British film director and sometimes actor, born 1954 in Bebington, Wirral, UK. He studied film at Bristol University then UCLA. Most notable for the movies Repo Man and Sid & Nancy.
Left Oxfords law school to study film at Bristol University and UCLA.
Went to law school with Tony Blair.
Said on the commentary of the Criterion Collection DVD that Walker is his best film.
Considers Lonely Are the Brave the greatest and most tragic western movie ever made.
(July 2012) Teaching production and screenwriting at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
He is an Atheist.
He was asked to direct The Running Man , but the failure of Walker prevented this from happening.
In a March 2007 blog post, Cox referred to Vice President Dick Cheney as "secret architect of the 9-11 atrocities." In the same article, Cox called the September 11 attacks "Plan Pearl Harbor," referring to the false flag conspiracy theory surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Turned down offers to direct Three Amigos! and RoboCop in favour of Walker .
He was originally set to direct Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but was replaced by Terry Gilliam due to creative differences with Hunter S. Thompson.
Cox is a fan of the Japanese Godzilla films and appeared in a 1998 BBC documentary highlighting the series. He also narrated the documentary Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects and wrote the Godzilla in Time comics for Dark Horse. He tried to direct an American Godzilla film at one point, but unsuccessfully submitted his outline to TriStar Pictures.
An avid Spaghetti Western fan and proponent of the form, he wrote a book on the history of the genre called 10,000 Ways to Die: A Directors Take on the Spaghetti Western.
Cox has cited Luis Buuel , Akira Kurosawa , Sergio Leone , Sergio Corbucci , Sam Peckinpah and John Ford as influences.
