Max Landis
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Landis in 2012
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| Born |
August 3, 1985 Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, film director, producer, comic book writer, actor |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Parent(s) |
John Landis Deborah Nadoolman Landis |
Max Landis (born August 3, 1985) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and actor. He is best known for writing the films Chronicle (2012), American Ultra (2015), and Victor Frankenstein (2015), a film adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, as well as a variety of short films including The Death and Return of Superman and Wrestling Isn't Wrestling. Recently, he has acted as an executive producer on the Syfy anthology horror series Channel Zero, as well as creator and showrunner for the American adaptation of Douglas Adams' science fiction detective comedy novel series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on BBC America, which both premiered in October 2016.
Landis has also written for comic books, beginning as the author of the DC Comics seven-issue mini-series Superman: American Alien (2015-2016) and continuing with the nine-issue medieval fantasy drama series Green Valley for Image Comics (2016–present).
He is the son of director John Landis and costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis.
Landis was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of director John Landis and costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis. His family is Jewish. He left Beverly Hills High School for a therapeutic boarding school in Connecticut, but still graduated with Beverly Hills High School diploma.
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