Careercow Max Landis

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Hobbes said:
I went to school with Max in Miami as well and was his friend. At first as an on/off lurker I wasn't going to comment about the CDAN post because the allegations were so ludicrous people could see they were bs.(Beyond the wacky naked girl part, the racist accusations are equally untrue. He was the only white person in the black students group at the college.)

As someone who spent a good amount of time around him I never saw him ever publicly criticize his girlfriend(s) or scream at them or "put his hands on them" or any of the behavior you are talking about. I've never even heard this story of him being thrown out of party that you mentioned.

Max has talked in interviews about how he would pressure girls into changing their appearance for his sake. I can attest to this, (Clothes, hair, etc. Didn't seem like a weight issue, the girls were already thin) however any such pressuring happened between the two of them privately. I never saw any of this behavior publicly. The only "misogynist" behavior I saw was for a few months between relationships he fucked around a with a few girls at the same time.

The truth is Max has always had a huge target on his back because of his personality. He's very loud, energetic, center of attention, take charge kind of person. Typically when people meet him they either love/hate him immediately as his personality can be overwhelming. Plus he's not at all shy about telling people if he doesn't like or disagrees with them.
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GhostButt said:
"Hobbes"

Max WISHES he was on that level. Bet he's working on his dark future Calvin & Hobbes spec script right now. God could you imagine the obnoxious millennial take? With Max as adult present day Calvin of course.
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Bill Watterson is a notoriously nice person but he would chop up anyone who fucked with C&H with an axe and maybe even use a chainsaw.
 
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Update on Max: he posted some more stories to his Instagram a few days ago of him playing with a bulldog, nothing nearly as entertaining as his late-night Ambien freakout. Six weeks radio silence now. As much of a clown as Landis is, I'll admit I'm almost impressed with how much self-restraint he's shown over his public pillorying compared to our other lolcows.
 
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Clark Griswold said:
Update on Max: he posted some more stories to his Instagram a few days ago of him playing with a bulldog, nothing nearly as entertaining as his late-night Ambien freakout. Six weeks radio silence now. As much of a clown as Landis is, I'll admit I'm almost impressed with how much self-restraint he's shown over his public pillorying compared to our other lolcows.
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Is he still doing the Bright sequel?
 
Max really isn't a true lolcow, he's a mild narcissist with a specific scope of the 'tism at worst. If he wasn't the screenw riting kid of a famous director he'd just be some fan fiction writing kid that works at an FYE and doesn't bother anyone
 
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I've been following him on Instagram since Quinn sperged out at him on Twitter. Lot of innocuous stuff - him playing with babies, hanging out with dogs, dancing in public, making a show of the fact the he has a girlfriend and treats her well on camera. Standard politician damage control stuff, really. He'll step back from the limelight, keep selling scripts. He'll be fine. In a year or so nobody will even remember Twitter turning on him.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
I don't believe he sexually harassed anyone based on the lack of evidence. Seemed like an SJW witch hunt to me.
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It was about as transparent as the current hunt:

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Zaryiu said:
What about his 436 pages long take on Mario #LANDISMARIO?
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its badly conceived and hugely bloated but i dont think theres anyone who wants to read all the way through and i think the youtube video i found about it got deleted because i can t for the life of me find it, if you want to read it and pull out choice bits then go ahead but its too big an undertaking to be worth it for me at least.
 
Exceptional Mafioso said:
No.

Red Letter Media hasn't featured him lately so nobody has been paying attention.
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I just watched the episode he was on and my God does he have that grating, annoying millenial humor. He kept stepping on everyone's takes and ended up coming off as incredibly awkward.

He doesn't seem like a terrible guy. He's the friend of a friend that you despondently sigh over when you learn he was invited to an event you did not want him at.
 
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Some (oldish) news (archive):
Class canceled after students plan protest against Max Landis

A Dodge College of Film and Media Arts class was canceled Nov. 7 after a student in the class sent out an email about sexual assault accusations leveled against Max Landis, a screenwriter and producer who was set to guest lecture in the class that evening.

Some students had planned a walkout during the class to protest Landis’ appearance. Landis decided not to attend, causing Joseph Rosenberg, the class’s instructor, to send out an email just over an hour before the class to say it was canceled due to “planned events that would have jeopardized the purpose of the evening.”

In a Instagram story posed on his account, @uptomyknees1985, Landis said Nov. 7 that he’d chosen not to attend the class, which was the New Era of Television, after hearing that students intended to “disrupt his presence.”

