Careercow Max Landis

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I think why he did the script was probably a mix of he liked the super mario bros movie and wanted to show what interesting things you could actually do with that world and max landis thinking you couldnt get any real character development/interesting characterization within the mario games setting,
He also seems to like making things dark/edgy as a way to get away from the original property.
Although apparently the pokemon movie he pitched was a pretty basic pokemon story about red going on a small adventure and catching a koffing in a forest.
Max landis's thing is characters he really doesnt like bad/boring characters so he's gotten a lot of flak for his opinions on the 'feminist films' but i think thats also more because he thinks they do a disservice to feminism they use feminism as a cheap selling point rather than actually caring about feminism. Most of max's media can be easily described as feminist because they have strong female characters that often save the day and the villains are often the embodiment of toxic masculinity, its just those female characters have flaws and arent invincible to everything. He is almost certainly a female supremicist. He at least seems more realistic than a lot of the spergs, he will sperg out about a lot of other stuff but weirdly enough he keeps clear of the topic for the most part.

Spoiler: dirk gently season 2 spoilers

I think dirk Gently is really good.
Im not sure how close it is to the original source material and im only half way through the second season but for some reason i dont think the fantasy land of a child in the 50's would have the main character be a gay man and with several implied lesbians so those all seem to be landis additions and maybe the huge prevalence of rainbow colours is something he has an affinity for but would also make sense in the context.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

I unironically enjoy watching Dirk Gently and I thought Bright was a fun movie so maybe I'm more sympathetic than I should be, but he always struck me as a guy who's way less PC than he lets on. I think I saw a video about him discussing gender differences or something, so even though he has the worst Tumblr hair of all time there's still something deep down telling him these hooers shouldn't be trusted.

 

[GM 229]

CDAN posted a blind item last week that's pretty clearly about him.

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/01/blind-item-8-a-list-rapistcelebrity.html



In the comments a woman claims to have been personally assaulted by him.



She goes into more detail here on why she thinks this story hasn't gained more traction yet:



This isn't the first blind item about Landis that's been posted on the site. Another one was recently revealed during the wave of Twitter tard rage directed his way around Christmas:

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/search?q=max+landis&max-results=8




It's still odd that not a single woman - apart from a random commentator on a gossip blog - has come forward even anonymously to point a finger and claim she was assaulted directly by Landis (the apparent serial rapist and predator extraordinaire) when the MeToo movement has seen dozens of women crawling out of the woodwork (anonymously and otherwise) to demand men far more powerful and well-connected than him take responsibility for things as relatively non-eventful in comparison as some run-of-the-mill leering and ass-grabbing on a movie set in the 70s. Is he an actual rapist? It's possible. If we've learned anything from a lot of the cows on this board, it's that the relatively successful ones are often so because they have a certain skill at either manipulating public perception of them or just hiding their intense personality disorders in plain sight. Plus so many beta faggot SJW male feminists have been outed as sex pests lately that it doesn't seem too far-fetched.

Landis began posting stories to his Instagram a few days ago as well, after weeks of complete radio silence. I didn't bother recording them, but it's basically just a few 10-second clips of him at a gym working out while a friend records him yelling 'NO TWEETS! NO MORE TWEETS!' in a joking manner. He's been smart to shut up and only talk to his lawyers during this entire thing. It's possible he's lying low because he knows more shit is coming out, though since he's previously talked about not knowing what kind of information people are passing around about him it's also possible that he's just being cautious while he figures out how to handle it.

