Mad Max is on the Move
Quick quiz – what’s the greatest post apocalyptic car chase and fetish clothing movie? Nope, not Driving Miss Daisy, but you were close. The Road Warrior took the eponymous character Mad Max from the first film and deposited him in an Aussie wasteland for where, aside from an abundance of leather chaps, resources are scarce and even dingos had to go without babies to eat. Following George Miller’s ode to mayhem was the truly weird Thunderdome flick which had far too few cars, and way too much Mel Gibson acting.
The good news is that there will be a new chapter in the Mad Max saga, the better news is that Tom Hardy (yumm-o!) will be filling in as the lead, Gibson apparently being too old and batshitcrazypants. Mad Max: Fury Road was planned to shoot in the Australian outback which, Paul Hogan’s promotion be damned, already looks like the shit’s gone down.
Unfortunately for Miller and his crew, unseasonable rainfall has left the locale awash not in end of the world detritus but wild flowers and whatever sort of unbearably cute fauna they have over there. That means the shoot has had to go on the road, and has ended up in South Africa, where, at Port Kembla, a few of the movie’s REAL stars war caught undisguised.
The movie trucks, from what we can see, look as Frankensteinian as anything from the past flicks, although they do all have a common color scheme that makes it seem that someone has turned up a drum of flat black and is making good money as the post apocalyptic Earl Scheib. There’s no clue as to who is driving what, but rumor has it that there will be an iconic Interceptor on hand.
Principle filming is supposed to commence in April, which means you can probably expect Fury Road to hit the cineplexes sometime in 2013.
Images and info from: [TheAge.au]
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Dude, Eric Bana should be Mad Max.
GREAT!!!!
I've wanted another installment of this series, preferably one which covers between the first and second movies. I could go with a pre-lame-ass Dome one, too.
I had to look up this Tom guy. Shoulda been Eric Bana, IMO. He could do his own driving.
NO, NO, NO!
There should have never been a third one, and there certainly should not be a fourth one.
"And the Road Warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now only in my memories."
How the HELL do you tack more on after what is very possibly the very most fitting ending in the history of film — no, storytelling?
Right on. We don't need another hero.
What always got me is that Bruce Spence's character, the Gyrocaptain, was the tribe's leader as they left the wasteland and suddenly he is back in the wasteland living in the ground and flying a Transavia crop duster. If he was playing a different character then why? It is confusing to have one actor playing two such similar characters in two related films.
Among the legion of my mostly-crazy ex-cowokers, one of them expounded (for a very long time) on how he thought the plot for this should work. The hero was to be the kid from The Road Warrior, and the plot had something to do with the tribe of kids from Thunderdome. I couldn't remember what happened with them, and he didn't explain it very well. I'm pretty sure he was high.
The bits I understood sounded really good though.
DALE? DALE FROM EV. I AM TYPING VERY LOUDLY, CAN YOU HEAR ME? PLEASE COME AND EXPLAIN YOUR MAD MAX 4 PLOT TO THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE I FORGET HOW IT GOES.
Too bad we will never see them on the silver screen because of the Mayan Pock-eclipse.
Matte black will always be the new black.
Anybody remember a certain unnamed Jalopy themed website, once tinged with flashes of genius but now faded into obscurity? It devoted many screen inches to Death Race (which wasn't very good, despite a heavily armed XJS). The prequel released in 2010 went straight to DVD. I'll be hugely suprised if a new Mad Max can do anything that hasn't been done before many, many times, much, much better.
I miss when Hollywood would steal its ideas from books and foreign films, or at least other movie franchises. Nowadays if any movie has even a moderate amount of success you are treated to 2-7 reiterations of the same thing, even if you have to pull it out of retirement and swap it's cane for a brown fedora and a whip.
On the upside, it's still George Miller, so it's not some douche nobody cares about trying to revive the series (see Death Race and one Mr. Paul W.S. Anderson). On the downside, George Miller was last seen making wacky penguin movies.
"I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max"
I was thinking Hugh Jackman would take over for batshitcrazypants, oh well lets hope this pretty boy can pull it off.
Speed Racer such a bad retro car move we are due for a good one.
This is Miller's baby and he does know how to tell a story. Maybe it will be like the first 4 Star Trek movies the even numbered movies are the ones to watch.
Just a quick note, Port Kembla is in Australia, not South Africa. It's 10 minutes away from where I am at work now. (Wollongong, just south of Sydney).
I don't give a shit. The Mad Max series are some of my favorite movies. Hell, I love Tina Turner in the last one, "Break a deal, face the Wheel!" The fact that Bartertown ran on pigshit is something that should be meditated upon and debated. Hell, I wish I was one of the guys who got to get mental and create more Mad Max suicidal type vehicles like these. Hey, I live in the desert and can relate to this kind of thing.