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Wesley Willis said:
ROFL

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Because you apparently can't even read the message at the top of every page:
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This doesn't mean much right now though, scripts get written and shelved all the time, writers get swapped out etc.

This stood out to me:
And he has continued to deliver his takes on superheroes, seen in as series of YouTube videos including one titled Max Landis Presents: The Deposition of Barry Allen. (Allen is the alter ego of DC hero The Flash.) The long monologue, which are Landis’ online specialties, is delivered by the writer in character as Allen and could be seen as a paralleling his life. He plays Allen as a persecuted, bordering-on-mad, scientist whose career is over but is then given a chance to work again by evil billionaire Lex Luthor, who is hiring other criminals for his secret endeavors.
“I’m not one of the psychos,” Landis as Allen says near the end of the piece. “I’m just a genius.”
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This sounds fucking godawful so I had to check it out and boy is it ever:

For those not willing to sit through 35 minutes of Max Landis jerking himself off, it's a very cringe, overwritten "video narrative performance art piece" that is yet another example of Max's obsession with fanfiction that butchers comic book characters everybody knows and loves. There is nothing redeeming or even worth archiving in this, it's just Max fellating himself for half an hour. We've archived enough of that to last a lifetime already.
 

Paramount Passes on ‘G.I. Joe’ Treatment from Max Landis (EXCLUSIVE)​

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Paramount Pictures and Hasbro are not moving forward with a take on a new G.I. Joe movie from screenwriter Max Landis, multiple sources told Variety.

Landis, son of “Trading Places” director John Landis, was engaged by the studio and the toymaker earlier this year for a script treatment surrounding the iconic action figures. New film leadership at Paramount are prioritizing the relaunch of this IP and others, including “Star Trek.”
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Paramount passed on Landis’ treatment for creative reasons, one source added. The studio is still in talks with and awaiting scripts from other writers, including “The Righteous Gemstones” star Danny McBride.

Reached via Instagram, Landis told Variety he was “tremendously grateful to have been given the opportunity.” He elaborated that his pitch came together “very serendipitously based on the coolness of the weird and subversive idea.” That idea centered around the film franchise’s villain, Cobra, “having successfully taken over the world and reduced GI Joe to a conspiracy theory. But this is just how big IP development always is. Honestly, I was surprised it was reported at all.”

Paramount Pictures did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A rep for Hasbro could not immediately be reached for comment.

News of Landis pitching on the project grabbed headlines, as his career cratered after allegations of sexual assault and other misconduct were brought against him in 2016 by eight women. At the time, Landis was dropped from agency CAA and multiple development projects set up at studios were cancelled.

Call it one less man headache for David Ellison’s media empire. The studio came on board as distributor for a new “Rush Hour” movie from Hollywood pariah Brett Ratner (himself accused of sexual harassment and assault in the #MeToo movement) last year. To say nothing of the ongoing drama with Paramount president Jeff Shell, currently under investigation for allegedly leaking privileged information to an outside party – one suing him for $150 million.
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