On one hand, seeing him take a nosedive and torpedo his career because he's casually ruined the lives of countless women is bound to equal some lols; you know he won't go quietly if shit starts kicking up and will likely melt down in a very public fashion. On the other hand, part of me wants this to all be a weird rumormongering character assassination by a bunch of 'twitter personalities' so he can use those millions of dollars at his and daddy Landis' disposal to bury ZQ for libel. I can't wait to see how she'll spin that.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Landis began posting stories to his Instagram a few days ago as well, after weeks of complete radio silence. I didn't bother recording them, but it's basically just a few 10-second clips of him at a gym working out while a friend records him yelling 'NO TWEETS! NO MORE TWEETS!' in a joking manner. He's been smart to shut up and only talk to his lawyers during this entire thing. It's possible he's lying low because he knows more shit is coming out, though since he's previously talked about not knowing what kind of information people are passing around about him it's also possible that he's just being cautious while he figures out how to handle it.

I like how even the most rich and famous are afflicted by social media twitter addiction, it will be a lot of their downfalls.

 

[KerryDixon9]

"This writer/producer/showrunner is probably A list right now."

No. No fucking way.

"When he finished raping her, he took her clothes and threw them out the window. He then forced her to walk through the party downstairs without any clothes on after raping her. That woman was subjected to bullying and taunts for the rest of the time she remained at the university. She was the one bullied even though he raped her."

Well that's totally believable.

 

[Rekkington]

CDAN posted a blind item last week that's pretty clearly about him.

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/01/blind-item-8-a-list-rapistcelebrity.html

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In the comments a woman claims to have been personally assaulted by him.

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She goes into more detail here on why she thinks this story hasn't gained more traction yet:

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This isn't the first blind item about Landis that's been posted on the site. Another one was recently revealed during the wave of Twitter tard rage directed his way around Christmas:

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/search?q=max+landis&max-results=8

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It's still odd that not a single woman - apart from a random commentator on a gossip blog - has come forward even anonymously to point a finger and claim she was assaulted directly by Landis (the apparent serial rapist and predator extraordinaire) when the MeToo movement has seen dozens of women crawling out of the woodwork (anonymously and otherwise) to demand men far more powerful and well-connected than him take responsibility for things as relatively non-eventful in comparison as some run-of-the-mill leering and ass-grabbing on a movie set in the 70s. Is he an actual rapist? It's possible. If we've learned anything from a lot of the cows on this board, it's that the relatively successful ones are often so because they have a certain skill at either manipulating public perception of them or just hiding their intense personality disorders in plain sight. Plus so many beta faggot SJW male feminists have been outed as sex pests lately that it doesn't seem too far-fetched.

Landis began posting stories to his Instagram a few days ago as well, after weeks of complete radio silence. I didn't bother recording them, but it's basically just a few 10-second clips of him at a gym working out while a friend records him yelling 'NO TWEETS! NO MORE TWEETS!' in a joking manner. He's been smart to shut up and only talk to his lawyers during this entire thing. It's possible he's lying low because he knows more shit is coming out, though since he's previously talked about not knowing what kind of information people are passing around about him it's also possible that he's just being cautious while he figures out how to handle it.

On one hand, seeing him take a nosedive and torpedo his career because he's casually ruined the lives of countless women is bound to equal some lols; you know he won't go quietly if shit starts kicking up and will likely melt down in a very public fashion. On the other hand, part of me wants this to all be a weird rumormongering character assassination by a bunch of 'twitter personalities' so he can use those millions of dollars at his and daddy Landis' disposal to bury ZQ for libel. I can't wait to see how she'll spin that.

It's kinda funny how he's being accused of behaving in a uniquely female manner, with the clique of "mean girls" and all the rumors and snickering and backstabbing. What a passive aggressive queen, and I choose to believe this until further notice.

 

[GM 229]

"This writer/producer/showrunner is probably A list right now."

No. No fucking way.

Yeah, the blogrunner's been called out for mislabeling the importance of certain celebrities (calling Angelina A- or J Law B+ or some faceless interchangeable American Idol winner A+ before) but it's still an almost sure bet that this is supposed to be him.

