This week, the American entertainment news site Daily Beast carried a lengthy article by amy Zimmerman, a female journalist. In the article, she reported that Max Landis, a young Hollywood screenwriter and also a well-known "star second generation" in Hollywood, misbehaved, physically and mentally abused women, and the number of victims was large.
As the son of renowned director John Landis, 33-year-old Max Landis has been a Hollywood darling since birth.
Max Landis' father was the well-known director John Landis, who in the 1970s and 1980s directed Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), An American werewolf in London (1981), and Trading Places (1983) and many other blockbuster movies, and fans are familiar with the king superstar Michael Jackson's mv "Thriller" and "Black or White" are also from him.
At the age of 18, Max Landis became a screenwriter for his father's works
Under the fame of John Landis, Max Landis, born in 1985, has been a Hollywood darling since he was a child, not only making cameo appearances in many of his father's works, but also officially embarking on the road of screenwriting at the age of 16, and at the age of 18, he has achieved the dream of many screenwriters for life - the script was purchased by the film company and actually made into a work. That was the episode "Deer Girl" from the first season of the TV series Masters of Horror, which aired in 2005. Of course, the director of this episode is none other than his dad John Landis.
2012's Super Runaway is Max Landis' masterpiece
While enrolled at the University of Miami, Little Landis has sold several film scripts. 2012's "Chronicle" became his most famous work, followed by "Victor Frankenstein" (2015) and the BBC drama "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency." The movie "Bright", which landed on Netflix at the end of 2017, is also his work, although it has been criticized by film critics, but the high ratings are an indisputable fact. In addition, he also followed in his father's footsteps and crossed over to produce music videos for big stars such as Ariana Grande.
The script for "Light Spirit", which landed on Netflix in 2017, is also from Max Landis
But it is such a young Hollywood celebrity who has a successful career, but there are many criticisms in his private life. In a long article published in the "Beast Daily", the reporter interviewed a total of eight women, according to them, they all had a long or short relationship with Max Landis, and in the process of dragging, Landis always did a variety of actions that hurt their bodies and minds, including violent beatings, forced sexual relations, verbal insults, demeaning personality, and so on. One of them said that Landis kept a long list on his computer, all of which were the names of women he had a relationship with (some only marked by the time or place of the relationship), and that behind the name he would score as a show of capital. Another woman simply denounced him as a "serial rapist, psychological manipulator, physical and mental abuser."
Anna Akana, an actress who has worked with Landis, has filed a complaint against her on social media
In fact, this is not the first time that the allegations against Landis have appeared. Back in 2017, just as Netflix was launching the movie "Light", anna akana, an actress who had worked with Landis, reminded the audience on social media: "The screenwriter of the film is a psychopath who has repeatedly sexually assaulted and sexually abused women." Subsequently, a number of women soon followed the post saying that they had also been abused by Landis, but because no one actually reported the case to the police at that time, it was not long before the matter gradually subsided and no one mentioned it again. Landis' career continued to flourish, with several filmmaking projects in a row.
Back earlier this month, Whitney Moore, an actress who starred in the low-budget horror film "Birdemic: Shock and Terror," took to her social media accounts, which has more than 40,000 followers, accused Landis of doing "horrible, inhuman things" to her during their relationship, fearing he would "continue to hurt more women behind closed doors."
Just a week later, there was this article in the Beast Daily. This time, in the face of these two consecutive rounds of accusations, I wonder if Max Landis can retreat this time. After all, so far, no female victim has formally filed a legal complaint against him. Moreover, according to their description, Landis's behavior does not really involve sexual assault and rape, which is more like a perverted and twisted sexual psychology. Moral condemnation is therefore one thing, but recourse to justice is probably another.
Max Landis's latest work is the horror action film "Shadow in the Cloud" starring Chloë Grace Moretz, which is currently being filmed in New Zealand, but according to the filmmakers in an interview with the Beast Daily reporter, when they first won the project, they did not know about Landis's bad deeds, and now they have been dismissed from his position as producer, and his script has been rewritten. Max Landis' name will no longer be written on the credits.
Josh Trank, the director of Super Out of Control, posted the "belated" truth on social media
In addition, Josh Trank, the director who directed "Super Out of Control," has now announced the "late" truth. He said publicly that as early as the filming of the film in 2012, he had already banned Landis from going half a step closer to the crew. "I believe this latest article about Max 100 percent." Josh Trank wrote on his personal social media yesterday, "I banned him from the crew on the spot, and I haven't spoken to him since then." Reading these words at this moment and learning that he has brought inner fear to so many women after that really makes me feel sick in my stomach. Heartache, inexplicable heartache. ”