of the Jules Verne school, eschewing the studio's typical formula of cute critters mixed with song-and-dance Read More

Angel: Through the Looking Glass

Actors: Andy Hallett

Synopsis: With Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) apparently in power (see "Over the Rainbow"), Angel (David Boreanaz), the Host (Andy Hallett), and the others are set free. The Deathwok Clan Mother, aka Loren's mom (Tom McCleister), expresses her hatred and shame over her wayward offspring, but cousin Landokmar Read More

Angel: Happy Anniversary

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Andy Hallett

Synopsis: As Cordy (Charisma Carpenter) and the gang continue to press on without him, Angel (David Boreanaz) joins the Host (Andy Hallett) in a mission to stop a misguided physicist named Gene Rainy (Matt Champagne) from destroying the world by stopping time in its tracks. The Host first becomes aware of Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and the gang find themselves singing out their feelings in this musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The weirdness begins when Buffy interrupts her patrol to sing about post-resurrection angst. The next day, she learns that all of Sunnydale has become a great Read More

The Alien Saga

Synopsis: Originally aired on AMC, this documentary focuses on one of the most horrifying series ever to be committed to celluloid -- the Alien film series. With interviews from most of the main players, including Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, and H.R. Giger, the special goes through Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: As hell-god Glory (Clare Kramer) prepares for the precise moment when she can cut Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) open and unleash pan-dimensional Armageddon, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and the Scoobies prepare for the fight of their lives. Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) advocates killing Dawn if it Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Body

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) returns home, chattering animatedly to her mother until she discovers Joyce (Kristine Sutherland) cold and apparently dead on the couch. She dials 911, makes an unsuccessful attempt at CPR, and watches, dumbfounded, as the paramedics meet with similar failure. Alone Read More

Titan A.E.

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo

Synopsis: Titan A.E. combines cel and CG imagery in this science fiction saga. In 3028, after the Earth is destroyed by an invading alien race, a tiny number of surviving humans roam the universe in ragtag spaceships, trying to find each other and maintain some sense of community. Shortly before the final Read More

Angel: Judgement

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Andy Hallett

Synopsis: A vision from Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) sends Angel (David Boreanaz) to the rescue of a pregnant woman (Justina Machado) who appears to be in danger from a nearby demon. After Angel kills the beast, however, it turns out it was actually protecting the woman from the Tribunal, a mysterious Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Restless

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The season four finale finds Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and friends returning to her house after the battle with Adam (George Hertzberg). Riley (Marc Blucas) is absent while testifying to the government about the Initiative's activities. Xander (Nicholas Brendan) suggests the group all relax Read More

Angel: Sanctuary

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Elisabeth Röhm, Christian Kane

Synopsis: After Faith (Eliza Dushku) surrenders herself (see "Five by Five"), Angel (David Boreanaz) decides to try to rehabilitate her, incurring the wrath of Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) and Wesley (Alexis Denisof), the latter of whom was recently tortured by the rogue slayer. Angel's ex-girlfriend and Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Family

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: As Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) strengthens her resolve to protect supernaturally incarnated sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) from malevolent über-demon Glory (Clare Kramer), Tara (Amber Benson) fears that her friends will discover her own otherworldly origin. The crisis begins when Tara's Read More

Angel: Untouched

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephanie Romanov

Synopsis: When Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) suffers one of her visions, Angel (David Boreanaz) and his crew discover the existence of Bethany Chaulk (Daisy McCrackin), an emotionally disturbed young telekinetic. Even after her out-of-control powers impale Angel with a metal spike, he extends an offer of Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Who Are You?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) finds herself inside Faith's (Eliza Dushku) body and being carted off on a gurney by the police. Having used a mystical Katra to switch her body with Buffy's, Faith marvels at her perfect disguise, mocking Buffy's do-gooder persona in front of the Summers' bathroom Read More

Angel: I Fall to Pieces

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Glenn Quinn, Elisabeth Röhm, Tushka Bergen

