Screenwriter Max Landis is sharing the sequence of occasions that led to his laptop computer being misplaced — and subsequently returned by a homeless individual.
On Thursday, the Chronicle screenwriter took to his Instagram Story to disclose that he misplaced his laptop computer containing “over 10,000 pages of writing, two novels, 61 unfinished scripts, and the whole lot of the 5 initiatives I used to be engaged on this yr in addition to final yr, a few of them with different writers.”
In keeping with Landis, who’s the son of Blues Brothers filmmaker John Landis, he left the pc on a curb in Los Angeles, however by the point he realized he had misplaced it, it was gone.
“I don’t repeatedly again up my laptop,” he stated. “I have no idea the way to course of this loss.”
Nevertheless, on Friday morning, the Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Company creator returned to Instagram to share that his buddy, listening to in regards to the “insane” incident, went again to the spot he left it at, requested round, and a homeless individual handed it to them.
“All people reaching out truly did make me really feel a bit of extra hopeful, and led to me GETTING MY WRITING BACK!!!” Landis added in one other Story publish.
Social media customers flocked to X (previously Twitter) to share their ideas on the incident. “Lots occurring however it’s good that we are able to all come collectively to dunk on Max Landis,” one X person joked, whereas one other added that the laptop computer being discovered was a “devastating flip of occasions.”
Landis has confronted widespread criticism of his work up to now, and in 2019, eight girl got here ahead to accuse the author of rape, assault and psychological abuse over the course of 10 years.
Former pals, colleagues and girlfriends of Landis claimed that the screenwriter curated a social setting that made it exceedingly tough for them to talk up in regards to the abuse and assault they allegedly confronted. Earlier members of Landis’ buddy group even likened the expertise to a being in a “cult” in an interview with the Day by day Beast.
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