What Does Paramount Have Brewing? Max Landis — Who Was #MeToo’d — Is Writing a ‘G.I. Joe’ Treatment

All eyes are on Paramount-Skydance after the seismic news on Thursday that it won out in its bid over Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. So what does the studio have in the works on the film side? Among the IP that Paramount is looking to mine is “G.I. Joe,” and a curious name is lined up to submit a draft for a new film: Max Landis.

Landis, the son of “The Blues Brothers” director John Landis, is the writer of the found footage movie “Chronicle” and the Will Smith fantasy movie “Bright,” but is better known for having been accused of emotional and sexual abuse back in 2019, derailing his career. Eight women accused Landis in a report in The Daily Beast that led to him being dropped by his management company, to being disavowed by one of his film’s directors, and to another project falling apart.

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