All the cows on this board are entertaining, but the mid-level mostly-internet 'successes' (Cernovich, Wu, Quinn, et al - even the Paul brothers, despite them being both millionaires and celebrities to retarded grade-schoolers) are probably some of the most fascinating case studies in human greed and stupidity. They're often just smart/resourceful/able to exploit an idiotic rabid fanbase enough to hustle their way to some level of notoriety and financial reward either through nepotism, exploitation, sheer dumb luck or just fucking the right people, but often too stupid, cruel, shortsighted and/or mentally unstable to maintain it once they have it.

Max, unlike any of the above (or fuck, even Wheaton and Day) does have some legitimate level of talent and passion for his work, as well as a solid work ethic - hence him managing to get actual movies/shows made instead of just shitting out half-baked abortions and whining about oppression/censorship when nobody cares. At his core, though, he's still a mostly above-mediocre white guy with a famous name whose entire toolbox consists of 'what if (nerdy pop culture thing you loved from childhood), but mashed up with (other nerdy pop culture thing you loved from childhood) and DARK?!?!' There are plenty of more talented young screenwriters in Hollywood who are doomed to languish in obscurity because they either don't have the freedom to write full-time without working themselves to exhaustion at a regular job in that expensive shithole of a city without daddy's money to cushion them, or daddy's name to get their foot through the door - as much as Landis likes to insist that his father had nothing to do with his success.

Another thing about Landis that makes him stand out from the other cows mentioned above is that he does, on some level, seem to possess a modicum of self-awareness that the rest of them are lacking entirely. Ill-advised youtube rants and butthurt sperging about poor reviews aside, he knows he's obnoxious and grating, he knows he looks like a tool, he had the good sense to shut up once the allegations came out instead of digging the hole deeper. I think he might actually come away from this mostly okay because of those preservative instincts (as well as a well-paid team of lawyers).

Quinn's seething hateboner for Landis is one of the funniest things about this entire episode to me, because you just know it's personal. You know he did something to injure her fragile narcissistic ego himself. Zoe Quinn doesn't give a shit whether or not someone is a rapist or an abusive POS; she's both of those things herself (rapist by her own definition) as well as a talentless opportunistic parasite who has worked with sexual predators, serial harassers/bullies and known pedophiles in the past. As long as she can use them for her own benefit, she doesn't care. Her sperging out about 'OMG IF U RAPE MY FRIENDS WATCH OUT' while all of her pathetic spineless followers wail YASSS QUEEN SLAY and throw Patreon change at her is just a performance meant to remind us that ZOE QUINN IS A PROUD FEMINIST ICON WHO WILL TAKE NO PRISONERS, YOU GUYS. She doesn't give a shit if you rape her 'friends' or not; she has no friends, only objects she can clumsily manipulate for her own gain and throw under the bus once they've worn out their use.

It's a guarantee Quinn tried to fuck Landis. He's exactly the type she preys on; a noodle-armed emotionally unstable insecure dangerhaired beta man-child with money and influence who's heavily involved in 'nerd culture' and wearing that shit like a badge. She noticed him flitting around the edges of whatever circles she's wormed her way into and saw a potential mark she could use as either a wallet or a launchpad to meet other, more famous people. Her fake BPD/sociopath charm usually works on desperate thirsty nu-males in the indie gaming sphere who haven't felt a woman's touch in years, but Max is used to fucking LA 9s and 10s; with his inability to filter anything that comes out of his mouth, a past-30 Midwest 6 with the personality of a sack of raw fish left in the hot sun for a week isn't going to elicit anything other than disgust and/or laughter from him. Going on rumors about his behavior as well as his open admission to not being able to keep his mouth shut about the appearance of the women he's fucking, we can all guess how that went.

 

[AnOminous]

"This writer/producer/showrunner is probably A list right now."

No. No fucking way.

"When he finished raping her, he took her clothes and threw them out the window. He then forced her to walk through the party downstairs without any clothes on after raping her. That woman was subjected to bullying and taunts for the rest of the time she remained at the university. She was the one bullied even though he raped her."

Well that's totally believable.

You'd think there would be literally thousands of people who would know about this.

