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Charlize Theron And Tom Hardy To Star In MAD MAX: FURY ROAD!!
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Charlize Theron, star of such future-set sci-fi epics as “Aeon Flux” and “The Road,” will star opposite Tom Hardy (“Star Trek: Nemesis,” “RocknRolla”) in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” according to Friday morning’s Hollywood trade papers.
Does Hardy play the title character? Does Theron? From the Variety:
[Writer-director George] Miller had announced last weekend that pre-production work was starting in New South Wales but he didn't give any indication as to whether Mel Gibson might return or who would play the male lead. "It could be Mel, it could be anyone," he told reporters.
The Hollywood Reporter's story on the matter indicates that Hardy replaces Gibson as Max.
The Reporter also indicates the sequel takes place not long after the events of 1985's "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome."
Filming is slated to begin in August, which is a long time from now. Gibson-free or not, I’m trying to contain my excitement, and failing really miserably!
I love all the Miller-Gibson collaborations, but I'd choose a Gibson-free Miller "Max" over a Miller-free Gibson "Max" every time.
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and will she be naked is all that matters...
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Ya hear me?
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The title just changed! Is Mel no longer an option?!
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Why did you take that out? Do you want people to click on the story thinking Tom Hardy has been cast as Mad Max? Is that it? Yeah... I bet it is, isn't it.
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I don't care how old, or how bat shit crazy Mel Gibson has become--I've no interest in seeing Mad Max "re-imagined" with someone else playing the lead.
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Oct 29, 2009 9:36:40 PM CDT
Vader - he took it out cause it's going around the industry...
by juansanchez
that Hardy is Max.
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I'm sorry, what..?
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sounds cool to me. mel gibson is an old ass man. he should stay behind the camera.
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Where's AICN with fresh stories? Consistently late to JoBlo...
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This all seems to be very mysterious, nobody is coming out and saying Hardy IS Max, so maybe it's going to be Gibson, with Hardy as his son or sidekick.
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Drop "Mad Max" from the title and set it in the same universe.
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He knows how to take a punishment.
Hell, i just rewatched Payback the other day. good one. i love Coburn in that movie too..."That's just mean, man...mean!" -
Source:The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
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Fury Road needs that blonde in Tales of Ancient Empire.
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C'mon Herc, Nemesis wasn't that bad.
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has anyone watched the end of Road Warrior? Hardy is the new leader (Boomerang Kid) 20 years later and has to save Max - Gibson makes an appearance in the third act. Theron is the baddie - a read the script, don't want to say anymore but what I'm telling you won't be a spoiler soon.
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He sure did bulk up since Star Trek Nemesis or were his Romulan duds hiding his embiggenedness.
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THE PHANTOM MENACE. KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. GODFATHER, PART III. Any director returning to a series/franchise he started is DOOMED to failure. (This means you, too, Ridley Scott.) Miller's FURY ROAD will be awful, folks... AWFUL. You know it in your heart of hearts.
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Charlize is hot as fuck, though. But I stand by my above statement.
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...that's all I've got to say.Good night.Fuck.
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...fine, I'll let them string me along a little longer.
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http://tinyurl.com/yhd9moe
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instead of post production editing of a B movie.
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Just a feeling i've got. He will be the bad guy in the film and a significent role. Yet NOT MAX.
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We know he can still drive fast. Who cares how old Gibson is. INDY 4 was a big hit so no reason not to think MAX 4 won't burn up the box office too. But if Mel is not Max I'll be Redboxing the film. After 3 films I can't picture him not playing the role of Max.
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No need for Mel. I wasn't looking forward to this film. Moriarty changed my mind big time.
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yes, dork, I'm sure you read the script and it referred to the "boomerang kid", not the feral kid. Gooday mate, I'm the boomerang kid. That's not a boomerang, THAT'S a boomerang. "whatisit77" Australian for douche.
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Retire, and end it with the character you started with. People would eat that shit up.
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Without him, people are ready to hate this movie. Don't give them a reason to hate this movie.
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Please. Just. DO. IT.
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Judging by what we now know to be true...A) Charlize & Tom have been cast. B)Miller has said the lead hasn't been cast. So that means Charlize & Tom are playing supporting characters, like Aunty Entity & Humungous. We'll find out who the lead/s is/are in about a months time. Probably because of the casting leaks last week, Miller felt obliged to acknowledge that both Charlize & Tom had been cast.
