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

Joe Barton
Born	1985 (age 36–37)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Screenwriter
Known for	Giri/Haji The Lazarus Project The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself

Early life

Barton was born in London. He studied Film and Television Production at the University of Westminster, and one of his first jobs was as a driver on Cass.

Career

His writing career began in film. He has written films such 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 television, first writing for 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 December 13, 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] It was later canceled in March 2022, due to "creative differences".[11]

In November 2022, it was announced that Barton would be adapting the Peter Shaffer play Amadeus into a television series.[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2010	Nowhere Left to Run	Julian Gibbs	Short film
2017	iBoy	Adam Randall
	The Ritual	David Bruckner
	My Days of Mercy	Tali Shalom Ezer
2021	Encounter	Michael Pearce
TBA	Our Man from Jersey	Julian Farino
	Untitled Cloverfield sequel	Babak Anvari

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2012	Beaver Falls	Episode #2.5
2013	Blackout	TV Movie
2014	Glasgow Girls
	Our World War	Also creator
2015	Cuffs	Episode: "Shakedowns and Stakeouts"
2015-2016	Humans	Episodes #1.4, #2.4, #2.6
2018	Troy: Fall of a City	Episode: "Battle on the Beach"
2019	Giri/Haji	Also creator
2022-present	The Lazarus Project	Also creator[13]
2022	The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself	Also creator
TBA	Amadeus	Also creator

References

External links

• Joe Barton at IMDb

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