2012 Movie News Archives

February 7, 2012: Another Response to Max Landis Superman Parody

Max Landis Superman Homepage staff writer Jeffrey Taylor has submitted an article to movies.com on his views on the "Death and Return of Superman" parody created by Max Landis... and actually gets a direct response from Max himself.

    Max Landis (writer of the found footage superpowers movie Chronicle) recently rounded up several celebrity actors to produce a parody piece explaining the events of the story. Although it has some amusing moments, it's clear to anyone who has read the story that he's working off a memory of the plot that he doesn't appear to have looked at again since it was published when he was seven years old.

    Let it be known that I love this story and that I'm a huge Superman fan, but I stopped being bothered by people who dislike or make fun of the character when I was a teenager. It's just not worth it. This is different.

    Parody is fine, but what a number of fans are bothered by is that although some of his claims are spot-on, he also makes fun of things he completely fabricated himself. With plenty of real story elements to parody, why didn't he at least read it again and get the information correct, especially in post-production elements.

Read Jeffrey's complete report at movies.com, and check out the response he received from Max Landis.

Look for further discussion on this topic in the up-coming Episode #128 of the "From Crisis to Crisis" podcast hosted by Michael Bailey and Jeffrey Bridges.



2012 Movie News

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