The offspring of an A+ list director is also in the business and has been exposed in this space and others for just how awful he is.
Apparently it gets worse as he has been trolling for new victims by posing as a teen on social media.
Offspring: Max Landis
A+ list director: John Landis
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Max Landis Accused of Rape, Assault and Psychological Abuse
Screenwriter Max Landis is facing allegations of se.xual abuse and psychological manipulation from eight women who told their stories to the Daily Beast.
Two of the women spoke on the record, and another five were identified by pseudonyms. An eighth women confirmed that she filed a police complaint against Landis in 2008, in which she alleged that he had se.xually assaulted her while she was drunk and incapacitated. The case was later dropped.
Three of the women alleged that Landis choked them. One woman alleged that Landis held her down and raped her, and would deliberately humiliate her because wanted to have se.x with her while she was crying. Two more women described accounts of alleged se.xual misconduct on movie sets.- Source
Landis has been criticized for statements he has made about women, and he has been accused of abuse and se.xual misconduct by several women and industry figures.
Misogyny accusations
In a 2013 interview with self-styled se.xologist Shelby Sells, Landis made numerous comments about women, such as “the most fucked up thing was that I cheated on a girl who I also gave a crippling social anxiety, self-loathing, body dysmorphia, eating disorder to”. Landis’ statements were sharply criticized as misogynist and objectifying of women, such as in a Jezebel piece which described his comments as “obnoxious”, “twisted”, and “gross”.
In a 2015 Twitter post, Landis described the lead character Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a “Mary Sue”, a term originating in critiques of fan fiction to describe “a type of female character who is depicted as unrealistically lacking in flaws or weaknesses”. He later stated in an interview that he stood by his criticism, but “I regret framing it that way. I didn’t understand that the term ‘Mary Sue’ had been co-opted”.
se.xual assault accusations
In December 2017, Landis was accused of se.xual assault by former co-worker Anna Akana. MAD Magazine editor Allie Goertz had commented several weeks earlier about “a famous director’s son,” that she “couldn’t imagine someone more scared in a post-Harvey Weinstein world,” and various entertainment-industry figures commented in response about this person’s bad reputation without naming him. Following Akana’s statement, other industry figures confirmed Landis’ reputation by name. Anti-harassment activist Zoe Quinn posted about Landis, alleging that his abuse of women was an “open secret” in Hollywood, and that they’d been withholding the story because “him & his dad are powerful figures.”
In June 2019, Landis’ former girlfriend Whitney Moore posted on Twitter about him, referring to “horrific, inhumane things he did to me”, and The Daily Beast published accusations from eight women about emotional and se.xual abuse by him, one describing him as “a serial rapist, gaslighter, physical and psychological abuser.” In a Twitter post expressing support for Landis’ accusers, Chronicle director Josh Trank said that he had banned the writer from the set during filming. Landis’ management company Writ Large and his manager Britton Rizzio stated that they had dropped him “as soon as they heard about” the Daily Beast story. – Source
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