{"id":29442,"date":"2013-07-18T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=29442"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:49:55","slug":"max-landis-not-scripting-chronicle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/18\/max-landis-not-scripting-chronicle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Landis Not Scripting CHRONICLE 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Chronicle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22449\" title=\"Chronicle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Chronicle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Chronicle.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Chronicle-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screenwriter Max Landis had stated that he was anxious to take the sequel to his surprise hit movie of teens who gain telekinetic superpowers into a darker territory than he already explored in the first film. However, he won&#8217;t be getting that chance. Last evening, he tweeted that he and studio Twentieth Century Fox had parted ways over him scripting the upcoming <strong>Chronicle 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uptomyknees\/statuses\/357674372984610817<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uptomyknees\/statuses\/357674788673691651<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uptomyknees\/statuses\/357674921528262657<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uptomyknees\/statuses\/357675346595823617<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uptomyknees\/statuses\/357676903563403264<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uptomyknees\/statuses\/357676971838279681<\/p>\n<p>This turn of events is unsurprising as his father, director John Landis, had mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/11\/fox-wants-more-of-the-same-for-chronicle-sequel-writer-wants-to-evolve-story\/\">last October<\/a> that Max was meeting with some resistance from the studio over where he wanted to take the sequel&#8217;s story. For his part, Max seems to be fairly sanguine about this turn of events, perhaps because he grew up seeing his father work on developing projects that didn&#8217;t happen for the usual various reasons that potential films fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>While we won&#8217;t have a Landis-penned <strong>Chronicle<\/strong> sequel in our future, we do have his <strong>Frankenstein<\/strong> adaptation to look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The studio did not want to go as dark as Landis wanted to go.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/18\/max-landis-not-scripting-chronicle-2\/\" title=\"Max Landis Not Scripting CHRONICLE 2\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4916,4276],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-chronicle-2","8":"tag-max-landis"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29442"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=29442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}