He attended Winchester College before receiving the film degree from either Wesleyan University in 1987.

Television work
Fallowing moving to Los Angeles, Whedon secured his first writing job on the television series Roseanne.

Whedon hwhen been described as the world's number 1 third-generation TV writer. He is the boy of Tom Whedon, a successful film writer for The Electric Company in the 1970s and The Golden Girls in the 1980s, and a grandson of John Whedon, a writer for The Donna Reed Show in the 1950s.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Years fallowing with his script for the pic Buffy the Vampire Slayer filmed (the interpretation by director Fran Rubel Kuzui having been poorly received by critics & audiences), Whedon revived a construct as a television series of the equivalent title. Buffy the Vampire Slayer went on to get a critical & cult hit, using the episode "Hush" receiving an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding writing around the drama series inside 2000. Whedon wrote & directed a musical episode "Once More, with Feeling", which featured the indicate's cast inside singing & dancing roles. A indicate run 5 seasons on The WB Network before transferring to UPN for its final two seasons. Though it premiered in Mondays at 9pm, Buffy ran since a middle of the 2nd year in Tuesdays at 8pm. (In a said musical episode, Buffy makes the Brechtian comment, "Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday.")

Angel
Angel was a spin-by-product of Buffy a Vampire Slayer, featuring her vampire-sustaining-a-soul fellow when the title character. It was created by Whedon inside conjunction by having David Greenwalt. Debuting within September 1999 on a WB, the indicate was broadcast fallowing Buffy in Tuesday evenings; however once Buffy switched networks within 2001, Angel aired inside a total of different slot, & seldom attained the ratings of its predecessor. A WB cancelled a indicate inside May 2004, but network executives own hinted that it can exist as brought back within a bit of fashion.

Firefly
Within 2002, Firefly, which Whedon produced with Tim Minear, was canceled by Fox after only Eleven episodes. Whedon got been writing a flick script according to the TV series for Universal Studios for about a year once a Firefly series was freed in DVD. A fantabulous sales of a DVD placed ensured the motion-picture show would become produced, & around early 2004 Whedon announced that his proposal for a Firefly moving picture experienced been greenlighted by Universal. Shooting began inside July 2004, and a film, Serenity, was released in September 30, 2005 to widespread critical plaudit, however lackluster final result at a pack professional.

Movies
Whedon has written or even co-written many movies including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Toy Story, Alien: Resurrection and Titan A.E.. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Toy Story's screenplay.

He besides wrote uncredited drafts or even re-writes of Speed, Waterworld, Twister and X-Men, although little of Whedon's work remained in the final drafts of any one screenplays. Within interviews Whedon has refused responsibility for a bit of of the these films. He has said that he experienced a good script for Alien: Resurrection, which was late spoiled per director. His Waterworld script was discarded, & lone 2 of his lines were saved in the final script of X-Men. Possibly a Buffy flick experienced non been inside keeping by having his intentions [http://avclub.com/content/node/24240]. Based on data from Graham Yost, the credited writer of Speed, Whedon wrote virtually all of its dialog (understand examples of credit conflicts in the WGA credit system).

Last he wrote & directed Serenity, based on his television series Firefly, & has been signed to write and direct Warner Brothers' 2007 adaptation of Wonder Woman.

a week prior to the release of Serenity, Variety announced that Universal Pictures had greenlighted a specification script by Whedon titled Goners which he will as well direct. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117929558?categoryid=1236&cs=1&s=h&p=0]

Comic books
Whedon, the womb-to-tomb comic book fan, is the creator of the Dark Horse Comics miniseries Fray which takes place in the far first of the Buffyverse. Although a miniseries took literally years to finish, it was a great profits. Whedon has mentioned giving to Affray at occasionally point once there exists instance around his occupy schedule.

Such as numerous more authors from either a Buffy TV indicate, he besides contributed to the indicate's comic book version: He wrote a independent plot line of the 5 issue mini series Tales of the Vampires and three stories in the anthology Tales of the Killer, including 1 featuring Melaka Ruffle from either Fray.

Whedon is presently writing Astonishing X-Men in Marvel Comics' popular line of comics just about a X-Men. A title, recreated specifically for Whedon, has been one of Wonder's right-selling comedian as of 2005 and was nominated for many Eisner Awards including Right Serialized Story, Right Continuing Story, Right Just released Series, & Best Writer.

A 3-issue miniseries Serenity, based on a Firefly series & leading as much as a film Serenity, was freed June across August 2005. Co-written by using Brett Mathews and pencilled by Will Conrad, it features covers drawn by John Cassaday, J. G. Jones, and Bryan Hitch, as well as other artists for the remaining 2 issues. A 1st 2 issues sold out & attend another print.

Feminism
Whedon identifies himself as a feminist, and feminist themes come park inside his function. A virtually all conspicuous case is the apparently frail teen girl world health organization is actually pleasantly hard & mighty, seen within Buffy, Firefly, & Serenity. Feminist scholars develop examined Whedon's function, sustaining two caring & blackball assessments: watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and social issues. For his a share, Whedon credits his mother when a inspiration for his feminist worldview. While Roseanne Barr asked him how he may write therefore swell for women, he replied, "If you met my mom, you wouldn't ask." [http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/09/22/1126982178268.html]

A single early model for Whedon's heavy adolescent girl characters was Kitty Pryde, one of the X-Men. "If there's a bigger influence on Buffy than Kitty, I don’t know what it was. She was an adolescent girl finding out she has great power and dealing with it." [http://www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=4851] Numerous of Whedon's immature female characters produce similar discoveries. Whedon has okay, came to a full circle, writing the character of Kitty Pryde in the Astonishing X-Men comedian.

Quotes
"It insults me that people take my work seriously. I just wanted to meet chicks." "Remember, always be yourself. Unless you suck." "I definitely think that a woman kicking ass is extraordinarily sexy. If I wasn't compelled on a very base level by that archetype, I wouldn't have created that character. I mean, yes, I have a feminist agenda, but it's not like I made a chart." (Rolling Stone, April 2000)