 

[Red Hood]

Full disclosure, I really enjoy Max's Best of the Worst appearance. His movies are pretty lousy but he seems an amusing scarecrow at times.

In regards to these allegations...Max seems like too easy of a target. He's not really powerful. He's had some hits, but if you ask most film buffs he's probably most notable for being John Landis' son. If Max Landis goes down...some other nerd will take his place and make pretty much the same movies. It's not a thing like Weinstein or Spacey where empires are falling. Bright came out a few weeks ago and it feels like it's just like "Oh...he just made a thing with Will Smith, let's take a shot at him." Max raises a lot of hackles with his incessant tweeting and dumb theories, which is all that makes him a juicy target.

Maybe he's a sex weirdo, I don't know.

 

[Coconut Gun]

You'd think there would be literally thousands of people who would know about this.

Hey man, keep it between you and me, but there's this girl here that we all bully constantly. Why? Because she was raped! Lol, what a loser. Who gets raped nowadays?

 

[jezail]

For what it's worth, I went to school with Max in Miami and these allegations don't surprise me at all. We certainly were not friends, but several of my closest friends were so it was inevitable that we'd encounter each other on a regular basis. I disliked him from the day I met him, but in the sense that he was weird and annoying and not anything more dramatic than that. That changed when I noticed how he treated his girlfriend. He would constantly make disparaging remarks about her in front of others, seemed genuinely enthusiastic about making her uncomfortable and screamed in her face on several occasions. Apparently, he put his hands on her once at a party our mutual friends and I threw. I didn't see it happen myself, so take it with a grain of salt, but several witnesses told one of my roommates about it and it was serious enough to throw him out of the party. He ended up going somewhere else and getting drunker then tried to force his way back into the party. When we physically restrained him from entering the apartment, he lingered outside and tried to look in our windows to find his girlfriend. When she found out what was going on, she agreed to leave with him because she was convinced he wouldn't go away for any other reason.

The girl in question was probably the single most subservient person I've ever met. She wasn't particularly attractive and she was very meek during social occasions, but she was friendly and I don't know anyone that ever had a problem with her. I do not know if she's the person he allegedly raped. To my knowledge, she isn't, but he treated her like subhuman trash and he had no shame about doing it in front of others. That doesn't make him a rapist, but it definitely reflects important aspects of his character. Regarding the other allegations in the screenshot, I don't recall ever hearing him say anything remotely racist so I'm skeptical of that claim. Seems like the kind of thing you'd throw in so people would be like, "oh shit, he's a racist too!" as if alleged rape isn't sensational enough. The yelling at professors thing is true. Duh, he's a rich egomaniac. The constantly commenting on women's appearances thing is true. I couldn't care less about it, it's certainly not uncommon amongst hormonal twenty somethings, but it did bother me how he'd make a point of doing it in front of his girlfriend's face as yet another way to put her down.

In closing, shitty person. Not a rapist as far as I'm aware, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. Enormous misogynist (in the genuine sense, not the SJW definition that's as malleable as they need it to be to suit their agenda). He genuinely did seem to hate women. Still comfortably in my top 5 for least pleasant people I've ever encountered nearly 8 years after graduation.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

Maybe he's a sex weirdo, I don't know.

I see what you did there.

 

[PLB]

In closing, shitty person. Not a rapist as far as I'm aware, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. Enormous misogynist (in the genuine sense, not the SJW definition that's as malleable as they need it to be to suit their agenda). He genuinely did seem to hate women

I think the point is the claim is a lie hidden in truth, Having sex with a girl and then throwing their clothes out the window to embarrass them is totally a believable statement about landis you just add rape to it to make it a controversy.
Also i would heavily disagree that max is a misogynist I understand why you would think that, but I think that is far more based on how important he thinks he is in relation to everyone else. There was an interview posted earlier in the thread where he talks about being shitty to women and i would be surprised if he was more shitty to women, but being shitty to women and thinking they are inferior to men are two different things maybe we need a separate word or something.