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either way don't hate me because I read the script and the Feral Kid hasn't done anything for 25 years...maybe Tom Hardy will snarl and make grunting noises like the Feral Kid did - it did wonders for your career.
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to the Kung Fu Kid with Will Smith Jr.?
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I'm not necessarily a Mel fundamentalist on this issue, and maybe that pic is just representative of Hardy going all beefcake for that specific role in Bronson, but the thing I liked about Mel as Max was that he carried on the tradition of guys like Clint and Lee Marvin and Warren Oates of fairly realistic looking tough guys, and NOT just roided out Schwarzeneggers and cage fighters. I still trust Miller and frankly just want to see him return to the wastelands in any capacity, Gibson or no, but seeing Charlize looking all glammed out up there and this Hardy dude all creatine-ed and isotoned, suddenly I'm getting Doomsday cold feet. I don't want a bodybuilder outlaw with Aeon Flux in tow. I want a guy who looks like he eats dog food and maybe not-quite-as-nasty Eileen Wuornos. I know Miller can do the action, but I hope he hasn't succumbed to the Terminator Salvation school of a post apocalyptic world where vitamin supplements and teeth whitener are still widely available. I just want to see crazy looking redneck Australians wearing football pads and crashing cars in profanity inducing ways, and I'll consider it $10 well spent.
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Its Mad Mark... or Mad Randy. No Mel = No Mad Max. Adelai said it perfect...just call it Fury Road. This isnt fucking Batman. Mel Gibson is Mad Max. And from his actions over the past couple of years its perfect casting...cuz he's really pissed...or nuts...or both (even better)
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Oct 29, 2009 11:15:36 PM CDT
Picking a HOT pic of Charlize is supposed to sway you
by professor_monster
This movie will fucking tank - who do they make these remakes for anyway -? Most of the time they don't work - especially when missing an element or two from the original. Mel is so Mad Max - this new fucker looks like a closet fag - your a-typical shit box that lives to dinkey punch "niggers". Fuck this movie. I'm off to watch Thunderdome!
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Oct 29, 2009 11:15:44 PM CDT
This movie is going to be from the roads point of view
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
a groundbreaking form of filmmaking known as cinema nouveau
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Oct 29, 2009 11:17:20 PM CDT
or make it about the feral kid who became the feral man
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
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And neither was Smokey and the Bandit 3.
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I wish Miller could have done his Justice League movie(s) instead. The guy is a brilliant film maker from films for youngins like Babe to hard R adult stuff like The Road Warrior. I felt he could have pulled it off as its own world and not conflict with Nolan's Batman films and other Superheros in the works like Green Lantern and Superman.
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Check out the pic of Hardy that /Film has posted. Looks like old school Mel. Just sayin.
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DAMN! Just.....DAMN!
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Oct 29, 2009 11:29:33 PM CDT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo
by thewaqman
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Oct 29, 2009 11:29:51 PM CDT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
by thewaqman
I'm fucking depressed.
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...change the picture on me. Fuckin' Herc. That's much more like it though. Now just make him a different character than Max, in the same world, and I got no problem.
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It's interesting that Miller is now saying "It could be Mel", since for years he repeatedly said it wouldn't be. Perhaps the studio is worried about such a series revival without its star- especially after T4 underperformed?
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He went with a charcter actor who was right for the part instead of a star.I've never seen Nemesis so my opinion isn't tainted, but I thought he was quite good in Rock'N'Rolla
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Rockrolla's the first movie I ever heard of him now I'm seeing this Hardy cat everywhere.
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If Miller wasn't involved, I'd be pissed. Mel Gibson is a prop, and easily replaced. Welcome back to the franchise, George. Anyone who dismisses the next film because of a lack of Mel Gibson is either retarded or a bitter neo-Nazi.
