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Max Landis, remember him? Son of John Landis? Writer of Chronicle, Bright, and that 150-page essay<\/a> mansplaining Carly Rae Jepsen? Accused of emotional and sexual abuse by eight women in 2019<\/a>? Yeah, him. He\u2019s doing a G.I. Joe movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, David Ellison\u2019s Paramount<\/a> 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. \u201cAccording to several sources, the studio will then try to blend the two scripts into one, but a studio source says that these are to be separate projects,\u201d THR says. Kind of like when you take the head off one G.I. Joe doll and put it on the body of another.<\/p>\n 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. Eight women spoke to The Daily Beast<\/a> accusing him of emotional and physical abuse and sexual assault. \u201cHe sees something shiny and he wants it. He\u2019s like, I have to have it,\u201d one said. \u201cHe would systematically try to have sex with all the women I knew. We\u2019re not people to him.\u201d In August 2021, Landis wrote an essay titled \u201cWhy I Never Responded to My Public Shaming<\/a>,\u201d claiming the accusations against him were a \u201csomewhat corrupt enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: C Flanigan\/FilmMagic Max Landis, remember him? Son of John Landis? Writer of Chronicle, Bright, and that 150-page…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[92895,430,156,167365,167366,167364,409,111,139,69,421,167367],"class_list":{"0":"post-306104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-metoo","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-g-i-joe","12":"tag-gi-joe","13":"tag-max-landis","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-paramount","19":"tag-uncanceled"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}