Mad Max: Fury Road

[Darkly Dexter]

^ ditto

 

[shapeshifter]

no Mel = CRAP

no Mel = no murdered Hebrews and no sugar titted cops.
it could work.

Otherwise we get Mad max beyond the 3rd Reich.

 

[Rac]

Mel = rasict nut job = flop

Yeah, and you love every fcking human being in this world. And you've never been drunk shouting out things.

But he's also a racist drunk.

Ain't we all?

 

[tyler-durden]

No, I'm just a drunk.

 

[Shifty]

Mad Max Game for God of War II Director
Cory Barlog and veteran film director George Miller's first project together is official.
by Greg Miller
IGN 360

March 13, 2008 - A few days ago, we covered the ongoing exclusive Level Up -- Newsweek's videogame blog -- has landed with God of War II Director Cory Barlog. Throughout the week, N'Gai Croal has been posting interviews with Barlog and his new creative partner George Miller, the writer/director behind the Mad Max movies, Babe and a handful of other flicks. Although the interviews were interesting, neither was spilling the beans about what the duo was working on.

That's over with: Mad Max is coming back to videogames.

In a two-part interview with Level Up, Miller gives readers the info so far on the new Mad Max game -- melee weapons, projectile weapons and vehicles will be in there. The project is actually "inspired" by Mad Max Fury Road, a flick Miller had been gearing up to shoot in 2003 before the war in Iraq put the kibosh on it. Currently, Barlog and Miller are just in the planning phase of the videogame project.

"For many, many, many years--for as many years as I can remember, we've been asked to make games of the 'Mad Max' story," Miller told Level Up. "I mean, we've been approached by every major game company or developer virtually, asking 'Can we do a Mad Max game?' And to me, it always felt like what I used to call empty calorie action. Where you just -- the thing that you were alluding to before, which is just action for its own sake without anything underneath it."

For the full scoop, you can check out Croal's whole Miller interview and read all about what happened to Fury Road, how he got mixed up with Barlog and -- the saddest news of all -- why Mel Gibson won't be in the game.

From the Croal interview: instead of making a movie and rushing a video game to meet the film's release date, the video game is being worked on to catch up with the pre-production of MM4. Then both will be released at the same time with the same cast/story and hopefully the quality will be there for both.

 

[Hunter Rider]

George Miller set to oversee a new age of leather & asphalt & blood with a new ROAD WARRIOR?!?!


More MAD MAX 4 details!!!

 

[gwynplaine]

Gibson for Max Rockatansky. Accept no substitute.

(OK, maybe Bana because he is god.)

 

[Sava]

damn, Bana would be a great replacement

 

[Figs]

I could see Bana in the role.

I would prefer Mel but Bana would be a good replacement.

 

[Rac]

George Miller set to oversee a new age of leather & asphalt & blood with a new ROAD WARRIOR?!?!


More MAD MAX 4 details!!!

Hmm, so are they going to use the cars as models for the anime or is this going to be live action after all?

 

[Octoberist]

so is it live action now? If there's a new Max, then that kinda sucks. Why couldn't it be a new character set in the same universe?

To be honest, I don't know if Miller has it in him to make another one. I'm getting a George Romero vibe here, but I could be wrong.

 

[biolumen]

An Australian MP has heard that Silverton and Broken Hill were being looked at as shooting locations, but Geelong is actively petitioning for the production. Broken Hill is where Road Warrior was filmed. Still no official word from Miller about where he's taking this movie.

Local MP John Eren and Geelong city councillor Barbara Abley are leading the charge in the push for the movie to be shot in the Geelong region.

[snip]

Lara MP John Eren said he had heard Silverton and Broken Hill were being considered as potential locations, but he hoped Miller could be convinced to pick the Geelong region.

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2009/05/23/72565_news.html

 

[Polux]

Umm, yeah, I dunno if this has been mentioned, but I remember hearing rumours of Miller wanting Heath Ledger for Mad Max 4 (of course, way before he died), it´s a shame, I think that would´ve been great.

Polux

 

[biolumen]

Ledger was rumored for a part in the movie a year or so after pre-production was shut down just prior to the 2003 Namibia shoot, but it was never clear what role he would play. The 2003 version reportedly had Mel as Max and Robert Downey Jr. as a co-star. Now that movie I would have loved to have seen.

 

[Polux]

Mmmm....post-apocalyptic "Air America" ??? I´m in t: !!!

Polux

 

[biolumen]

Mad Max 4 is now listed in Production Weekly

http://www.productionweekly.com/

If anyone has access to this periodical, I'd appreciate it if they shared whatever the entry says about it, if anything.

 

[biolumen]

Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) is screen-testing for Mad Max 4, but for what part?

Q: What is next for you?

A: I'm off to Boston on Aug. 19 for a film Ben Affleck is directing called "The Town." It's based on the novel "Prince of Thieves" about a group of career bank robbers. One of the robbers falls in love with a girl we rob. So it's a great crime thriller and romance. It's a lot of fun.

I'm a robber. Ben will direct and star. It also has Rebecca Hall ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona"), Jon Hamm ("Mad Men"), and Blake Lively ("Gossip Girl") plays my sister.

I'm also fighting to do the new Mad Max film with George Miller. That might be next summer. I'm screen-testing and meeting George Miller.

http://www.modbee.com/featured/story/800003-p2.html

 

[Nivek]

You know, at this point it might be refreshing to see a reboot, but I always wanted to see Mel come back in a "King Conan"-ish final Film as Max. But Mel is a mess right now.

I have no issue with recasting the part, if they do it as a reboot.

 

[gwynplaine]

Renner would be cool. I'm still rooting for Bana though. That is if Mel doesn't return. I'd love to see an old Mad Max, kind of like "Unforgiven" but in the Mad Max universe. (come to think also kind of like what Millar is doing with the great "Old Man Logan".)

 

[biolumen]

Charlize Theron: Mad Maxine?

Today 12:58 PM PDT by Claudia Rosenbaum and Lindsay Miller

Charlize Theron is ready to go beyond Thunderdome. Mel Gibson, not so much.

Multiple sources tell E! News that the Oscar-winning babe is director George Miller's pick to play the lead female role in the upcoming, Mel-less Mad Max 4.

When announcing he was beginning work on the sequel back in 2007, Miller admitted Gibson was too old for the antihero role of "Mad" Max Rockatansky and "I don't think he would be interested in being involved at all."

Instead, Miller is looking at little-know Brit Tom Hardy, whose credits Black Hawk Down and Band of Brothers, to play opposite Theron.

However, the Mad Max revamp is a long way from fruition, and Miller is being very secretive about the roles and plot. Actors auditioning for the film have only been given a letter for their character's name. The studio has yet to sign off on Miller's choices, and no formal offers have been made.

A leather-clad Charlize kicking butt on the Outback? You'd think that's a no-brainer.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b150027_charlize_theron_mad_maxine.html

 

[Rac]

Tom Hardy is an excellent actor. Wouldn't mind seeing him as Max. I hope Jeremy Renner also lands a role in this, even if he auditioned for the part of Max. And Theron is just a plus.

I'm a little more positive about this now. Maybe you can do a Mad Max film without Mel...

 

[Octoberist]

I think Charlize should wear leather assless chaps, if you ask me!

 

[chamber-music]

I agree with Rac Tom Hardys a good actor.

 

[Van Petrol]

Tom Hardy as Max?!.....Ace's head is going to explode!

 

[dark_b]

Charlize looks to hot for this movie


hmmmmm why am i complaining?