Morgan Spurlock was the executive producer and star of the reality television series 30 Days.
22 Facts About Morgan Spurlock
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Morgan Spurlock is the co-founder of short-film content marketing company Cinelan, which produced the Focus Forward campaign for GE.
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Morgan Valentine Spurlock was born on November 7,1970 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and was raised in Beckley, West Virginia.
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Morgan Spurlock has said he is of Scots-Irish and English descent.
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Morgan Spurlock was educated at Woodrow Wilson High School, a public high school in the city of Beckley, West Virginia.
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Morgan Spurlock graduated with a BFA in film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1993.
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Morgan Spurlock is a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta.
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The list of documentary films that inspired Morgan Spurlock includes Brother's Keeper, Hoop Dreams, The Thin Blue Line, Roger and Me, Harlan County USA, and The Last Waltz.
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Morgan Spurlock considers Brother's Keeper the greatest documentary of all time.
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Morgan Spurlock conceived the idea for the film when he was at his parents' house for Thanksgiving, and while watching TV saw a news story about a lawsuit brought against McDonald's by two teenage girls who blamed the fast food chain for their obesity.
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The result, according to Morgan Spurlock, was a diet with twice the calories recommended by the USDA.
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Further, Morgan Spurlock attempted to curtail his physical activity to match the exercise habits better of the average American.
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Morgan Spurlock was of above average health and fitness when he started the project; he gained 25 pounds, became quite puffy, and suffered liver dysfunction and depression by the end.
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Morgan Spurlock was at the helm of this project alongside five directors.
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In mid-2010, Morgan Spurlock worked with Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles, and comic book creator Stan Lee to create the documentary Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope, to cover the stories of convention fans.
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Morgan Spurlock helped distribute A Brony Tale, a documentary directed by Brent Hodge on the brony phenomenon and on the musician and voice acting career of Ashleigh Ball.
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Morgan Spurlock teamed up with Hodgee Films again on the 2015 series Consider the Source, in association with Disney's Maker Studios.
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The first episode of the third season, titled "Working in a Coal Mine", was filmed in Bolt, West Virginia, which is located roughly 18 miles from the city of Beckley, West Virginia, where Morgan Spurlock was raised before leaving for New York.
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Morgan Spurlock is set to direct his first narrative feature film based on Brian Kellow's bestselling bio Can I Go Now about Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers.
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The older, Laken James Morgan Spurlock, was born on December 9,2006.
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The younger, Kallen Marcus Morgan Spurlock, was born on May 22,2016.
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In October 2022, The Washington Post reported that Morgan Spurlock had "suffered career death" as a result of his misconduct.