Mad Max: Fury Road

[dark_b]

will it be realesed 2011?

 

[biolumen]

I haven't kept up with this once since last year,I loved both Mad Max's But I thought this one was just a possibility and had no idea it was filming!!,So.....Is this a sequel with Gibson(I sure hope so)/new actor replacing him/spin-off or re-imagining(could have potential)????

As it stands, it's a reimagining of the Mad Max universe with Tom Hardy playing Max. There are rumors that Mel might be involved in some way, but beyond that, one can only speculate.

The original interceptor will return. This is a picture of the one that was actually built for the movie they were going to make with Mel back in 2003. They're still using this same car, apparently.

But I've heard the so-called 'hero car' is actually a highly modified '59 Cadillac. A sketch of the vehicle was put together based on what someone saw of it.

And someone actually got a picture of this beast as it sat on a flatbed truck at a truck stop on its way to Broken Hill last year.

 

[TX85]

Thanx for the info,I appreciate it!!

 

[biolumen]

Someone grabbed photos of some Fury Road vehicles on their way back to Sydney from Broken Hill. The trucker told the guy who took the pictures that they were destined for South Africa.

Also, Tom Hardy told The Daily Beast a few days ago that...

training for [Fury Road] starts in March, and it will be shot in Namibia.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-rises-michael-fassbender-and-drug-abuse.html

 

[Hunter Rider]

George Miller Offers Mad Max: Fury Road Update

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[Call Me Darkman]

That wasn't much of an update - just the usual stuff he's been saying for almost a decade now. It really is amazing how long it has taken to get this film made.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Yeah, I get the feeling we will never see this movie the way things are going, and thats not a bad thing to me, seeing someone else playing MM, even if its someone as awesome as Tom, just doesnt feel right to me.

 

[biolumen]

Exclusive: George Miller Says New ‘Mad Max 4’ Movie Essentially Same Story As Aborted ‘Max’ Film In 2003; Talks Tom Hardy As Rebooted Mel Gibson Character

BY TODD GILCHRIST | NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For the better part of the past two decades, George Miller has made films that veered sharply away from his earliest triumphs, opting for decidedly more family-friendly fare like “Babe: Pig in the City” and “Happy Feet” than the unforgiving adventures of the “Mad Max” series. But next year, Miller returns to that franchise with the tentatively titled “Fury Road,” and even though production was aborted back in 2003 and then pushed back several times since the project was first re-announced in 2009, Miller told The Playlist that their completion at Warner Brothers is as inevitable as their conception was in his head.

“When you actually work on a film, they do invade you,” Miller said Thursday morning via a telephone interview about his new film, “Happy Feet 2.” “The characters, they’re like imaginary characters in your head and they’re sort of part of your family in a strange way. So like family, they keep on intruding.”

Miller first attempted to resuscitate the franchise in 2003, and he confirmed the longtime rumor that Heath Ledger was set to star alongside Mel Gibson. That version was to begin shooting in Namibia, but in late February 2003 with the prospect of the impending Iraq invasion ahead 20th Century Fox postponed the production, and it lead to its eventual death.

But even then, he’d been turning over the idea of new films in his head for several years beforehand. “14 years ago, I remember the moment when I was walking across a street, a crossing,” he explained. “While I was in the middle of the road, I got this sudden flash of a story, and by the time I got across the street, I realized, oh my God – that’s a ‘Mad Max’ movie! It was the core idea.” Nevertheless, he insisted that he was reluctant at first to revisit that world after making three films about it early in his career. “The last thing I ever wanted to do was a ‘Mad Max’ movie, so I pushed it away.”

Nevertheless, “Mad Max” continued to occupy his thoughts, and before long, a more detailed story emerged. “Four years after that [in 2001], I was catching a long plane ride back from Los Angeles to Sydney, through the night, and I was in that hypnologic state between sleep and wakefulness, and the movie, a version of that movie, played out in my head – not fully formed, but very distinct,” he said. “So I thought, ‘Oh, here we go,’ and of its own bidding really; I didn’t intend to think about it. And then that just kept on happening, and suddenly you realize that you’re going to make another one.”

Of course, Miller isn’t the only well-known auteur to return to the material that helped make his name; Ridley Scott is nearing completion on “Prometheus,” a prequel to his 1979 film, and planning a follow-up to “Blade Runner.” Miller suggested that part of the reason he and others are taking on these projects from their past is that their cache among audiences makes them easier to get produced. “I think the way the business is now, sort of tentpole movies do require an already built-in audience,” he observed. “Films based on well-known properties, whether they’re television, really epically-selling novels or books or remake of old movies or sequels, it’s just become a staple of the business, because it’s a very, very tough business, and hard to get anybody to pay attention because there’s so much out there.”

