Mad Max: Fury Road

[jafter]

Mel Gibson To Play Mad Max Again
'Fury Road' Begins Shooting In May

POSTED: 4:06 p.m. EST December 10, 2002

Mel Gibson is getting "Mad" to the "Max" again.

According to the trade paper Variety, "Mad Max" star Mel Gibson has signed on to reprise his portrayal of the character in "Fury Road," the third sequel to the 1979 Australian cult hit.

Gibson previously played "Mad" Max Rockatansky in the "The Road Warrior" in 1982, and "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" in 1985.


"Fury Road" is budgeted at $104 million, Variety reported. George Miller, who wrote and directed the first three "Mad Max" films, will assume the duties again for the new film.

Gibson signed on to play Max again for a reported $25 million.

No plot details were released, with the exception that the setting again will be a lawless post-apocalyptic Australian outback. Filming is set to begin in Australia in May, and will be produced by studio 20th Century Fox, according to Variety.

Gibson, 46, won Oscars for directing and producing 1995's Best Picture Academy Award winner "Braveheart." He's also starred in four "Lethal Weapon" films opposite Danny Glover. Most recently, Gibson starred in the summer blockbuster thriller "Signs."
Copyright 2002 by NBC4.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.




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[Geppetto]

I grew up on these movies. They are some of the greatest guy movies of all time. I know a lot of people can't take Thunderdome but it still has that great combination of lots of speed and violence (and cars that look like all the worst fuck-ups in shop class built them) I know it makes me a fan boy but I can't wait. <P> <P>

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[Devils Advocate]

I love the Mad Max movies! That being said, though, I don't really trust Hollywood to do a third Mad Max without fucking it up beyond recognition... Oh well - we'll see, I guess...

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[Furtherman]

This sucks. I was looking forward to another Mad Max.

Mad Max' Sequel Appears Dead

Prospects of Mel Gibson returning to the screen in his Mad Max persona faded today (Tuesday) when Daily Variety reported that the actor is in talks with Warner Bros. to star in Under and Alone, about an ATF undercover agent who infiltrated a motorcycle gang. Gibson had originally intended to shoot Mad Max: Fury Road in the southern Africa country of Namibia in May but halted preproduction citing security concerns following the outbreak of war with Iraq. Production offices in Swakopmund were shut down, dozens of contracts and leases for homes, apartments, car rentals, and caterers were canceled, and sets built for the $100-million movie were warehoused. Gibson later plunged into post-production of his biblical film The Passion, seemingly snuffing out the fire on the back burner, where the Mad Max feature had been placed. It had been reported earlier that Gibson decided to shoot the film in Namibia because George Lucas had booked all available studio space at Fox Studios in Australia to shoot Star Wars: Episode 3. Lucas completed principal production there last week.

[neoprosto]

Mel Gibson is highly overrated. And the blue contact lenses don't fool anyone, Mel.

His overratedness reminds me of Ted Danson's overratedness - all accomplished with less actual hair than a baby seal!

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[furie]

Mad Max IV: Approaching Overkill


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[Furtherman]

Mad Max Goes Down Fury Road

There's been a lot of movement on the Mad Max 4 front in the last few days, including confirmation of the movie's title, a date being given for production beginning, and director George Miller talking to reporters about the project.

The Hollywood Reporter reported on the official announcement that the movie - to be called Fury Road - will be shot in Sydney and New South Wales next year, with a budget in the region of $100 million. In a television interview with reporters, director George Miller showed off the in-progress creation of the movie's vehicles, and talked about his aim for the movie:

We're trying to do stuff that I believe people haven't done before... We want to nudge the genre a little bit. The world has changed since then, it's been thirty years since we made the original ones and the world has changed since then, cinema has changed since then, and action movies have changed since then, so we're really trying to figure out the best way that we can really lift the bar a little bit.

He was a bit more tightlipped when it came to rumors of casting, however, saying "I'm still in the middle of casting, despite the stuff that's been on the net... No decision has been made yet." So maybe rumored stars Charlize Theron and Sam Worthington still have a chance.

Also rumored that Tom Hardy may be taking over the role of Max. He was in Black Hawk Down and played Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis.

[pennington]

I have worries there will be tons of computer generated mayhem. This has train-wreck written all over it.

[Contra]

Gibson not availible?

[King Imp]

I hope he decides to name one of the characters "Sugar Tits".

[tanless1]

Not for 100mil. Gibson gets 25mil theron is far from cheap...

[JimBeam]

I had initially heard rumors about this sequel a few years back and at the time Gibson was supposed to be in it with Heath Ledger.

They were supposedly going to shout in Tunisia or something like that but it was around the time that the war had just gotten under way and the concerns for safety prevented them from beginning it.

I'd love to see it but I do have some worries about Hollywood trying to make it trendy.

I watched the opening 10 minutes of The Road Warrior the other day and also caught some of the climax of Thunderdome.

Great movies even if Mad Max is very slow at times.

[Furtherman]

Patrick Stewart has hinted at a possible appearance in the forthcoming Mad Max sequel. (http://www.totalfilm.com/news/patrick-stewart-to-star-in-mad-max-4?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+totalfilm%2Fimdbnews+%28Total +Film+IMDb+aggregate%29)

Stewart as a bad guy would be fantastic. He hasn't had a high profile gig like that (and Conspiracy Theory doesn't count).

[hedges]

Hopefullly this this movie will happen, and I'd rather see Mel play Max than some other actor. I think at 54 he can handle it.

[Slumbag]

Hopefullly this this movie will happen, and I'd rather see Mel play Max than some other actor. I think at 54 he can handle it.

I think Tom Hardy is signed on to play Max.
I fucking love Tom Hardy, so that would actually make me want to see this more.
He gave one of the best performances ever last year in Bronson
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[hedges]

Bronson looks like an interesting flick I will have to catch. Is that movie biographical or semi-biographical?

[Slumbag]

Bronson looks like an interesting flick I will have to catch. Is that movie biographical or semi-biographical?

It was my favorite movie of 2009. I'd call it semi autobiographical.

But the dude does anger really well.

[Furtherman]

Remember the other day when we wrote about how Tom Hardy still didn’t know when the long gestating Mad Max: Fury Road would begin filming? Apparently Charlize Theron does. Talking with MTV, the star revealed that production is scheduled to begin June 2nd. It’s about damn time.


Mad Max Back On Track (http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/charlize-theron-reveals-mad-max-fury-road-start-date.html)