Synopsis: Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) and Doyle (Glenn Quinn) try to convince Angel (David Boreanaz) to charge clients for his services, but he demurs. Doyle promptly suffers one of his visions and sends Angel to contact Melissa Burns (Tushka Bergen), a young woman whom he believes will need Angel's Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day, Part Two

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Failing to cure Angel (David Boreanaz) with Faith's (Eliza Dushka) blood, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) decides to sacrifice herself. Ignoring the obvious dangers, Buffy forces Angel to feed on her blood. Although her friends are angry at her for foolishly risking her life, they all team up Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day, Part One

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This seminal two-part episode features the end to the characters' high school careers. As the Mayor (Harry Groener) prepares for the Ascension, so do Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her friends -- with the help of former demon Anya (Emma Caulfield). Buffy assumes that she has to miss graduation Read More

Angel [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon's first cult-favorite horror-comedy drama, used its supernatural trappings as the breeding ground for countless metaphors about adolescence, young adulthood, and female empowerment. But Angel, its spin-off and Whedon's second successful outing for the Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Angry over being human and still only in the 12th grade, Anya (Emma Caulfield) enlists Willow (Alyson Hannigan) to help her get her amulet back. Their spell goes wrong, and, instead of the amulet, brings vampire Willow back (see "The Wish"). Soon, vamp Willow recruits some vampire henchmen, takes Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Freshman

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the fourth season opener, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Willow (Alyson Hannigan) have entered college in Sunnydale and set about choosing courses. Despite a roommate who snores, Willow is confident in the new intellectual environment, but Buffy feels unsure of herself and completely out of Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hush

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Ever studious, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) falls asleep during a class lecture and has a dream about a little girl holding a box and reciting a fairy tale about "The Gentlemen." Meanwhile, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) attends a campus Wicca meeting where she meets Tara (Amber Benson), a demure young Read More

Angel: City of

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Glenn Quinn, Vyto Ruginis, Christian Kane

Synopsis: In the premiere episode of this spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's ex-boyfriend, Angel (David Boreanaz), the vampire with a soul, relocates to Los Angeles and finds a new purpose in life. Shortly after the events of Buffy's "Graduation Day, Part Two," Angel prowls the clubs of Los Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming, Part 1

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Acathla, a demon turned to stone by an ancient knight, is dug up during the construction of a new housing project. Angel (David Boreanaz) steals Acathla in hopes of using the demon for the stultifyingly original purpose of opening a portal to Hell. Meanwhile, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Innocence

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) makes a startling discovery after making love with Angel (David Boreanaz) for the first time -- the act of love has destroyed his human soul and turned him into the evil Angelus, a demon with the face of an angel. Angelus is now on the prowl for a human sacrifice, and Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming, Part 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: At the hospital to check on her injured friends, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) runs into Whistler (Max Perlich) who informs her that she must use the blessed sword of the knight who imprisoned the demon Acathla. She reluctantly forms an alliance with Spike (James Marsters) -- jealous over Angel's(David Boreanaz Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Amends

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: It's Christmas time in Sunnydale and like Scrooge, Angel (David Boreanaz) is being haunted by the ghosts of his past victims, namely Jenny Calendar (Robia La Morte). He seeks help from Giles (Anthony Head), and later even shares a dream with Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), where he bites her. Jenny Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Anne

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The first episode of season three finds Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) in a large city, waitressing in a diner under her middle name, Anne. She is depressed and heartbroken over the events that took place at the end of her junior year (see "Becoming, Part 1" and "Becoming, Part 2"). A homeless girl Read More

Alien Resurrection

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Michael Wincott

Synopsis: Two centuries after Ellen Ripley's death, doctors aboard the space station Auriga clone her using a blood sample taken from Fiorna 161 in hopes of harvesting the queen embryo that was incubating inside of her when she was trapped on the remote penal planet. Finally succeeding after numerous Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Welcome to the Hellmouth