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I am a certified Mad Max nut seeing the 1st movie as a 8 yr old and trying to explain it to my knucklehead friends in a philly grade school. Since that movie I have only owned black cars the latest being an 09 Challenger SRT8 only because it looks close to the Interceptor. My point is it's not about who plays Max. It's the cars morons. As long as Max is fairly grizzled and looks like he is not to be fucked with in a dark alley it will be ok. AS LONG AS THE MAX CAR IS BLACK AND COOL. I offer up my Challenger as a prime example of what I need to see. Mustang KR will do but the new Knight Rider cough Bullshit cough ruined that possibility. Transformers also eliminate the Camaro. Make sure we have real speed, real fights, and real revenge. As much as I love the 1979 film I would love a remake (not a reboot suits!) of that film that fleshed out the characters and ratchet up the hunt for those responsible for Max's wife and son's demise. If idiots around here watched the film they would know that Max's son was DOA in the original and his wife was on lofe support so son of Max story is a mental midget cop out. Let's do this one right for fuck's sake. That is all.
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Oct 30, 2009 12:13:12 AM CDT
and fuck the guy above me who says Mad Max is all about "cars".
by ironhelix
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I would disagree with everything you wrote, if I actually read it.
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let mel get back to his torture porn and snuf flicks
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So no Gibson...that's okay...it won't be the same but hopefully the movie will still rock.
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Only seen him as Shinzon, I'm in the minority that thought Star Trek Nemesis was coo', so it's good to see him in what may be a career making move for him. If it does happen for him I'll be able to say I liked him way back when like when these poser drake fans pretend they liked drake back on degrassi.
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Does anyone know what the story or timeline of the forth film will be?
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Because if you remember his closing words, he said he grew up to be the great leader of his tribe and he never saw Max ever again. Or maybe as tribute he cals himself Max?
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I haven't seen the script but surely his age has some relevance to the plot? Do they have 2 different screenplays, young Max/old Max, for use dependent upon who is cast? According to Variety part 4 takes place a few years after "Thunderdome", which would suggest Gibson is out. And that's a damn shame.
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Mel was never an option
cry about that all you like - try to bullshit us that you're not going to see the movie, even...
interesting how Miller talked all that talk about wanting to help the Aussie film industry - but the cast so far is a Yank (well South African, really) and a Brit
again, it was never gonna be Mel - who's not really Aussie, I believe - but no love for some unknown stage or tv actor who's trying to make their way in an industry he himself describes as abysmally dysfunctional? What about all those ex-pats he was lamenting over who were "desperate" to work on an Australian project?
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"Blimey, mate... I 'ope me scarf matches me jacket!". He looks like a mook; a buster to Mel's stone-cold pimp. True, he's had parts in both "Layer Cake" and "Black Hawk Down", but I doubt he'd have been missed in either one.They wanna cast THIS guy as Mad Max? Well have at it, hoss(es)... just don't expect me to buy into it.
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My back has bigger breasts than her's.
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there i said it
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Reminds me of the kind showered upon Heath Ledger when he was cast as Joker. Not that Tom Hardy may be as good as Heath as Max or whoever he's cast as, but just like Christopher Nolan had a lot of love and deep reverance for the source material he was bringing to the screen, George Miller arguably has the same if not more considering he created this universe. Also like Heath all these folks keep refering to the homo stuff Tom did in some other film(s?) and that somehow precludes him from being Max, just like people kept calling Heath the poker because of brokeback mountain. I look forward to this film because I know whatever role Tom Hardy has it's because George Miller believes he's the best possible choice for it. And I love that this film'll be in the same universe just like the other 3 fliqs yet were all different from each other.
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Reminds me of the kind showered upon Heath Ledger when he was cast as Joker. Not that Tom Hardy may be as good as Heath as Max or whoever he's cast as, but just like Christopher Nolan had a lot of love and deep reverance for the source material he was bringing to the screen, George Miller arguably has the same if not more considering he created this universe. Also like Heath all these folks keep refering to the homo stuff Tom did in some other film(s?) and that somehow precludes him from being Max, just like people kept calling Heath the poker because of brokeback mountain. I look forward to this film because I know whatever role Tom Hardy has it's because George Miller believes he's the best possible choice for it. And I love that this film'll be in the same universe just like the other 3 fliqs yet were all different from each other.
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Would be even cooler than Stallone's already uber-cool EXPENDABLES cast.
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Oct 30, 2009 3:11:39 AM CDT
people who think Mel wasn't required for Mad Max success
by takingscorpioscalls
are fucking idiots of the lowest order. Mel gave the right combination for the character going from a jokester, to coiled rage to outright subdued cynicism like the man with no name. Fucking idiots have no clue about presence.
