‘Don’t Die’: Netflix Documentary Chronicles the Health Regimen of the Man Who Wants to Live Forever
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor When Chris Smith saw a headline about 47-year-old L.A.-based tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson’s quest to spend $2 million a year to become 18 again, the director knew he’d found the subject of his next documentary.
But there was a problem. “I wrote to (Bryan’s team), and they said I was the sixty-fifth production company/person to reach out to them about doing a doc,” Smith recalls.
Luckily for Smith, known for his zeitgeisty docs including “Fyre” and “Bad Vegan,” Ashlee Vance – the journalist who wrote the Bloomberg article about Johnson that turned him into a worldwide sensation – was a fan.
Vance encouraged Johnson to partner with the director. For 12 months, Smith followed the tech entrepreneur on his crusade to avoid death.
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