Simultaneously, he said that it mostly comes down to spending so much time with your own material that it eventually infiltrates how you see other material. “The world and the characters just live with you,” he said. “They’re a prism through which you view the world, so you almost don’t have a choice in the matter – they definitely creep up on you. Certainly that was the case with a new ‘Mad Max’ and ‘Happy Feet’.”

With so many failed starts on a new “Mad Max” installment and filming set to start in early 2012, one would imagine that the narrative has changed dramatically. But Miller said that while it’s grown somewhat, it’s essentially much the same film he wanted to shoot in 2003. “Obviously I’ve worked on [the script] since, and we’ve got the whole movie designed – we’ve got 150 big vehicles built – and the world has evolved. I hope I’ve evolved, and I hope the movie’s evolved. But it’s pretty similar; at its core, it’s not that different.”

One thing that Miller said was absolutely the same was Mad Max, the character who was being rebooted, albeit primarily via Hardy’s performance rather than a ground-up reinvention via screenwriting. “He’s a rebooted Mad Max, but it’s a new interpretation.” Miller revealed. “We made it very clear from the outset that it would be crazy to try to impersonate what Mel had done, but Tom [like] Mel and Heath Ledger; these guys all have very similar kind of maleness, I find. I don’t know, they somehow remind me of big cats – they’re mesmerizing to look and be with, but you don’t know what they’re going to do at any moment.”

“There’s kind of a lot of stuff boiling underneath, and that makes them extremely interesting to watch,” he observed. “And also, Tom is an astonishingly good actor.”

Miller also confirmed that previously announced cast members Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult are still set to appear in the film, despite the production delays. Meanwhile, he said he thinks that the wait has made the film now more relevant than ever: “what’s a little weird is that the world unfortunately is heading in the direction of Mad Max a little bit more rapidly than I would have liked,” he said.

“It’s a rigorously vetted film; I mean, the whole film has been prepared, storyboarded and so on. I’m surprised how little has changed [in the script] in that time. But these films aren’t really speculating about a future, they’re westerns in the same way that westerns would kind of morality plays, figures in the landscape, and you’re able to somehow reduce this human behavior to its most elemental. So now, it’s very clear to see the story in there where perhaps the modern world is a little bit too cluttered – it’s a bit hard to see the signals amongst the noise.”

“Happy Feet 2” arrives in theaters nationwide on November 18, 2011. More from this interview soon.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...ks-tom-hardy-as-rebooted-mel-gibson-character

 

[Octoberist]

I jus want to see Charleze wearing assless chaps. That's all!

 

[biolumen]

The vehicles shipped to Africa last week.

Road warriors thunder off to African backdrop

Ben Langford
January 10, 2012

Transported in secret and hidden in shipping containers, they are the crash-scene fodder of a much-awaited Australian film sequel - to be shot in Africa.

The collection of off-road buggies and menacing road-trains left Port Kembla near Wollongong last week, bound for a new attempt at shooting George Miller's Mad Max 4: Fury Road in Namibia.

Attempts at filming in Broken Hill in September 2010 were thwarted after rain turned the desert green, ruining the required post-apocalyptic setting.

The film will now be shot against the African backdrop in April with a budget of up to $200 million using an Australian crew, it has been reported.

There was tight security around the vehicles while they were in storage. Those involved in their storage had to sign confidentiality agreements. But the Herald was able to gain a sneak peek at some of the trucks and buggies before they were shipped out.

Also in the collection are several of Max's pursuit vehicles, suspected to closely resemble the ''Interceptor'', a juiced-up Ford XB GT Falcon coupe driven in the original movie.

The number of these vehicles suggests Max's car may again meet a fiery end, as it did in Mad Max 2: Road Warrior.

The Herald understands they left Port Kembla last week bound for South Africa. The departure of the vehicles is confirmation that the film has been lost to Australia.

The star of the first three Mad Max films, Mel Gibson, has been replaced by Tom Hardy for Fury Road, but there is some speculation Gibson may return from Hollywood exile for a cameo role.

Hardy's co-stars are Charlize Theron and Hugh Keays-Byrne.

Mad Max fan sites are prone to describing the Interceptor as Australia's most famous car: it is considered as renowned as famed film conveyances the Batmobile, Bond vehicles, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Thomas Magnum's Ferrari and Herbie.

 

[echostation]

Will tom BAne Mad Max hardy try to hard in someone? I really hope he muscles in on someone using the new found physique he built on Batman... break batman, break bones in Mad Max... will he survive?

