Max Landis

Max Landis

Birth : 1985-08-03, Beverly Hills, California, USA

History

Max Landis (born August 3, 1985) is an American screenwriter best known for his work on the films "Chronicle" (2012), "American Ultra" (2015), "Victor Frankenstein" (2015), and "Bright" (2017). He is the son of filmmaker John Landis.

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Max Landis

Movies

The Deposition of Barry Allen
Director
A video narrative performance art piece, detailing a specific moment in the life of Barry Allen, as he appears in The Kryptonian Epic.
The Deposition of Barry Allen
Barry Allen
A video narrative performance art piece, detailing a specific moment in the life of Barry Allen, as he appears in The Kryptonian Epic.
The Death of Batman
Producer
A video narrative performance art piece, detailing a specific moment in the lives of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, as they appear in The Kryptonian Epic.
The Death of Batman
Director
A video narrative performance art piece, detailing a specific moment in the lives of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, as they appear in The Kryptonian Epic.
The Death of Batman
Writer
A video narrative performance art piece, detailing a specific moment in the lives of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, as they appear in The Kryptonian Epic.
The Death of Batman
A video narrative performance art piece, detailing a specific moment in the lives of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, as they appear in The Kryptonian Epic.
Shadow in the Cloud
Writer
A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
Bright
Writer
In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.
Assholes
Executive Producer
Adah and Aaron are recovering addicts who are struggling to stay sober. After meeting in their psychoanalyst’s waiting room, they fall in love, relapse on poppers, and become the biggest assholes in New York City.
Me Him Her
Party Bystander
Three very different people in their twenties try to figure out love, sex, identity and friendship in Los Angeles.
Me Him Her
Music
Three very different people in their twenties try to figure out love, sex, identity and friendship in Los Angeles.
Me Him Her
Screenplay
Three very different people in their twenties try to figure out love, sex, identity and friendship in Los Angeles.
Me Him Her
Director
Three very different people in their twenties try to figure out love, sex, identity and friendship in Los Angeles.
Mr. Right
Executive Producer
A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.
Mr. Right
Writer
A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.
Victor Frankenstein
Story
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Victor Frankenstein
Screenplay
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
American Ultra
Writer
Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
Jane LA
A man films a friend's mysterious art project, which she calls, "The Bomb".
Jane LA
Writer
A man films a friend's mysterious art project, which she calls, "The Bomb".
Jane LA
Director
A man films a friend's mysterious art project, which she calls, "The Bomb".
Slap
Bringing together forty randomly paired people, Max Landis conducts an interesting social experiment: having complete strangers slap each other in the face on their first meeting. Can a bit of hostility-free violence lead to intimacy?
Slap
Producer
Bringing together forty randomly paired people, Max Landis conducts an interesting social experiment: having complete strangers slap each other in the face on their first meeting. Can a bit of hostility-free violence lead to intimacy?
Slap
Director
Bringing together forty randomly paired people, Max Landis conducts an interesting social experiment: having complete strangers slap each other in the face on their first meeting. Can a bit of hostility-free violence lead to intimacy?
The 3:07 AM Project
Director
The devil's hour, which takes place at 3:07 AM, is the most haunted time of the day. VICE and The Conjuring selected four directors to create short horror films inspired by that idea. Each one is distinctly twisted and scary.
Chronicle
Story
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.
Chronicle
Screenplay
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.
Burke & Hare
Handsome Coachman
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Ghost Closet '07
Ghost Girl / Ghost Cowboy 1 / The Gentleman Ghost
Four young men go to a house party none of them want to go to, have a bad time and learn nothing about themselves. Until one of them goes into a closet full of ghosts...
Ghost Closet '07
Writer
Four young men go to a house party none of them want to go to, have a bad time and learn nothing about themselves. Until one of them goes into a closet full of ghosts...
Working with a Master: John Landis
Self
Short documentary about John Landis and his horror works.
Blues Brothers 2000
Ghostrider
Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.
The Stupids
Graffiti Artist
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
Writer
"Clark... how do YOU feel about what happened?" Trapped into a surprise confrontation with Lex Luthor's "Suicide Squad", Clark Kent found himself battling world- class assassins in a burning building filled with civilians, as the National Guard steadily approached. Reacting in the moment, Clark Kent offered Floyd Lawton, the squad's leader, multiple chances to surrender. But after Lawton refused, and plunged the situation into chaos, "Superman" terminated the entire team, one by one. One night later, Lois Lane, Clark's longtime girlfriend, and Pete Ross, his closest friend, had a somewhat awkward dinner at Lois' apartment. This is what was said.
An American Werewolf in London
Writer
Remake of the 80's classic.
An American Werewolf in London
Director
Remake of the 80's classic.
Deeper
Producer
A former astronaut is hired to take a submersible to the lowest point in the ocean. As the submersible gets closer to its destination, supernatural events transpire.
Deeper
Writer
A former astronaut is hired to take a submersible to the lowest point in the ocean. As the submersible gets closer to its destination, supernatural events transpire.