 

[jezail]

I think the point is the claim is a lie hidden in truth, Having sex with a girl and then throwing their clothes out the window to embarrass them is totally a believable statement about landis you just add rape to it to make it a controversy.
Also i would heavily disagree that max is a misogynist I understand why you would think that, but I think that is far more based on how important he thinks he is in relation to everyone else. There was an interview posted earlier in the thread where he talks about being shitty to women and i would be surprised if he was more shitty to women, but being shitty to women and thinking they are inferior to men are two different things maybe we need a separate word or something.

There were clear differences between how he would treat women and how he would treat other men. I don't doubt that he thought he was better than others regardless of gender, but there was a readily apparent loathing that he had towards women specifically. I chose the word misogynist carefully because that's exactly what he is.

 

[GM 229]

In closing, shitty person. Not a rapist as far as I'm aware, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. Enormous misogynist (in the genuine sense, not the SJW definition that's as malleable as they need it to be to suit their agenda). He genuinely did seem to hate women. Still comfortably in my top 5 for least pleasant people I've ever encountered nearly 8 years after graduation.

Interesting. That definitely throws some more info in there for consideration.

While it's still odd to me that none of these women have come forward directly even anonymously - and I hate to quote that Pajita article about him - there are undeniably some similarities here amongst almost everyone who has had run ins with him and wasn't part of his little circlejerk. I'm willing to believe that some frothing Hollywood SJW types he pissed off are capable of colluding with some kind of conspiracy against him up to a point - and let's face it, as far as Akana and Quinn go for initial accusers you could hardly have two people with less credibility - but going on all of the verified (and mentally stable) semi-celebrity twitter accounts jumping on the 'fuck Max Landis' train and some patterns beginning to emerge, this is turning into one of those where there's smoke there's fire situations. Guess we'll just wait and see if more stories come out.

Regarding the other allegations in the screenshot, I don't recall ever hearing him say anything remotely racist so I'm skeptical of that claim. Seems like the kind of thing you'd throw in so people would be like, "oh shit, he's a racist too!" as if alleged rape isn't sensational enough.

It's possible he just went through a phase where he was making racist jokes to be 'edgy' and it wasn't something he did all the time. I can see him being dumb enough to do that. Think PewDiePie with the 'Death To All Jews' sign.

I think the point is the claim is a lie hidden in truth, Having sex with a girl and then throwing their clothes out the window to embarrass them is totally a believable statement about landis you just add rape to it to make it a controversy.

The primary point made with that story - and a lot of these other stories - is that Landis seems to get off on the degradation and/or humiliation of women or feeling like he has power over them, which is what rape is all about at its core. Bear in mind that if this isn't a rumor, he probably didn't rape her at knifepoint or violently beat her or anything - it was probably the more standard kind of rape where he got her into a room and kept going after she said stop and she just froze in fear because she was a college-aged kid and half his size with zero life experience to deal with the situation.

Also i would heavily disagree that max is a misogynist I understand why you would think that, but I think that is far more based on how important he thinks he is in relation to everyone else. There was an interview posted earlier in the thread where he talks about being shitty to women and i would be surprised if he was more shitty to women, but being shitty to women and thinking they are inferior to men are two different things maybe we need a separate word or something.

So many vocal male feminists have been exposed as closet misogynists and sexual predators lately that it wouldn't surprise me if this was all a front. Joss Whedon emotionally abused, gaslit and cheated on his wife with loads of actresses for years and left her with some severe emotional scars despite being Mr Feminism in Hollywood even before it was trendy. In any case, if these stories about Landis are true, it definitely sounds like he doesn't see women as equals deserving of respect.

 

[pozilei]

@jezail Have you posted about things like that on other sites (like reddit for instance) as well? I've been following the drama and this is a re-occurring theme. Him acting like a massive dick, especially towards girlfriends.

