Editing Alex Cox (section)

===Microfeature period (2007–present)===
In 2006, Alex Cox tried to get funding for a series of eight [[Low-budget film#Micro budget|very low budget]] features set in Liverpool and produced by locals. The project was not completed, but the director grew interested in pursuing the idea of a film made for less than £100,000. He had originally hoped to shoot ''Repo Man'' on a comparable budget, and hoped that the lower overhead would mean greater creative freedom.{{cn|date=December 2023}}

''[[Searchers 2.0]]'', named after but based on ''[[The Searchers (film)|The Searchers]]'', became Cox's first film for which he has sole writing credit since ''Repo Man'', and marked his return to the comedy genre. A [[road movie]] and a revenge story, it tells of two actors, loosely based on and played by [[Del Zamora]] and Ed Pansullo, who travel from Los Angeles to a desert film screening in [[Monument Valley]] in the hopes of avenging abuse inflicted on them by a cruel screenwriter, Fritz Frobisher ([[Sy Richardson]]). It was scored by longtime collaborator [[Dan Wool]] aka [[Pray for Rain (band)|Pray for Rain]] (''Sid & Nancy'', ''Straight to Hell'', ''Death & the Compass'', ''The Winner'', ''Three Businessmen'', ''Repo Chick'' among others). Although the film was unable to achieve a cinema release in America or Europe, Cox claimed the experience of making a film with a smaller crew and less restrictions was energising. It is available on DVD in Japan, and was released in October 2010 in North America.<ref>{{cite web|title=Searchers 2.0 on IMDB|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0943982/|website=imdb.com|access-date=18 September 2017}}</ref>

Alex Cox had attempted to get a ''Repo Man'' sequel, titled ''[[Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday]]'', produced in the mid-'90s, but the project fell apart, with the script adapted into a [[graphic novel]] of the same name.<ref>{{cite news |first=Zack |last=Smith |url=http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=148302 |title=Alex Cox: The Comic Book Sequel To Repo Mam |work=[[Newsarama]] |date=27 February 2008 |access-date=5 November 2008 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20177132,00.html First Look: Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421215714/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20177132,00.html |date=21 April 2009 }}, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''</ref> For his next micro-feature, he wrote a fresh attempt at a ''Repo'' follow-up, although it contained no recurring characters, so as to preserve Universal's rights to the original. ''[[Repo Chick]]'' was filmed entirely against a green screen, with backgrounds of digital composites, live action shots, and miniatures matted in afterwards, to produce an artificial look. It premiered at the [[Venice Film Festival]] on 9 September 2009.{{cn|date=December 2023}}

{{as of|July 2012}}, Cox was teaching film production and screenwriting at the [[University of Colorado at Boulder]].<ref name=CoxNYT>{{cite news|last=Cox|first=Alex|title=The Fretful Birth of the New Western|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/movies/kirk-douglass-film-lonely-are-the-brave.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=29 July 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=29 July 2012}}</ref><ref name=hoylake/>

In 2013 Cox directed ''[[Bill, the Galactic Hero (film)|Bill, the Galactic Hero]]'', developed from a science fiction book by [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]]. It was funded by a successful [[Kickstarter]] funding campaign, raising $114,957 of the original $100,000 goal.<ref name="Kickstarter">{{cite web|last1=Cox|first1=Alex|title=Alex Cox directs BILL THE GALACTIC HERO|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexcoxfilms/alex-cox-directs-bill-the-galactic-hero|website=kickstarter.com|access-date=18 September 2017}}</ref> The film was to be made, created and acted by his film students in monochrome with supervision from professional film makers who would be giving their time on the film for free.<ref name="Kickstarter" />

Cox's 2013 book ''The President and the Provocateur'' examines events in the lives of [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] leading up to Kennedy's assassination, with reference to [[John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories|the various conspiracy theories]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Marcus |first=Richard |date=29 June 2013 |title=Book Review: 'The President And The Provocateur' by Alex Cox |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-The-President-And-The-Provocateur-4638358.php |access-date=2022-05-07 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2017 Cox directed another crowdfunded film, ''[[Tombstone Rashomon]]'', which tells the tale of the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] from multiple perspectives in the style of [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s 1950 film ''[[Rashomon]]''.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

In September 2019, Cox started the podcast ‘Conversations with Cox and Kjølseth’ with his friend and colleague Pablo Kjølseth. In October 2022, Cox announced the end of the podcast, citing its small audience and the comparative success of podcasts by [[Joe Dante]], [[Quentin Tarantino]] and Cox's one-time collaborator [[Roger Deakins]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cox & Kjølseth: EP112: Cox & Kjolseth gallop off into the sunset on Apple Podcasts |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep112-cox-kjolseth-gallop-off-into-the-sunset/id1490027179?i=1000581733104 |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=Apple Podcasts |language=en-GB |archive-date=14 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014150957/https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep112-cox-kjolseth-gallop-off-into-the-sunset/id1490027179?i=1000581733104 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In June 2024 Cox began crowdfunding a film adaptation of [[Nikolai Gogol]]'s novel ''[[Dead Souls]]'', which he says will be his last film.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/24458370.wirral-film-maker-alex-cox-looking-funding-last-movie/ | title=Wirral film maker Alex Cox looking for funding for his 'last movie' | date=17 July 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/the-hard-road-alex-cox-on-crowdfunding-success-and-a-life-in-independent-filmmaking#:~:text=Cox%27s%20latest%20is%20a%20crowdfunded,super%20low%2Dbudget%20film.%E2%80%9D | title=The Hard Road: Alex Cox on Crowdfunding, Success, and a Life in Independent Filmmaking &#124; MZS &#124; Roger Ebert | date=28 July 2024 }}</ref>