Morgan Spurlock, ‘Super Size Me’ filmmaker, dies at 53 : NPR

Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has died. He was greatest identified for Tremendous Dimension Me, an ingenious 2004 documentary in regards to the quick meals trade for which he consumed solely McDonald’s quick meals for a month. The movie was an enormous success and would earn greater than $20 million within the international field workplace. 

Spurlock died Thursday, Might 23, in New York of issues from most cancers, in line with a press release despatched by David Magdael, a publicist. He was 53 years outdated. 

Spurlock’s brother, Craig, was quoted within the assertion.

“It was a tragic day, as we mentioned goodbye to my brother Morgan,” he mentioned. “Morgan gave a lot via his artwork, concepts, and generosity. The world has misplaced a real artistic genius and a particular man. I’m so proud to have labored along with him.”

Spurlock would produce and direct practically 70 movie and TV reveals, all of them documentaries. They included The place within the World Is Osama bin Laden?, in regards to the U.S. struggle in Afghanistan and The Best Film Ever Offered, a meta film about advertising and marketing a film.

In 2017, in the course of the #MeToo period, Spurlock posted a letter on social media during which he known as himself “a part of the issue.”

He talked a couple of sexual episode in faculty that his feminine companion had skilled as nonconsensual, which Spurlock mentioned he discovered complicated. “Then there was the time I settled a sexual harassment allegation at my workplace,” he wrote in regards to the incident, which he mentioned occurred round 2011. “And it wasn’t a gropy feely harassment. It was verbal, and it was simply as unhealthy. I might name my feminine assistant “scorching pants” or “intercourse pants” after I was yelling to her from the opposite aspect of the workplace. One thing I believed was humorous on the time, however then realized I had fully demeaned and belittled her to a spot of non-existence.”

On account of the letter, Spurlock resigned from his manufacturing firm, and each YouTube and Sundance determined in opposition to displaying his documentary in regards to the company takeover of household farms, known as Tremendous Dimension Me 2: Holy Rooster. The film was finally launched, and Spurlock talked a couple of comeback to Enterprise Insider in 2019, however his IMDB web page doesn’t present any tasks he produced after 2017.