Alex Cox Opens Reader Q&A on His Billed Final Film — SkimNews
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- Dead Souls is billed as Alex Cox’s final film: a darkly comic western loosely based on Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 novel.
- Alex Cox broke through with the 1984 punk classic Repo Man and later directed Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy.
- Alex Cox made the political western Walker in 1987, starring Ed Harris, then served as the original presenter of BBC Two’s Moviedrome from 1988 to 1994, introducing viewers to cult and overlooked films.
- Alex Cox made films in Mexico during the 1990s, including Highway Patrolman, then returned to Liverpool for Three Businessmen and The Revengers Tragedy.
- Alex Cox made Searchers 2.0, Repo Chick and the science-fiction comedy Bill the Galactic Hero after returning to the US.
- Dead Souls casts Cox as “Strindler—or is it Swindler?”, a mysterious drifter roaming the American west who offers to buy the names of dead Mexican labourers before becoming tangled with outlaws, crooked officials and his own tall tales; Edward Tudor-Pole is also in the cast.
- Alex Cox invites readers to post questions by midday on Wednesday 4 November, with his best answers to be printed in the Readers’ Interview series.
Why it matters: Readers gain direct access to a filmmaker whose retrospective runs from 1984’s *Repo Man* to *Dead Souls*, billed as his last film. The midday 4 November deadline creates a concrete route for participation, while the Readers’ Interview series will preserve Cox’s best answers in print.
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