Joe Barton

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. 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, My Days of Mercy and IBoy. In 2020, it was announced he had written Encounter, a sci-fi thriller starring Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer. Amazon Studios will distribute. He is tapped to write a sequel to Cloverfield. Barton has also written television, first writing for Beaver Falls. 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. 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. 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. It was later canceled in March 2022, due to "creative differences".