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like the australian by casting an aussie in your movie.u will help it by using its equipment,man power and settings.making a movie is not only about the protagonist,hundreds of people participate in the making of a movie,and Miller by producing his movie in australia,he makes sure that a lot of australian people from the film industry will have work to do and earn money.
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I'm sold. he will be a great Max or Boomarang kid or whatever. It's george miller and it's mad max. Stop being little fools. The Max rescue thing sounds badass.
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Oct 30, 2009 3:24:26 AM CDT
TakingScorpiosCalls oh I totally agree, man
by player_two_has_entered_the_game
but you think he's needed for a new spin off?
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Go TOM! Guess Mel's too busy denying the Holocaust.
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well made
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Tom Hardy will go over with this one, Charlize gives me confidence as well, but she'll need to "Monster" up if she's to be believable in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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Hardy is great in it. Charlize Theron can sit on my face after a long day.
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For crimes against acting.
Witness`The Take`or`Bronson`for most amazing overacting this side of a Pantomime. -
For crimes against acting.
Witness`The Take`or`Bronson`for most amazing overacting this side of a Pantomime. -
Nothing against Hardy, Bronson was fun (Chopper light) but I just can't see him as Max. Was gunning for Bana or Worthington. Could this be erroneous Hollywood reporting? Or maybe a smokescreen until the real Max casting is locked in?
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Way to fuck up George. No Mel = no Mad Max movie.
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Road Warrior is its own genre.
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Hardy's about the best their is right now. Brosnan & Stuart: A Life Backwards (BBC) & The Take (Sky) prove he's the most exciting actor working today.What's up with Hercules? Sci-fi 'EPIC' Aeon Flux??? And why cite Star Trek: Nemesis & RocknRolla for Hardy - they're both naff!!!Anyway, the fact that he can play 'bad' just as well as 'good' means there's still the outside chance Hardy's the villain of MM4, but i hope not - he's a much more interesting choice than Worthington and Bana and will give us a dark yet colorful, vulnerable yet mad Max.
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but I'm going anyway. I can't resist new post apocalyptic Miller car fuckery.
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Oct 30, 2009 4:34:32 AM CDT
Don't think the casting of a Pommie Max is going to go down well
by killakane
I reckon Hardy's been cast as an ancillary character or maybe a 'Johnny the Boy' style nomad villain. He's a solid actor but I can't believe Miller wouldn't opt for homegrown talent (as evinced in his recent press junket) for the lead, Aussies are extremely proud of Mad Max and it just wouldn't feel right with a Brit affecting an Aussie accent.
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It would be like Max's Valhalla/Twilight of the Gods moment. Have Mel play Max has a broken man who just weants to die, and have the Hardy character who starts off has a coward forced to take up Max's car and mission.
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He doesn't look old enough to jump in after that film. He might be able to pull off Max sometime between MAD MAX and ROAD WARRIOR.
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Hardy was amazing in The Take...I'm in.
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Who is going to go see a flick like this with a weak actor in the lead? Mel is Max, period. Throw those hair extensions on his head and get him pronto..the dude is only 53 and in great shape. The only reason he looks older is because he is losing his hair..that is fixed with the weave and he will be back ready to kick ass and take names. Mel is a must in this role.
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and a yank Sherlock Holmes, we can have a pom max
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what next - Indy 5 with Nathan Fillion in an Indy adventure set just after Last Crusade..? Dirty Harry 6 with a case set pre Sudden Impact with the villian out of Die Another Day? (at least those would have the excuse that the original guy is too old - not so in Maxs case)
seriously im fucking annoyed about this - if Shinzon is Max instead of another character (grown up ferrel kid or whatever) then there cant even be a fuckin Mel as Max cameo....I know they cant really make a Mad Max film without it being about Max but still....
it llooks like Mel has been sidelined due to his little 'incident' - in actual fact itd have a MUCH better chance of being a huge hit if Mel was on board....i mean WHY wouldnt Mel want to appear in a comeback movie that could blast him back?
