American screenwriter and producer Max Landis is accused of sexual abuse and emotional abuse. Eight women tell their stories in The Daily Beast. According to the women, 33-year-old Landis, who wrote the screenplay for films such as Chronicle and American Ultra, is manipulative and mean. He was said to be violent and to have raped some of the women when he was in a relationship with them. It is not the first time that Landis has been accused of abuse. When the film Bright, written by him, was released in 2017, in which Will Smith plays the leading role, stories were already circulating. Landis is the son of John Landis, the director of famous films such as The Blues Brothers and Coming to America and the music videos of Michael Jackson's songs Thriller and Black or White.

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