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Ostensibly picking up where the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer left off, episode one finds the vampire-stiffing Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her mother, Joyce (Kristine Sutherland), recently moved from Los Angeles to the ironically named suburb of Sunnydale, CA. During her first day Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Lie to Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A new love and an old friendship are tested in this soap-operatic second-season episode. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) spies Angel (David Boreanaz) speaking with a mysterious and alluring woman. Unaware that the woman is Drusilla (Juliet Landau) -- Buffy did not meet her in the earlier "School Hard Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ted

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Three's a crowd as Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) finds her mom making out with John Ritter in her house. Ritter plays Ted, a man who Buffy's mom has apparently been seeing for a while. Ted's demeanor lies somewhere between Ward Cleaver and Herman Georing. Even though he bakes delicious cookies and Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Synopsis: A wildly influential cult hit that escaped the shadow of an unsuccessful film incarnation, helped establish the teen-centric WB network, and spawned a long-running spin-off, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for 144 episodes between March 1997 and May 2003. Approached by Fox television executives about Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: School Hard

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Crashing his DeSoto Sportsman into the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign and proclaiming, "Home, sweet home," viewers meet the vampire named Spike (James Marsters), along with his equally sardonic vamp girlfriend, Drusilla (Juliet Landau) -- a fitting introduction for two vampires who will become among Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Out of Mind, Out of Sight

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The stuck-up attitude of Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) comes back to hurt her in this important first-year episode. While campaigning to be crowned Sunnydale High's May Queen, Cordelia's date is clubbed to death by a possessed baseball bat. A friend of Cordelia's then falls down some stairs Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Nightmares

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Episode ten showcases the writers' ingenious talent to marry each character's personality to a horror-comedy plot twist. Nightmares are coming true in Sunnydale: the self-conscious Xander (Nicholas Brendon) goes to school in his underwear; shy Willow (Alyson Hannigan) has to sing in public; Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When She Was Bad

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Everyone returns from summer vacation with unresolved issues that they're just itching to uncover. Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander (Nicholas Brendon) flirtatiously eat ice cream together, and after Xander licks ice cream off Willow's nose -- perhaps about to kiss her -- they are rudely Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Prophecy Girl

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The last episode of season one begins with the pronunciation of Buffy's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) impending death -- talk about bad timing -- right before the class prom! The revelation comes courtesy of a prophecy discovered by Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), stating that the Master (Mark Metcalf) Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Harvest

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the second episode of the series, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and friends Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon), Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan), and Watcher Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) band together to stop a group of vampires from fulfilling an ancient prophecy called "The Harvest." Read More

Toy Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assured that the film is as chock-full of heart and warmth as any Disney cartoon feature. The star of the proceedings is Woody, a pull-string cowboy toy Read More

Waterworld

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Widely considered to be an expensive failure, Waterworld was an epic vehicle for Kevin Costner, who starred in and co-produced the film, with his friend Kevin Reynolds as director. It was based on a 1986 screenplay by Peter Rader and cost an estimated $235 million, more than any film in history up Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens, Luke Perry

Synopsis: The idea of fusing teen sex-comedy and horror genres into a boffo box-office bonanza seems like classic braindead Hollywood-think... but somehow, beyond all reason, the makers of this film manage to pull it off. Much of the credit goes to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Tokyo Pop) who chooses wisely to Read More

Roseanne: Chicken Hearts

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Roseanne hates her job at Chicken Divine, finding it extremely difficult to treat her horrible 17-year-old boss Brian (Peter Smith) with any respect. In order to get her weekends off, she invites him over for dinner and makes Dan help him with an automotive project. Of course, trying to impress Read More

Roseanne: The Little Sister

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Jackie decides to enroll in police academy, which sets up even more possibilities for Roseanne to make fun of her. Meanwhile, Becky gets embarrassed again, this time when Darlene tells on her for looking at Dan's nudie magazines. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Brain-Dead Poets Society

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Darlene wins a prize for a poem and gets an invitation to read it aloud during Culture Night at her school. However, she thinks the event is geeky and she would rather stay home to watch a ballgame with Dan. Roseanne steps in and voices her thoughts on the matter. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Read More