{"id":105689,"date":"2024-05-24T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/morgan-spurlock-filmmaker-behind-super-size-me-documentary-dies-from-cancer\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:00:14","slug":"morgan-spurlock-filmmaker-behind-super-size-me-documentary-dies-from-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/morgan-spurlock-filmmaker-behind-super-size-me-documentary-dies-from-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker behind &#8216;Super Size Me&#8217; documentary, dies from cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-24\/Getty_052424_MorganSpurlock.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Sonia Recchia\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary &#8220;Super Size Me,&#8221; died from cancer complications, his family announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas, and generosity,&#8221; his brother, Craig Spurlock, said in a statement. &#8220;The world has lost a true creative genius and a special man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spurlock died Thursday, according to his family. He was 53 years old.<\/p>\n<p>How eating ultra-processed foods could lead to increased risk of death, study shows<br \/>The documentarian and director from West Virginia famously ate fast food for 30 days to create his hit 2004 film, during which Spurlock claimed to only consume McDonald&#8217;s menu items for all three meals, which highlighted the radical impact that diet had on his physical and psychological health.<\/p>\n<p>The New York University alum later followed up with a 2017 sequel, &#8220;Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!,&#8221; which was Spurlock&#8217;s final documentary.<\/p>\n<p>In the sequel, Spurlock explored how the fast food industry attempted to rebrand under a healthier guise since his first go around. This time, he opened his own fast-food fried chicken restaurant in order to expose the marketing tactics fast food companies had been using on consumers in the 12 years since his original documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Spurlock also starred in and created the 2011 metacinema documentary \u201cPOM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,\u201d which was paid for entirely by sponsors as he dove head first into the world of product placement, marketing and advertising.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by two sons, Laken and Kallen; mom Phyllis Spurlock; dad Ben; brothers Craig and Barry; and ex-wives Alexandra Jamieson and Sara Bernstein, the mothers of his two children.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia Recchia\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary &#8220;Super Size Me,&#8221; died from cancer complications, his family announced on Friday. &#8220;Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas, and generosity,&#8221; his brother, Craig Spurlock, said in a statement. &#8220;The world has lost a true<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/morgan-spurlock-filmmaker-behind-super-size-me-documentary-dies-from-cancer\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker behind &#039;Super Size Me&#039; 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