“I’d hoped to use this opportunity not only to teach some interesting ins and outs about screenwriting, but also to address my public shaming in an honest and personal way,” he wrote on Instagram. “I see now that that is not welcome or needed by students.”

Landis declined an interview with The Panther.

Two days before Landis was set to speak to the New Era of Television class, Madison Geihs, a senior television writing and production major, sent the mass email to the class that included two links to articles from Screen Rant and the Daily Beast reporting on accusations against Landis.

It was “common sense” for Geihs to make the class aware of the allegations, she told The Panther.

“It was also a safety concern for me, because there are so many young women in our class,” Geihs said. “We are young college students. Having someone like that in our presence … I think it’s important for us to know his background.”

Geihs also prepared a statement to read to in front of Landis and the class before leading the planned walkout, which more than 80 students said they would attend on Facebook.

“I think that the university is more interested in how they are perceived by the public rather than how the students feel about the people they invite here,” said Geihs, who was asked to meet with Janell Shearer, the chair of the college’s Media Arts division, after she planned the walkout.

In an email to the class sent the afternoon of Nov. 7, Rosenberg asked students not to protest, saying that while some “very important men” have recently lost their jobs in the industry, there is no information about the accusations against Landis other than what had been reported on by the two news outlets.

“While you are certainly free to express your opinions on this subject elsewhere, faculty control classroom discussion,” Rosenberg wrote. “I have heard that a few students are planning a walkout, which would be rude to our guest and does not fit the kind of behavior we expect of Dodge College students.”

Other students in the class also sent emails to Rosenberg and Jerry Price, dean of students, to express their discontent with Landis’ scheduled appearance, according to the walkout’s Facebook page.

“This situation demonstrates to me how fundamentally (the Dodge administration) misunderstood the purpose of the #MeToo and #TimesUpmovements,” wrote senior screenwriting major Jake Naturman in an email to Rosenberg that he posted on Facebook. “By putting the prestige of Dodge College above its students and treating our voices as embarrassments to the school, I feel embarrassed to be a part of it.”

Neither Rosenberg nor Shearer responded to The Panther’s request for comment.

Junior Gianna Gravalese, who is enrolled in the class, said she was surprised Landis was asked to speak at the class, given the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.

“I completely understand that professors want for us to be civil and learn about the industry, but with everything going on, how could you ignore that?” Gravalese, a news and documentary major, told The Panther. “I respect that (Rosenberg) said that if we didn’t want to come, he understands, but it kind of turned into ‘Oh, don’t say anything.’”

Landis, who wrote the Netflix film “Bright” starring Will Smith, has been accused on social media of sexually harassing and assaulting multiple women. He is the son of “Animal House” director John Landis.

Actress Anna Akana, who worked with Landis on his YouTube short film project “Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling” took to Twitter to respond to Netflix’s promotion of “Bright” in 2017.

“Written by a psychopath who sexually abused and assaults women, right?” she tweeted. “Cool.”

Zoe Quinn, a video game developer, also tweeted about Landis, saying that his behavior has “probably been an open secret (in the industry) for so long,” because women may be afraid to speak out because of potential consequences.

Writer Lindsay Romain also alleged on Twitter that Landis is a “ritual sex abuser.”

Comedian and SNL writer Mike Drucker, tweeted in response to Netflix’s “Bright” promotion that Landis’ father may have covered up for his actions.

In a 2013 now-deleted interview with sex and relationship blogger Shelby Sells, Landis talks about an ex-girlfriend he “gave a (sic) crippling social anxiety, self-loathing, body dismorphia (sic), eating disorder to.”

“I was so fickle about her body. I’m not shy, I would just blurt out (expletive) all the time,” Landis said in the interview, according to the Daily Beast. “She ended up completely changing how she dressed and how she looked for me. That chick will never talk to me again.”
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TL;DR: About a month ago Max was supposed to do a guest lecture at some college in California, some student sent out a mass email to the class bringing up the abuse allegations from last year and they planned a walkout, Max canceled.
 
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TiggerNits said:
Max really isn't a true lolcow, he's a mild narcissist with a specific scope of the 'tism at worst. If he wasn't the screenw riting kid of a famous director he'd just be some fan fiction writing kid that works at an FYE and doesn't bother anyone
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He was kind of a lolcow during that time period (2015-2017, right?) where he really put himself out there (very active on social media, interviews, public appearances, rants he uploaded, etc) and was very active on social media. Hell, the connection with redlettermedia started with them criticizing a film he worked on, which led to a long twitter thread from Landis in response. Now, I'd say he's inactive.
 
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