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Joshua Davis (born 1974) is an American writer, film producer and co-founder of Epic Magazine. [1]
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Joshua Davis (born 1974) is an American writer, film producer and co-founder of Epic Magazine. [1]
Davis is the son of Miss Nevada winner Janet Hadland and Highlander film producer Peter S. Davis. [2] Davis attended Stanford University, where he double majored in Economics and Modern Thought and Literature. [3]
Davis wrote the New York Times bestselling book Spare Parts, which grew out of his article "La Vida Robot." [4] The story follows the lives of four teenage immigrants who built an underwater robot. The book was a finalist for Columbia University's J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize [5] and was adapted into the movie Spare Parts by Lionsgate starring George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis and Marisa Tomei. It premiered in January 2015. [6]
In 2012, Davis was kidnapped in Libya while reporting an article for Men's Journal. [7] Later that year, he lived with John McAfee in Belize and documented McAfee's lifestyle and legal problems, including allegations of murder. [8] In 2003, Davis covered the Iraq war for Wired. [9] For The New Yorker in 2011, Davis wrote about bitcoin when the cryptocurrency was worth five dollars. [10] He has also profiled Elon Musk multiple times, including a 2010 Wired cover story [11] and in an early in-depth article about Tesla. [12]
Davis' first book, The Underdog, was published by Random House in 2005. [13] It chronicles Davis' entry into unusual competitions around the world, including the US Sumo Open [14] and the World Armwrestling Championship in Gdynia, Poland. Davis documented his time as a competitive arm wrestler in the film "The Beast Within," which won best documentary at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival. [15]
In 2013, Davis and Joshuah Bearman formed Epic Magazine, [16] a magazine and production company specializing in unusual true stories. [17] Davis and Bearman have sold more than fifty articles to Hollywood, with four films and two TV series produced. [18] Davis, in partnership with J. J. Abrams and Bad Robot, also produced the short documentary series "Moon Shot," which chronicles the work of those competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. [19]
| Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Ref. |
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| West Coast | Yes | Yes | Yes | [25] |
| The Beast Within | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| The Sun Also Sets | Yes | Yes | Yes | [26] |
| Moonshot | No | No | Yes | [27] |
| The Debater | Yes | No | Yes | [28] |
| Spare Parts | No | Yes | No | |
| Little America | No | No | Yes | |
| Breaking | No | No | Yes | [29] |
| Radical | No | No | Yes | [30] |
| The Big Cigar | No | No | Yes | [31] |
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