Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker of the film ‘Super Size Me’ passes away at the age of 53.

In his original 2004 documentary on how fast-food restaurants operate Spurlock ate only McDonald’s quick food items for one whole month. He passed away on Thursday, suffering due to complications from cancer.

By Neda Ulaby

May 24, 2024 11:31 AM

Director Morgan Spurlock has died. He was most well-known for his null, a nifty 2004 documentary on how fast-food restaurants operate, for which he only ate McDonald’s quick food during a whole month. The film was a huge success and earned over $20 million at the box office worldwide.

Spurlock died on Thursday, May 23 on the 23rd of May in New York of complications from cancer, as per an announcement from David Magdael, a publicist. He was 53.

Craig, the brother of Spurlock Craig was mentioned in the report.

“It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan,” Morgan stated. “Morgan was a great contributor to the world by his work, ideas and generosity. This world is missing a truly artistic genius and a unique person. I am incredibly pleased to have shared my time and with his.”

Spurlock was able to produce and direct more than 70 TV and film programs, most of which were documentary films. The shows included null, which was concerning what was happening in the U.S. war in Afghanistan and the meta film about the marketing of a film.

In 2017 during the #MeToo era the Spurlock null was released made a statement in which he claimed to be “part of the problem.”

He spoke about an incident of sexual harassment in the college setting that his female friend been able to describe as non-consensual, something Spurlock admitted he was confused about. “Then there was the time I settled a sexual harassment allegation at my office,” Spurlock described the event in his journal which he described as occurring around the year 2011. “And it was not a gropy, feely harassment. It was verbal and it was equally horrible. I often called the female employee “hot pants” or “sex pants” while shouting at her from a different side in the workplace. What I considered humorous at the time however, I realized that I had totally slammed and insulted her to the point of insignificance.”

In response to this letter Spurlock was forced to quit the production firm he founded. Both YouTube as well as Sundance chose not to show his documentary on the corporate control of family farms named Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken. The film was released in the year 2017 and was canceled by the Business Insider in the year 2019, however, his IMDB page doesn’t show any projects he worked on following the year 2017.