Celebrity Justice
Landis to Jacko -- This Time It's Personal

John Landis & Michael JacksonJohn Landis has filed legal papers against Michael Jackson, claiming Jacko had no right to negotiate a deal to make a Broadway musical of "Thriller," without his consent.

Landis wrote and directed the "Thriller" video and documentary back in 1983. Reports surfaced recently that Jackson cut a deal with the Nederlander Organization wherein Jackson made a deal in excess of $400,000 for the musical. But Landis claims Jacko can't cut a deal without his consent.

Landis, through his lawyer, Miles Feldman, is asking a L.A. County Superior Court judge for a declaration that Jackson can't make the deal without his sign off.

Earlier this month the company that hired Landis to write and direct the video claims it hasn't received its 50% cut in "Thriller" profits for more than four years.

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1. Do you think these two were ever lovers?

Posted at 7:25PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Jean Summers--slim, trim and can still fit in my high school cheerleader uniform (I was squad captain)

2. Don't mess with Jacko, he hasn't a lot of time left to live.

Posted at 7:28PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Big Mo

3. Landis (god forgive me) looks developmentally delayed...

I heard that he and Michael were VERY close at one point and now it is like a perpetual catfight

Posted at 7:30PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Toby Cameron

4. My daughter Lynn is a figure skater... a few years Michael jackson was at a rink with two of his children. The three of them watched Lynn skate and cheered her efforts...any how after skating Michael took us to lunch and later mailed Lynn a beautiful charm bracelet from Tiffany.

I also ran into John Landis buying some sanitary products at a Ralphs in San Royale.....

Posted at 7:39PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Frank Griffin

5. he should Be IN JAIL.HE is a TYPE A--hole.Remember Vic MORROW.

Posted at 7:50PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Dave

6. ...looks like John Landis gave up on the Diet Cokes. Remember, he always had one in his hand while making of Thriller?

Posted at 8:20PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Allen

7. Is Michael Jackson still alive? .. Has he molested anyone lately?
Has he recorderd anyting lately?

Has he completed the Katrina victims song yet?

He is a turd.
A bankrupt turd.

Posted at 8:25PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Prince VonAHole FanClub

8. Jackson starts using his biggest hit with a MTV video, because he needs the cash. Tap out every last penny in the Thriller formula, and Landis comes tumbling after. As a result, nobody wins. The cash runs out, and nobody want that 80's show to save Michael Jackson former fame.

Michael has a lawsuit hanging on him again, and will be an untouchable with future directors, spiraling further into debt with no light at the end of the tunnel.

I guess Michael will end up committing suicide when all the gigs dry up and revived as a child predator pedifier. – MTV promises of the early 1980’s turned out to be the future that never was.

Posted at 8:50PM on Jan 28th 2009 by pie

9. pal....dont mess with John Landis...a very talented & powerfull man....from "animal house'' to "the blues brothers" & many more clasic flick'z were all done by Landis the child molester will lose this one!!!Wow,what a great police chase with a u-haul we just had here in LA....2 + hour'z of thrill'z........................

Posted at 8:52PM on Jan 28th 2009 by 99centz

10. what the hell is with the timing of this?

A little late, DON'T YA THINK???!!!

Posted at 9:10PM on Jan 28th 2009 by steve

11. The jew/black connection being broken down in a courtroom? Could this REALLY be happening? Yup!

Posted at 9:55PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Reality

12. Typical of guys like John Landis. Typical if you know what I mean. Oye vey, I shouldn't make a dollar off of this??

Posted at 9:56PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Typical

13. And the money lenders never let go of a penny. Destroy the country if they have to. BANKERS are all alike even if they call themselves "Directors." They'd screw anyone for a penny. Anyone. They do it all the time.

Posted at 10:17PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Goy

14. i really don't feel sorry for michael jackson. i believe he is a child molester and basket case. he's also stolen other people's materials (songs) and said that it were his own; so if you ask me it's just karma coming back to bite him in the ass. he also owes alot of money to people whom he borrowed money from and haven't paid back. he even stole the "moonwalk" dance from another artist who was performing it way before michael jackson started doing it. so in other words michael jackson is a cheat and a liar. and if he's buying anyone bracelets, jewelry, etc., then it's probably with someone else's money!!!

Posted at 10:36PM on Jan 28th 2009 by lesley

15. Memo to John Landis:

I owe you a cut from 'The Twilight Zone'.

Sincerely,
Vic Morrow's Ghost

Posted at 10:58PM on Jan 28th 2009 by Vic Morrows' Ghost

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