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Mad Max 4: Fury Road Back in Production
October 25, 2007
Source: Moviehole.net
by Alex Billington
Thought the Mad Max trilogy with Mel Gibson was over? Guess again! A report from Moviehole.net claims that the fourth film, titled Mad Max 4: Fury Road, has gotten the greenlight to head back into production down in Australia. Apparently there has been talk of Mad Max 4 for quite some time, but director George Miller has a slate of other major projects in the works as well and just didn't have time to work on it. That's no longer the case and George Miller will now be working on this concurrently with the Justice League of America movie as well.
Considering that you really can't trust anything that comes from Moviehole.net, for now we're going to consider this just a rumor. Mad Max 4: Fury Road is based on a script from British comic book artist/writer Brendan McCarthy. Unfortunately Mel Gibson won't be back, but hopefully that will allow for a newer, fresher face to fulfill the role of Mad Max Rockatansky. Maybe someone like Paul Walker or Mike Vogel, or how about shaking things up - Rosario Dawson?
George Miller, who directed Happy Feet as well as the three original Mad Max films, is currently slated to also work on Happy Feet 2 and the Justice League movie. The rumor claims that while working on Mad Max 4 in Australia, Miller will also have his hand in both Happy Feet 2 and Justice League in some way. Sounds like this will be quite a feat juggling three massive movies all at the same time.
Are there still big fans of Mad Max out there? We already have Doomsday in the works, which seems like a modern Mad Max, do we really need another one? At least George Miller is back on it but that doesn't guarantee anything.
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Reader Feedback - 12 Comments »
1
Good to hear Mad Max will be back and Miller will be directing. While a few years ago I would have thought it a sin to think this, but I am glad Gibson won't be in it. I would not pay a dime to see anything that he is even loosely connected with. It's a shame because Gibson is so very talented, but when you say the things that he has said and you know how much he hates you because of your religion, why would you even think of giving him any money?
Anyways…….
Unlived on Oct 26, 2007
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Without Mel, there's no reason to bother filming. No Mel, No Max. Period.
Jim on Oct 26, 2007
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Mad Max without Mel Gibson is not Mad Max. No need to even think of filming it ! I would not pay a cent to see anything that is called Mad Max without Mel Gibson.
cd on Oct 27, 2007
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Agreed Mel is Max that sucks.
They are probably trying the 007 thing with multiple James Bonds, but it's not the same!
[KFH]ROY on Jan 6, 2008
5
Rosario Dawson makes me want to vomit. Especially when I think of Deathproof, everyone knows Zoe Ball was the star of that movie. If you were suggesting a female, why not suggest an Austrailian. Besides, there's only ONE true Captain Walker!
nghisus on Jan 6, 2008
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I am so very very diserpointed Mel Gibson wont be allowed to reprise his Mad Max character, Mel was in the trilogy, he IS MAD MAX, so he's a little older and a lot more wrinkly, even better as the character will have aged considerably too, No Mad Max with out Mel.
Shoo on Jan 9, 2008
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If Mad Max 4 is going to be the last in the Mad Max films I like many others think it should be Mel Gibson that ends the Mad Max legacy.
Mad Trev on Mar 26, 2008
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Mel Gibson is the biggest sell out in the world and I'm glad to hear that they are excluding him from this picture. For someone to call out an entire religion and blame them for him being a washed out actor is sickening. What Women Want sorry mel will never be the same badass actor he played in the 90s.
Mel Gibson F.A.G. on Apr 16, 2008
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He's better off not being in the film. As for his comments, that's the price we pay for living in a free society. The ad hominim argument is just as bad as Mel's comments.
Joe on Apr 29, 2008
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Mel gibson is MAD MAX.. If they use someone else it will FAIL. Different actor give they person a different name NOT MAX
glen on Jul 1, 2008
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everyone just calm down!
look in the mirror and ask yourself if you have ever said anything bad about your mother, teacher, friend, someone of another race! are you all that perfect?? he was drunk and he is fighting some demons in his head.. doesnt make him a bad person ok! what he said was blown way out of proportion also.. worse things have been said and done by others….
no mel in madmax! whats the point! ?? mel is max end of story!
chris on Aug 1, 2008
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Hugh Jackman will play the role, and while big Hugh's a decent actor, it obviously isn't gonna be the same without Gibson. Won't even be close.
There are preview clips on Youtube if you wanna check it out. Nothing too substantive but they offer a general idea of what to expect (crash, bang, boom).
Mel made that character so much his own that it's practically pointless for anybody else to try and play it. Russell Crowe couldn't pull it off. I mean can you imagine "The Good The Bad And The Ugly Revisited" with someone else playing Clint Eastwood's part? Ya don't mess with icons.
As for the "anti-Jewish" drunken rant bs, c'man, get real. Get over yourselves. Or get a life.
"My, I just can't imagine anyone having anything to do with him after that. It's just so politically incorrect. Why do you know he actually called a female law enforcement officer "Sugar T|ts?!" My, my, my, ain't it a shame, Nellie." Please. There was as much humor in that whole episode as "social sin", "moral deviancy", whatever ya care to call it, but the media chose to make him goat of the year and beat it into the ground when it was nothing but a high profile actor blabbering through a tequila fueled stupor. Drunk driving, absolutely, focus on that if you wanna criticize, but the other stuff? What a non story that was. There was nothing to it; man gets a load on, man gets arrested, man rants. What a huge, hairy deal, eh? Gee, my life wouldn't've been complete if I hadn't heard about that.
Personally, I'll take flesh and blood guys like Gibson and his "partner in crime" Downey Jr. any day over that zombie army of glamor-puss, cardboard, hypocritical hacks in Tinseltown. Plastic goofballs.
Suffering whatsername, the myopic, self righteous network bimbo, Sawyer, should've been penance enough. More than.
Excuse me, was that politically incorrect? Terribly, terribly sorry.
warcover on Sep 5, 2008