Biografía
Cox made his debut as a writer/director with the short film The Obit Writer, featuring Norman Mailer and Mira Sorvino, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. His first feature, Scorpion Spring, which he also wrote and directed, starred Matthew McConaughey, Reuben Blades, Alfred Molina, and Esai Morales, premiered at Sundance, and included a score by renowned Mission Impossible composer Lalo Schifrin. He wrote and directed Keepin' It Real, starring platinum-selling rapper Kurupt, which received two DVD Premiere Award nominations, including Best Script. Additionally, he wrote and directed El Muerto, starring Wilmer Valderrama, based on the Mexican-American comic book character created by Javier Hernandez.
As a writer and producer, his credits include the remake of Hideo Nakata's Don't Look Up, directed by Fruit Chan; Faizon Love's Tao of the Golden Mask, a parody of 1970s Asian martial arts films; AmericanEast, featuring Tony Shalhoub from Monk; Kite, an adaptation of the Japanese anime starring Samuel L. Jackson; and Shepherds and Butchers, starring Steve Coogan and Andrea Riseborough, which won an audience award at the Berlin Film Festival. He is a screenwriting fellow of Film Independent's "No Borders" script development program and the Film Independent Screenwriter's Lab. For his screenplay About Face, about the decade-long feud between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal, he was honored in the 2017 Writers Guild of America's Feature Writers Access Project.
His producing credits include Dimension Films' remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse, which spawned two sequels; Chain of Desire, starring Malcolm McDowell and Linda Fiorentino; Terminal Bliss, featuring Luke Perry; Tsui Hark's Zu Warriors; MTV's release of Kim Tae-Gyun's Volcano High, with Snoop Dogg; the Taiwanese puppet series Wu Lin Warriors for Cartoon Network; and the Egyptian drama Cairo Exit, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He also served as associate producer on Justin Chadwick's Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Atom Egoyan's Remember, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, and as executive producer of the Los Angeles Film Festival's "Nightfall" winner Serpent; Pantelion's Spanish-language comedy Un Padre No Tan Padre; and Alonso Ruizpalacios' Museo, starring Gael Garcia Bernal.
