---
name: "Max Landis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/max-landis"
fi1m_id: "max-landis"
imdb_id: "nm0484840"
tmdb_id: 203285
wikidata_id: "Q3302192"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 August 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-06T04:36:33.855051+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Max Landis

## Identity

Max Landis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/max-landis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** max-landis
- **IMDb ID:** nm0484840
- **TMDB ID:** 203285
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3302192
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3302192, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/203285

Writer. Born 3 August 1985 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 August 1985, Beverly Hills, California, USA
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 47 (1), 2010s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3302192, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/203285

## Biography

Max Landis is an American writer and filmmaker. He is the son of director John Landis and was born on 3 August 1985 in Beverly Hills, California.

He wrote the screenplay and story for the film *Chronicle* (2012). His other credits include the screenplays for *American Ultra* (2015), *Victor Frankenstein* (2015) and *Bright* (2017), and he created the television series *Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency* (2016). He was included in Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30" lists in 2011 and 2012. His career stalled following accusations of emotional and sexual abuse made against him in 2017.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Chronicle* (2012), Fi1m 72, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/chronicle.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Spies Like Us* (1985), Fi1m 47, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/spies-like-us.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Z! The Magical Girl* (2025), Director, Screenplay
- *Shadow in the Cloud* (2021), Writer
- *Bright* (2017), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Assholes* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency* (2016), series, Writer, Teleplay, Creator
- *Me Him Her* (2016), as Party Bystander · Director, Music, Screenplay
- *Mr. Right* (2016), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Victor Frankenstein* (2015), Screenplay, Story
- *American Ultra* (2015), Screenplay
- *Wrestling Isn't Wrestling* (2015), as Max Landis · Director, Writer, Producer
- *Jane LA* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Chronicle* (2012), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/chronicle.md)
- *The Death and Return of Superman* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Burke & Hare* (2010), as Handsome Coachman
- *Something with Bite* (2009), Writer
- *Fear Itself* (2008), series, Writer
- *Deer Woman* (2006), Writer
- *Blues Brothers 2000* (1998), as Ghostrider
- *The Stupids* (1996), as Graffiti Artist
- *Spies Like Us* (1985), Thanks — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/spies-like-us.md)
- *Deeper*, Story, Screenplay
- *An American Werewolf in London*, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.](https://film.one/media/person/5546887/gallery-2171a7f4c41f.jpg) Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Max_Landis_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Max_Landis_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg](https://film.one/media/person/5546887/gallery-3d1050bdbea6.jpg) Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Max_Landis_%2836102882462%29.jpg/1280px-Max_Landis_%2836102882462%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg](https://film.one/media/person/5546887/gallery-9ca618fa4b6b.jpg) Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Max_Landis_%2836103011282%29.jpg/1280px-Max_Landis_%2836103011282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg](https://film.one/media/person/5546887/gallery-f9e95d68a96d.jpg) Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Max_Landis_%2836136613371%29.jpg/1280px-Max_Landis_%2836136613371%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Max Landis](https://film.one/media/person/5546887/gallery-89ecb65f88ae.jpg) Max Landis — Image via TMDB
- ![Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg](https://film.one/media/person/5546887/gallery-eeb93f38249f.jpg) Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Max_Landis_%2836103002102%29.jpg/1280px-Max_Landis_%2836103002102%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Elijah Wood and Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Ce](https://film.one/media/person/5546887/gallery-d94b08cd88c2.jpg) Elijah Wood and Max Landis speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", at the San Diego Convention Ce — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Elijah_Wood_%26_Max_Landis_%2836102848652%29.jpg/1280px-Elijah_Wood_%26_Max_Landis_%2836102848652%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/max-landis