Hercules? its the exact opposite for me - I'd choose a Miller-free Mel "Max" over a Mel-free Miller "Max" every time. Even if Michael Bay was directing
fuck me this sucks....its genuinily quite depressing actually - dont really give a fuck about Max 4 now - i mean ok we get Mad Max 4 but without Mel? its like being given a Quarter Pounder without the burger...
for those like myself who only go to the cinema when its absolutly neccesary - its gone from being a certain theatre showing to a dvd rental for me...
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still hurtin' and holdin on to the hope that Mel will still be Max
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may as well...for a laugh
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that theres no Mel...
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...Theron speak in her native tongue, on and off, throughout the movie...and speak with her South African accent. It is rather beautiful and exotic to the ear.
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Whine. Cry. Whine. Cry.
We all know it's a mistake to recast an iconic role like mad max.
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a bad omen for a Mel less Max
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Oct 30, 2009 6:26:21 AM CDT
Well guess I'm out! Two inept stars needed for Mad Max=FAIL!
by hollywoodhellraiser
suck it Miller!
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I think Miller will have a prologue/pre-title sequence, or flashback:An elderly, dying Gibson tells the adolescent Feral Kid that HE's Max now.We see that over the years Gibson has taught the Kid to talk... Cut to the Hardy as Max in in the even more bizarre and violent world that's evolved post-Gibson's demise.We see that Gibson taught him how to fight, drive, use a gun, and use his head...
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...no Max. And I like Tom Hardy, but sorry, Tom, you aren't Max.
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so STFU
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Thanks for the Charlize pic, I needed quick release before work up here.
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Miller FTW
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Text from Hollywood Reporter."Despite his long association with the fourth movie, Mel Gibson is not reprising his iconic role of Max Rockatansky, the hardened ex-cop in a future beset by gas shortages and marauding gangs."
"That job goes to Hardy, the British-born actor who stole scenes as Handsome Bob in Guy Ritchie’s “RocknRolla.” (”RocknRolla” has proved to be a launch pad for Hardy, who booked a gig in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” as well. He also starred in “Bronson.”)"
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Space Chimps. Why not?
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Even though Mel is not in it...which is a shame, but lets remember there has been 6 official James Bonds and now only 2 Mad Max's, so lets give Tom Hardy a chance...
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She is. So hottttttttttt. Decent actor as well.
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I cant see how theres any hope for Mel now...FUCK
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Anyone who disagrees:(1) Hasn't seen "Bronson" in the first place.(2) Didn't realise that the same guy in "Bronson" was Picard's clone in "Star Trek: Nemesis"(3) Knows fuck all about anything(4) Is a complete and utter cunt.
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Even if Mel wanted to play Max again,even if he did it for free,Miller still could not use him because its pretty obvious that the guy wants to reboot the franchise and make a lot of sequel movies,if the first movie is a hit.
Miller owns the franchise,he wants to help his homeland film industry,his name is not that hot in Holywood right now and well he obviously needs more money. (who doesnt?)
Yes he does know that it Mel IS Max,he knows that mel can pull it off despite his age (like harisson ford),his movie has a lot of more chances to become a hit,BUT what about the next Mad Max movies? Mel will be too old for the next mad max movie and Miller will be forced to use a new actor.
So Millers decision for a new actor to play Max in this rebooted/sequel movie is the sensible one.He will try sooner than later,to establish a new actor for an iconic character,aimed at a new generation.just like what happened with star trek,james bond,etc.At the end its all about planing for the future. -
I've seen him in other stuff that he was good in, too. Tom Hardy is a good actor. Doesn't mean I want him cast as John Rambo or The Terminator.
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...I suppose that's true. If that's what he's going for, then he should recast. It's disappointing, though.
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but if Max 4 dosnt do too well there wont BE any sequels...
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everytime i see Hardy I think young Patrick Stewart
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No one cares about this franchise anymore. Mel 'the Furor' Gibson is off making flicks where he carries around beaver puppets...If we bring this back can we also bring back Gremlins, Buckaroo Bonzai and Max Headroom? Some things are meant to die. This film franchise and the panda bear are prime examples.
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there will be the prevailing sense of disappointment....like the moment people realised Phantom Menace wasnt cutting it or when people went to see OHMSS with Lazenby
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The Panda to be recast as a black bear with some white paint.
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CARTMANEZ, you're right.
