"Eight women spoke to The Daily Beast accusing him of emotional and physical abuse and sexual assault. "He sees something shiny and he wants it. He's like, I have to have it," one said. "He would systematically try to have sex with all the women I knew. We're not people to him.""
"According to The Hollywood Reporter, David Ellison's Paramount has commissioned a relaunch of G.I. Joe from Landis. At the same time, it has asked for one from Danny McBride. Rather than a somewhat normal for Hollywood bakeoff, Paramount plans to kind of smush the two scripts together into one IP chimera."
"This is the first big gig for Landis since 2020, when he was taken off Shadow in the Cloud because of the sexual-assault allegations. In August 2021, Landis wrote an essay titled "Why I Never Responded to My Public Shaming," claiming the accusations against him were a "somewhat corrupt enterprise.""
Max Landis, son of director John Landis and writer of Chronicle and Bright, has secured a major film project despite serious allegations against him. In 2019, eight women accused him of emotional, physical abuse, and sexual assault, leading to his removal from the film Shadow in the Cloud in 2020. Now, Paramount has commissioned Landis to write a G.I. Joe relaunch alongside Danny McBride. The studio plans to potentially blend both scripts into a single project, though sources indicate they may remain separate. This represents Landis's first significant industry assignment since the allegations and his subsequent 2021 essay dismissing the accusations as a "somewhat corrupt enterprise."
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