Joe Barton (screenwriter)

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Joe Barton
Born1985 (age 3940)
NationalityBritish
OccupationScreenwriter
Known for Giri/Haji
The Lazarus Project
The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself
Black Doves

Joe Barton (born 1985) is a British screenwriter of film and television, best known for the crime series Giri/Haji , the science-fiction thriller The Lazarus Project , and the spy thriller Black Doves .

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Early life

Barton was born in London. He studied Film and Television Production at the University of Westminster. One of his first jobs was as a driver during production of the film Cass (2008).[ citation needed ]

Career

His writing career began in film. He has written the screenplay for such films as The Ritual , [1] My Days of Mercy [2] and IBoy . In 2020, it was announced he had written Encounter , a sci-fi thriller starring Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer. [3] Amazon Studios will distribute. [4] He is tapped to write a sequel to Cloverfield . [5]

Barton has also written extensively in television, beginning with Beaver Falls . [6] He later wrote for Humans , Our World War , and the epic miniseries Troy: Fall of a City .

In 2019, BBC Two broadcast Barton's crime thriller Giri/Haji (Japanese: 義理/恥, "Duty/Shame"). The series is set in London and Tokyo, with dialogue in English and Japanese. [7] [8] On 13 December 2020, it was announced Barton would be showrunner on Netflix's Half Bad , based on the trilogy of books by author Sally Green, with Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish as executive producers. [9] The series was later renamed to The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself.

In January 2021, it was announced that Barton would be replacing Terence Winter as showrunner on an untitled Gotham City Police Department spinoff series based on The Batman. [10] This was canceled in March 2022, due to "creative differences". [11] Barton revealed that he had pitched a potential fourth season of True Detective . HBO, however, turned it down in favour of Night Country . [12]

In November 2022, it was announced that Barton would be adapting the Peter Shaffer play Amadeus as a television series. [13]

In February 2023, it was announced Barton would write and executive produce an untitled bounty hunter drama series, to be directed by Michael Bay. [14] On 26 April 2023, it was announced that Barton would write the Netflix thriller series Black Doves , starring Keira Knightley as a British spy. [15]

Personal life

Barton lives in Brighton with his partner Alice and their two sons. [16]

Filmography

Short film

YearTitleDirector
2010 Nowhere Left to Run Julian Gibbs

Feature film

YearTitleDirector
2017 iBoy Adam Randall
The Ritual David Bruckner
My Days of Mercy Tali Shalom Ezer
2021 Encounter Michael Pearce
2024 The Union Julian Farino
TBA Untitled Cloverfield sequel Babak Anvari

Television

YearTitleWriterExecutive
Producer
CreatorNotes
2009 Freak YesNoNo4 episodes, web series
2012 Beaver Falls YesNoNoEpisode #2.5
2014 Our World War YesNoYes
2015–2016 Humans YesNoNo3 episodes
2015 Cuffs YesNoNoEpisode: "Shakedowns and Stakeouts"
2018 Troy: Fall of a City YesNoNoEpisode: "Battle on the Beach"
2019 Giri/Haji YesYesYes
2022 The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself YesYesYes
2022–2023 The Lazarus Project YesYesYes
2024 Black Doves YesYesYes
TBA Amadeus YesYesYes

TV movies

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