Max Landis
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.
Works
The Society: Endangered Species
"The Society: Endangered Species" is a surrealist feature length film, produced as part of The Kryptonian Epic is a multi-media art project based on published DC Comics
Release Date: 2023-05-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Clark Kent/Oliver Queen/Barry Allen/Lex Luthor/Gerard Shugel
Vote Count: 1
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.
Release Date: 2021-07-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character:
Vote Count: 1
Shadow in the Cloud
A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
Release Date: 2020-12-31
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 987
Bright
In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.
Release Date: 2017-12-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5689
Assholes
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.
Release Date: 2017-03-11
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 10
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ wildly successful comic novels.
Release Date: 2016-10-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 788
Me Him Her
Three very different people in their twenties try to figure out love, sex, identity and friendship in Los Angeles.
Release Date: 2016-03-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Party Bystander
Vote Count: 36
Mr. Right
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.
Release Date: 2016-02-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1347
Victor Frankenstein
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Release Date: 2015-11-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2145
American Ultra
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.
Release Date: 2015-08-19
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2781
Jane LA
A man films a friend's mysterious art project, which she calls, "The Bomb".
Release Date: 2014-12-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character:
Video Games: The Movie
From executive producer Zach Braff and director Jeremy Snead, "Video Games: The Movie" is an epic feature length documentary chronicling the meteoric rise of video games from nerd niche to multi-billion dollar industry. Narrated by Sean Astin and featuring in-depth interviews with the godfathers who started it all, the icons of game design, and the geek gurus who are leading us into the future, "Video Games: The Movie" is a celebration of gaming from Atari to Xbox and an eye-opening look at what lies ahead.
Release Date: 2014-07-18
Character: Self
Vote Count: 222
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?
Release Date: 2014-06-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character:
Vote Count: 1
The 3:07 AM Project
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.
Release Date: 2013-07-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Chronicle
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.
Release Date: 2012-02-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 5341
Burke & Hare
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Release Date: 2010-10-29
Character: Handsome Coachman
Vote Count: 469
Modern Romance
Dave Caldwell, a lonely door-to-door salesman, who, upon getting syphilis, meets the girl of his dreams, while trying to inform her roommate (an ex partner of his) that she may be infected. Fearing loss of losing his new found love, Dave opts not to tell the roommate -- with disastrous results.
Release Date: 2010-01-02
Ghost Closet '07
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...
Release Date: 2009-05-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Ghost Girl / Ghost Cowboy 1 / The Gentleman Ghost
Fear Itself
A horror/suspense anthology series directed by the biggest horror directors working in feature films.
Release Date: 2008-06-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 158
Working with a Master: John Landis
Short documentary about John Landis and his horror works.
Release Date: 2006-06-27
Character: Self
Spies Like Us
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Release Date: 1985-12-06
Department: Crew
Job: Thanks
Vote Count: 633
An American Werewolf in London
As she travels through the UK with her boyfriend, Alex is bitten by a werewolf in this remake of the 1981 classic.
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Deeper
An astronaut on a deep-sea dive exploring a newly discovered trench soon finds himself confronted by a sinister & dangerous force.
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Blues Brothers 2000
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.
Release Date: 1998-02-05
Character: Ghostrider
Vote Count: 682
The Stupids
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
Release Date: 1996-08-08
Character: Graffiti Artist
Vote Count: 73