Morgan Spurlock, documentary director known for ‘Super Size Me’, his famous project in which he showed the consequences of eating McDonald’s food for 30 days in a row, He died in New York at the age of 53 due to complications from cancer. that he suffered from, as confirmed by his family.
His brother Craig, with whom he has worked on several documentaries, has expressed in a statement his pain at “saying goodbye to my brother Morgan. He gave his art, ideas and generosity to everyone. Today the world has lost a true creative genius and a very special man.. “I am very proud to have worked with him.”
Born in November 1970, after the success of ‘Super Size Me’, for which he was nominated for the Oscar for best documentary and won at the Sundance Festival, he founded the production company Warrior Poets. Through it he signed numerous documentaries focused on terrorism. (Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?’), in advertising (‘The greatest story ever sold’), in masculinity (‘How nice it is to be a man!’) or in music (‘One Direction: This is Us’). His career as a director ended in 2017 with ‘Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!’, in which Spurlock opened his own restaurant to denounce the fast food industry.
Personalities like Brett Morgenresponsible for ‘Moonage Daydream’, have paid tribute to him on X, former Twitter.
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It was after the outbreak of #MeToo when Spurlock claimed on social media to be “part of the problem.” The one from Parkersburg acknowledged having been accused of sexual harassment and rape. However, he had a project in the pre-production phase: ‘Sue’, a fiction feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence and which he would co-direct with Paolo Sorrentino.