 

[jezail]

@jezail Have you posted about things like that on other sites (like reddit for instance) as well? I've been following the drama and this is a re-occurring theme. Him acting like a massive dick, especially towards girlfriends.

I haven't posted about him anywhere else. I've lurked here for a while because I find lolcows way too entertaining for my own good. This is the first one I've had any sort of experiences with that would be worth sharing.

Interesting. That definitely throws some more info in there for consideration.

While it's still odd to me that none of these women have come forward directly even anonymously - and I hate to quote that Pajita article about him - there are undeniably some similarities here amongst almost everyone who has had run ins with him and wasn't part of his little circlejerk. I'm willing to believe that some frothing Hollywood SJW types he pissed off are capable of colluding with some kind of conspiracy against him up to a point - and let's face it, as far as Akana and Quinn go for initial accusers you could hardly have two people with less credibility - but going on all of the verified (and mentally stable) semi-celebrity twitter accounts jumping on the 'fuck Max Landis' train and some patterns beginning to emerge, this is turning into one of those where there's smoke there's fire situations. Guess we'll just wait and see if more stories come out.

Yeah, I completely understand. Whenever people with such little credibility come out against someone, you can't help but wonder about ulterior motives. Of course, I'm just some random person on the internet, but there's nothing for me to gain by lying and I made sure to only report things that I directly experienced.

It's possible he just went through a phase where he was making racist jokes to be 'edgy' and it wasn't something he did all the time. I can see him being dumb enough to do that. Think PewDiePie with the 'Death To All Jews' sign.

That seems like a very reasonable assumption. In general, I hate accusing people of racism because I don't know what's in their heart. Wanting to shock someone or saying a slur in anger doesn't necessarily mean that you're a dyed in the wool racist, it just means you're awkward and uncomfortable to be around and that describes Max to a t.

The primary point made with that story - and a lot of these other stories - is that Landis seems to get off on the degradation and/or humiliation of women or feeling like he has power over them, which is what rape is all about at its core. Bear in mind that if this isn't a rumor, he probably didn't rape her at knifepoint or violently beat her or anything - it was probably the more standard kind of rape where he got her into a room and kept going after she said stop and she just froze in fear because she was a college-aged kid and half his size with zero life experience to deal with the situation.

Yeah, I genuinely can't imagine him using physical violence in that context. Emotional degradation/coercion on the other hand? Right up his alley. There's a reason he targeted girls with low self esteem.

So many vocal male feminists have been exposed as closet misogynists and sexual predators lately that it wouldn't surprise me if this was all a front. Joss Whedon emotionally abused, gaslit and cheated on his wife with loads of actresses for years and left her with some severe emotional scars despite being Mr Feminism in Hollywood even before it was trendy. In any case, if these stories about Landis are true, it definitely sounds like he doesn't see women as equals deserving of respect.

It's the whole "thou doth protest too much" phenomenon. Ted Haggard preached against homosexuality for decades, then it came out that he was fucking male prostitutes while high on meth. I wouldn't paint every vocal male feminist with that brush, I'm sure some of them are sincere, but I would expect that a significant number of them are projecting.

 

[Doug_Hitzel]

There were clear differences between how he would treat women and how he would treat other men. I don't doubt that he thought he was better than others regardless of gender, but there was a readily apparent loathing that he had towards women specifically. I chose the word misogynist carefully because that's exactly what he is.

He hates women because he’s gay. Seriously, who the fuck would consider this heterosexual?

He’s one shave away from speedrunning Metroid on twitch.

 

[Red Hood]

Well he does have that look of love for Rich Evans, but I didn't think that meant you were confirmed for gay. I thought we all looked at Rich like that.

EDIT: And I want to make clear that I'm trying to not let the fact that I enjoyed his BotW appearance affect my judgment on Max. He is probably a piece of shit in some degree. I just want there to be some hard evidence before I have to stop laughing at "Rich, talk about his ball sack!"

 

[AnAspieWithAVengeance]

If he's gay, that would explain a lot. I mean, just, look at him.