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Serial sexual predator, rapist, and shite screenwriter Lax Mandis is back!
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If you can't read the tweet, Sinister and Doctor Strange director Scott Derickson says:
Scott Derickson has no chill and I respect the hell out of him. Fuck landis and fuck his awful father too.
Hollywood/social climbers. His dad still has influence, I believe.
How the fuck is this fucker not in jail after that article? So fucking gross that he still is getting jobs in Hollywood.
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his dad having influence is literally the only thing making Max career still having a career possible.
I enjoyed Chronicle at the time, and hear good things about his Superman comic.
Shame he's a feculent scum bucket who deserves to be left at the bottom of a ditch.
Shame he's a feculent scum bucket who deserves to be left at the bottom of a ditch.
Fuck social media. Except forums obviously. Oh and fuck Max Landis.
I honestly can't believe his dad has influence after killing those children.
He lost a lot of it (Spielberg wants nothing to do with him) but he was successful enough to retain enough of it.
I guess he's getting into consulting. Which maybe means that article actually did hurt his career.
The fucking gall of this motherfucker to even show his face in public.
He still has influence, and also mommy is a extremely famous costume designer and also two term president of the costume designers guild.
I liked the 2 youtube videos about superman and wrestling, but he seems like a spoild know it all douche/daddy's boy on top of the sexual misconduct allegations.
Also I insulted him on reddit once saying he seems like a douche (before the sexual assault stuff came out) and he directly replied to me defending himself. So he seems like he might have pretty thin skin. This wasn't on an AMA or anything it was just a topic someone made about him, I had no reason to expect he would read, much less be deeply offended by, my post.
Also I insulted him on reddit once saying he seems like a douche (before the sexual assault stuff came out) and he directly replied to me defending himself. So he seems like he might have pretty thin skin. This wasn't on an AMA or anything it was just a topic someone made about him, I had no reason to expect he would read, much less be deeply offended by, my post.
Hollywood loves nepotism.
It's a cruel joke that someone like him wrote a really good Superman comic.
Which will always be baffling to me because not only has he not made a good movie in like 31 years, or anything of particular relevance for 31 years, but his negligence also got two children and an adult actor killed in a horrific accident that could've been avoided.
Why he would have any clout at all at this point is completely beyond me. I would've distanced my ass from him like Spielberg did as soon as the truth about the Twilight Zone situation came out.
Not surprising to see Max pop up again though, I figured he would have to go a route like this though, there's no way he's getting his previous prominence back, if you could call it that. Pretty sure his reputation is thoroughly thrashed at this point, and there's quite a few Hollywood people that seem to be outspoken enough to make sure that he doesn't slip back into the limelight unnoticed. Seems like his career was indeed hurt.
his video on wrestling became kinda weird now since pretty much every woman that came foward saying he is a predator is featured in that video
I opened the thread, saw Scott Derickson posting "If you're looking for a script consultant..." and was scared for a minute. Good guy Scott.
Reminder that, while admittedly more talented and maybe slightly less overtly monstrous than his hack shithead failson, John Landis has a track record for also being a dumb unprofessional shithead...
Who also has the death of children on his hands.
He's definitely got some kind of scary clout, a couple of years back a bunch of LA folks were tweeting about how awful he was and within a few hours they'd all nuked their stuff and pretended like it never happened
it took the last blow up for it to actually stick
it took the last blow up for it to actually stick
The thing about that movie is that mostly it was still Trank's work. He helped come up with the plot and directed it. Plus he banned Max from the set.
Josh Trank Banned Max Landis From ‘Chronicle’ Set and Hasn’t Spoken to Him Since 2012
Trank says he is "heartbroken beyond measure" by the new allegations of sexual and emotional abuse made against Landis.
www.indiewire.com
Is Max Landis trying to entrap people?When the conditions of your consulting service sound like a kidnapper's demands.
And actually because you made this thread I went to his social media, and he literally never left instagram and seems to have been posting consistently. So yeah I guess I really dont get it.
I don't think a thread in a mid-sized video game forums's off-topic section is gonna do anything for the guy.
His dad isn't the one that protected him. He has a fraught relationship with him and they aren't actually close. They have a weird narcissistic quasi rivalry thing. His Mom is who protected him. She's well respected and well connected in the industry, has a great reputation among people she worked with, and coddled Max his whole life.
I don't know anything about John Landis's particular situation, but perhaps this can help with your bafflement.
John Landis made some of the biggest movies in Hollywood. You can't do that without having the right connections. Connections are power in Hollywood. John Landis's name may be mud after the fatal incident, but that's only if his name is spoken loudly in public.
Let's say that you're some rookie writer/director who would like to make a great movie using this idea that you have, and you hope that maybe if it's good enough Disney will see you and you'll get to make the next Marvel movie. LOL, fat chance. Your best bet is to film your friends using your smartphone and upload your home movies to Youtube.
But now let's say you met John Landis. "Oh, you want to make a Hollywood movie? Okay, first up you need to go talk to this guy and this guy and this guy. Normally these people would laugh and tell you to get lost, but if you tell them I sent you, they'll give you 20 minutes to hear your pitch. Here's how you make your pitch."
And now that you've made it big and are making those Marvel movies, John Landis owns you. Oh sure, you don't actually give a damn about him, and you sure as hell won't do anything unsavory for that asshole, so there's no way he "owns" you, but maybe one day some kid comes along and he says "John Landis sent me." Ehhh... he looks like a good kid. Maybe you should hear him out. John Landis does have a pretty good eye for talent, and if this kid's going places, it'd be nice to get in with them on the ground floor. It's got nothing to do with John Landis. Fuck John Landis. You're just gonna give this kid 20 minutes of your time and listen to his idea.
That's a possible way for John Landis to wield influence, even 31 years after his last movie.
And considering that Max Landis is apparently now selling himself as a "consultant", it's probably not far from the truth.
Such a good show - but fuck John and Max Landis.
Hopefully the source material gets another shot some years from now without them involved.
Ah fuck.
And aside from how horrible of a person he is, much of his work comes off like it was done by a self-righteous edgy 15 year old who considers himself hilarious.
And aside from how horrible of a person he is, much of his work comes off like it was done by a self-righteous edgy 15 year old who considers himself hilarious.
Because we don't throw people in jail based off of mere accusations?
I knew about the Landis accusations before the big expose article but just read the article now. My God is this man the biggest scum fuck gross horrible amalgam of meat and emotions and nothing else. It seemed like he literally had no humanity with what he did to so many women and how he carried his 'friend' group.
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Seriously...? Raising the alarm that this unforgivable asshole is back and still trying to gain income in the periphery of the industry that has shunned him, given the utterly abhorrent accusations against him, and your angle is that highlighting his return to the public space is in some way bad?
Did you even read the article? What I'm hoping is that with the accusations a case can be made against him.