 

[obin_gam]

those tyres

 

[matrix_ghost]

200 million budget ?
Are we talking US or aussie currency ?
Cause that seems like an awful lot of money . Espcially with the news that WB is lowering the budget of some of their movies .

 

[obin_gam]

200 million budget ?
Are we talking US or aussie currency ?
Cause that seems like an awful lot of money . Espcially with the news that WB is lowering the budget of some of their movies .

They're lowering the budgets for other movies and giving that money to the Fury Road production

 

[dark_b]

after Happy Feet bombed they are giving so much money to Miller? interesting

 

[matrix_ghost]

after Happy Feet bombed they are giving so much money to Miller? interesting

Mad MAx is basically ready to start shooting. Everything is done.
Script , sets...well what needs to be built. Even the actors are ready.The movie was already budgeted before Happy Feet.
WB can't afford any delays anymore.

 

[dark_b]

how can the actors be ready when they dont have the exact date when they start filming?

 

[biolumen]

It would appear Hardy leaves for Namibia next week.

I'm off to Siberia next week.......for a year

@ 1:10 of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiRlvhjfI_Y

Filming starts in April and Hardy has already said....

Shooting is probably nine months. Training is allocated as two months.

http://collider.com/tom-hardy-inter...hooting-schedule-filming-george-miller/34478/

So the timing seems to be right.

 

[Call Me Darkman]

It's about time.

 

[biolumen]

@colliderfrosty
Steven Weintraub

Just talked to Tom Hardy. He's starting to grow a large beard and he's very thin. It's for MAD MAX. Said he films that next in W. Africa.

http://***********/#!/colliderfrosty/status/165560212839870464

 

[obin_gam]

I hope Hardys Max will have a long full beard for the entire movie! Not many action people nowadays has that.

 

[dark_b]

i agree. a full beard would be a good change.

 

[biolumen]

Article dated Feb 27 from the Afrikaan language Republikein (via Google translation)

02/27/2012

Monster Wheels for Max's racetrack

"Every day a woman came over with a bucket and a bowl. Got the day a little something in the back pocket to buy it. Or a few of us make a charge, buy wetland waste operations at a nearby slaughter house and the previous day's old Brötchen at major retailers around the corner. So we are waiting."

This sounds like an alternative script for the movie Mad Max 4 until after the winter in the Namib, in particular Dorobpark, will be filmed. The story by dozens of people in line for the old municipal building of Swakopmund sketched. Some of them have been waiting longer than two weeks. It just a temporary lifting for the fliekmakers get.

They tell almost all the job seekers an eye to the transport component of the Mad Max 4. Some of them have their own trucks, minibuses and other vehicles that they want to hire. Others again have licenses for the transport of normal cars, but even heavy cargo carriers. "We have the papers," one claimed.

In the same breath, there is also a favoritism by the employer hinted. So there is no such order in the ranks of hopeful candidates. From inside the building, the voice who stood next word to be. From the people who are called, are way down in the back row, one man said that these days has a turn wait.

About ablutions are claiming a "small cubicle" is for the rystaners on the premises of the old municipal building constructed. Almost across the board is denying that they are waiting as byspelers be taken up. "No, extras turn comes later. Then you see the crowd. What you see here is nothing."

About the woman with the bucket and the bucket was told that she cooked potatoes with a sauce and vetkoek the people in line sale. The bucket is again a traditional cocktail of fruit and milk. "Not Tombo not."

An allegation that Mad Max 4 basically at three locations to be filmed, was greeted with fierce denials. It's not just the environment of Cape Cross, Goanikontes and behind the dune bank between Swakopmund and Walvis Bay not. "It's rather 18 different places," a woman said. "Do you think the film quite a racetrack in the desert to build the scenes filmed?"

Then they wait on.

The gist of the article, I guess, is that the people waiting in line outside the production offices are looking for work behind the scenes, mainly transportation and such. "Extras come later". Also, it's mentioned by someone (who?) that filming will take place in "18 different places". I'm not sure what else to make of the article.

http://www.republikein.com.na/politiek-en-nasionale/algemeen/monsterwiele-vir-max-se-renbaan.143513.php

 

[biolumen]

A couple of movie vehicles were seen in transit on the road up to Cape Cross, Namibia (presumably their destination). These pictures were taken at a railroad crossing by a bystander.

http://www.republikein.com.na/politiek-en-nasionale/algemeen/mal-rygoed-in-die-woestyn.143786.php

 

[Punisher Rising]

I've never seen the first or third MM movies, but I did see The Road Warrior a few years back and remember really liking it. A lot of people seem to cite it as the best of the series.