There were many cries of excitement across the internet last month when it was announced that Joss Whedon would be rebooting Buffy The Vampire Slayer, with a black actor as the Slayer and his Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. producer Monica Owusu-Breen taking over as showrunner. (There were also people with some issues…
Reboots of beloved properties are always a tricky thing. But it seems even the blessing and/or involvement of the original creator of a piece of fanatically cherished pop culture is rarely enough to still the fears of fans worried it will...tarnish the original? Destroy their happy memories? Well, definitely something.
Jesus, we weren’t kidding about Joss Whedon going for the big comeback at this year’s Comic-Con, huh? THR reports that Whedon has now announced that he’s executive producing a reboot of his career-making cool-teenagers-fight-the-apocalypse series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, with Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. producer Monica…
Now that Joss Whedon has decided (without apparently consulting anybody else) that it’s time to climb back out of his personal time-out corner, he appears to be doing so with a vengeance, offering up all sorts of Whedon-themed goodies to lure his way back into fans’ good graces. You want another weird-premise TV show?…
It’s nearly 15 years to the day that Firefly was canceled back in 2003. How fitting, then, that as we approach that most traumatic of anniversaries, we can share with you the following news: Joss Whedon is making a new science fiction drama, and it’s going to be on HBO.
The past year has been rocky for Joss Whedon, the man behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer and the director of the first two Avengers movies. His reshoots on Zack Snyder’s Justice League didn’t do much to improve the film (with disappointed fans pinning all of the blame on him), his proposed Batgirl movie completely fell…
Welcome back to Pop Lexicon, The A.V. Club’s series with Kory Stamper, Merriam-Webster lexicographer and editor, where she reveals the origins of America’s favorite colloquialisms. Today we’re examining “gorram,” a word made popular by Joss Whedon’s sci-fi Western Firefly. In the video above, Stamper explains how…
For years, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly creator Joss Whedon was hailed as a geek-friendly icon of feminist ideals, an illusion that finally came crashing down in the wake of a brutal blog post from his ex-wife Kai Cole last year in which she accused him of being a hypocrite for talking about feminism while…
Avengers: Infinity War, the culmination of roughly three dozen films and lots of loud noises, arrives this Friday. Like every Marvel film that came before it, there’s bound to be lots of frantic, breakneck battles that climax with a final half-hour that’s bound to leave you slack-eyed and drooling into your 32-ounce…
The behind-the-scenes drama that went into Warner Bros.’ tentpole superhero team-up Justice League this past fall ended up being a far more compelling story than the one that played out in front of the cameras. Anyone who was paying attention to the ongoing shakeups, studio meddling, and eventual overhaul of the…
With shows like Roseanne and The Greatest American Hero getting updates and revivals these days, commentors all across the internet have asked when their favorite old show will be coming back. Fox is apparently looking to appease a good number of those people by acknowledging that, yes, it has talked about…
According to The Wrap, Warner Bros. has “no imminent plans” to find a new director to take on its Batgirl movie after Joss Whedon dropped out of the project last week. Apparently, even if Whedon hadn’t quit, the movie probably wouldn’t have started shooting until after Matt Reeves’ Batman—which is still pretty early…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Joss Whedon has dropped out of Warner Bros.’ Batgirl movie, saying he recently realized that he “really didn’t have a story.” He admitted that in a statement, thanking DC and Warner Bros. for being “so understanding” once he realized he had “failed.” Whedon was first attached to…
Joss Whedon has never been shy about providing his rabid fan base with more material set in his quippy, action-filled universes: Buffy, Angel, and especially his single-season space Western darling, Firefly, have all received their fair share of comic books, board games, and other supplementary materials over the…
Alex McLevy: Justice League has been out for a couple of weeks now, and to say opinions are mixed would be gentle. Some people love it, some hate it, but most, like we here at The A.V. Club, just think, “Meh.” To be fair, the film had an uphill battle. Its primary architect had to withdraw well before it was done, due…
A blockbuster with more studio notes than script (underlined: “Be more Marvel”), Justice League attempts to inject some levity and rock ’n’ roll into Zack Snyder’s dinosaurian version of the DC Comics-verse; in many cases, it ends up with the worst of multiple worlds. Gone are the artistic pretensions and doofy…
The DCEU has seen its share of criticism. From problems with characterization and tone to difficulties with, um, telling a coherent story, the studio has seen multiple films weather harsh judgments. But there’s one thing you won’t be able to fault Justice League for—its running time.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Rupert Giles has had one hell of a life. He was a bad boy that went by the name of “Ripper” in his 20s, and later in his adulthood, he helped save the world on multiple occasions as the mentor of Buffy Summers. Then he died, but death isn’t permanent in the Buffyverse. He was resurrected by…
Yesterday, Joss Whedon’s ex-wife, Kai Cole, wrote a gutting letter alleging that Whedon spent two decades lying to her about multiple affairs and using his self-purported feminism as a shield against criticism and scrutiny. Like many women I’ve spoken to, I was sad, but not shocked—maybe a little embarrassed I hadn’t…
Over the weekend, Joss Whedon’s ex-wife Kai Cole posted an essay detailing the Avengers director and Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator’s extensive history of infidelity and apparent habit of hiding behind his feminist beliefs as a way to justify lying to his wife and spending time with his female colleagues. Cole…
