Mad Max: Fury Road

[JokerLedger]

Dudes... honestly... After Bronson, Tom Hardy is finally getting his spotlight. Tom Hardy and Sam Worthington are two actors that I strongly believe will be household names. Worthington is almost there already.

 

[Symbiotic]

So is this a reboot or a sequel?

 

[Octoberist]

sequel!

 

[san15]

I love the Mad Max movies, but without Mel Gibson on board will older fans buy a ticket to watch a new actor take his place. I’m sure the younger generation of moviegoers who aren’t familiar with the series will probably care less. The majority of the fan base are from the older audiences and Gibson needs to reprise his iconic role.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I'm not a big fan of Mel Gibson, especially after all of his english bashing movies, but, he is essential to the Mad Max movies, which I love. Him not coming back simply doesnt fill me with a need to see this movie at it just wont be the same.

 

[cerealkiller182]

I heard Tom Hardy is officially up for the "male lead" which everyone assumes is Max, but theres a possibility he isnt. He would be the second best choice for Mad Max after Mel, but I kinda hope he plays the boomerrang kid from Road Warrior all grown up looking for Max.

 

[Octoberist]

i have a feeling that might be the plot, and the Feral Kid (Boomerrang kid) takes his name during his search..

 

[cerealkiller182]

In all honesty, I think that would be more interesting than another Max story.....at least at this point

 

[Rac]

Dunno if they're still going with the clone story...

 

[cerealkiller182]

Never new clones were ever involved. rather not see that at all

 

[Lord Blackbolt]

Weren't they gonna do a movie set many years after Max died and it would have Max's son as the new lead....At least that was when Heath Ledger was rumored

 

[Octoberist]

either way, Tom Hardy has a bad ass deep voice. very Mad Maxish.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Never seen Hardy in anything...or have I? Dunno.

Whoever it is, I'd like to have an Austrailian accent. Just cause.

Clones...sounds out of the realm of the wasteland. People have a hard enough time getting clean water, clones sounds a bit out of they're grasp.

Max's son...would probably kinda interesting. Either way the lead character will probably need to take the name.

 

[Paroxysm]

Tom Hardy is awesome, he's an amazing actor with lots of range. I'd say his best movie so far would be Bronson. That was a really wicked movie. He also played Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis.

Tom Hardy

Praetor Shinzon

Bronson

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I do recognise, and heard he was good in Bronson, but really, we need Mel back for this. DH4 didnt re-cast Willis, Rambo 4 didnt re-cast Stallone, even in Terminator 4, when the t-800 was re-cast, they at least put Arnie's head on top, this just has to be Mel for me.

 

[daywalker2007]

Tom Hardy is awesome, he's an amazing actor with lots of range. I'd say his best movie so far would be Bronson. That was a really wicked movie. He also played Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis.

Tom Hardy

Praetor Shinzon

Bronson

holy crap!
i can't believe thats the same guy from Trek!
i couldn't even recognise him in Bronson.

this guy does have the talent though!

 

[X-Woman]

Tom Hardy does have a lot of range. Another role he played was Heathcliff, in a PBS TV version of Wuthering Heights. It was a kind of stuffy production of a classic British novel, but he was really intense. I think he would be a great Mad Max, and I'm one of those people who remembers Mel Gibson from the original movies. Mel is one of my favorite actors, too. But I do see Tom as a worthy successor to Mel's Mad Max role. I think he would really do it justice.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I love Tom Hardy, he is a genuinely brilliant young actor and I think he'd be a wicked Mad Max...a younger version though. So if he plays Max it must be a reboot. Which would be cool as long as it's top quality not a tacky cash in.

But a sequel with an old, grizzled Mel Gibson would be soooo sick. And that could still be a possibility because Hardy could be a villain. He's great at playing villains.

I think Hardy was at his best in Bronson most definitely. That performance is so out there and all over the shop. It's brilliant. Seriously I think what he did for Bronson should get as much praise as Ledger. Hardy became Charlie Bronson. He put on 3 stone of pure muscle doing 1000 push ups a day!

So I think he would get an Aussie accent down pat if he was playing Max.

Also check out The Take from Sky One. He was a psycho in that, insane performance.

 

[biolumen]

IMDb is now listing Gibson's Icon Productions as co-producing the movie. Beyond the obvious, I wonder what that might mean, if anything.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/companycredits

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

IMDB isn't the most reliable site.

 

[biolumen]

Granted, which is why the info needs to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. Still, the fact that IMDb administrators chose to publish the information is intriguing.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

They'll run with anything. Their IMDB Pro section had Mark Millar listed as a writer on the next Superman movie for awhile. Needless to say, that was never happening. Ever.

 

[biolumen]

They'll run with anything.

My experience (along with those of some friends) has been that they scrutinize submittals and mostly post info only when it's corroborated by other submitters or by the media (and even then, they sometimes don't). On the whole, I've found IMDb to be far more right than wrong. The Millar bit you mentioned just shows that they can be wrong at times, so until this Icon Productions info is confirmed elsewhere, it remains suspect.

 

[Speedball]

Tom Hardy is awesome, he's an amazing actor with lots of range. I'd say his best movie so far would be Bronson. That was a really wicked movie. He also played Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis.

Bronson

WHOA!!! WHOA!!! WHOA!!!
The muscles on his shoulders are as big as him as Shinzon. Jesus!!! How did he do that?!
I'm perfectly fine with him as Max, or as one of the kids from Thunderdome taking his name.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Hardy is a much better choice then Sam Worthington. With Inception and this, the sky's the limit for him. Nice to see him get a major role such as this.