With a recast Max the only way for this film to be truly embraced now is if Miller does an AMAZING job with it. If it's merely 'decent' then that wont be enough to save it from a mauling.
I hope he can do it, but as many other tb'ers have mentioned I would have been more comfortable with it if he'd used Mel, even in just an extended cameo to pass the torch on to Tom Hardy (like Anthony Hopkins in ZORRO). -
just to rub salt into the wound
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do it, promise.
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Spense and Turner to cameo as the new 'tent fuckers'.
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IT WILL STILL be precieved as having been more amazing with Mel...
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ONE MAN LEAVE!
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Oct 30, 2009 8:15:07 AM CDT
Why no get someone who at least LOOKS like Mel..not Patrick Stew
by cartmanez
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or Those stupid kids?
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Good idea - he'd be great in John Rambo & Terminator.You should be a casting agent!Anything Hardy's in is better because he's in it.
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Did not finish the orginal so I am nither hyped or mad about the remake
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Without Mel, I'm not interested. They can call this a sequel all they like, but without Gibson it's less a true sequel and more of a reboot / reimagining for another generation, just the same as all the other pointless vapid remakes lately
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But I'm still skeptical. If it's "breakthtakingly gorgeous" Charlize Theron, then it's stupid. If it's "Monster-esque makeup" Charlize Theron, it'll work.
Nobody should be really, really, unbelievably good-looking in a post-apocalyptic setting.
Hell, I'm still pissed off that Jesus kept all his teeth after the shit-kicking he received in Passion of the Christ (What, the soldiers beat him senseless but left his million dinar smile alone? How does that work?!). -
After BEYOND THUNDERDOME, this better be good. and screw Mel Gibson, this franchise can be reinvented without him.
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Yeah, I like the idea of a black&white prologue sequence, just set to music and narration.
Show Mel scavenging a recent attack and finding a survivor, a young boy. A montage of him and the youth growing older, survival tricks and techniques being passed on. There's a run-in and Max takes a crossbow bolt to the chest (from the baddie of the piece), his adopted son gets him back to their cave. Mel pushes a rag into the young man's hand, stares at him with intensity and then dies. The rag falls open revealing Max's sawn off shotgun and his cop badge. The name on the badge says Max Rockatansky.
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Would nicely make up for how #2 and #3 completely ignored his previous law enforcement employment.
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And this is from someone who hasn't even seen the RW movies. Imagine if they did. Fuggedabouddit.
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Cheers Royston - I only hope George Miller is reading too!
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Oct 30, 2009 9:52:25 AM CDT
WILL THERE BE A SCENE OF CHARLIZE SITTING ON ME FACE?
by bringingsexyback
If not, then fail.
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I aint seeing this shit I don't fucking care how fucking good it is. I'll wait until I can stumble across it on FX or SPIKE TV. Not even worth a 1$ Redbox rental. Nor will watch the eventual bootleg copy that will soon show up online. This franchise is dead to me.
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Don't you sign up for the free coupons under different email addresses?
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Why not cast him as Indy too FFS.
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Where Jaguar Paw becomes the new king of the Mayans and fights the Spaniards.
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There's a big difference here. The people who weren't talking shit actually saw talent in Ledger. Before the Dark Knight it was well known that Heath had the potential to become the next Brando. Tom Hardy was what? Handsome Pete (or whatever his fucking name was) in that shite RockNRolla and played a bit part in Black Hawk Down. Bronson's alright though, but nothing spectacular.
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Considering I'm dressing up as Aeon Flux tomorrow. Weird.
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Harrison Ford is senile and the script for Indy IV was bound to suck, so I wouldn't have given 2 shits. Mel Gibson still looks like he can rock the shit though, and we all wanted to see an older more badass maniacal Max coming from Mel. Also I'm 99 percent sure that this script will be a worthy sequel to Road Warrior, unlike Crystal Skull was to the Indy trilogy.
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This casting is foolhardy.
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Make it so the original is dead and she was one of those kids from Thunderdome, picking up where he left off. That's the only angle taht could possibly get me a tiny bit interested in this.
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Oct 30, 2009 10:24:52 AM CDT
This is like recasting Babe in Babe III
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
don't do it, needs the original Babe or nothing
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Zooey swinging a nailed club on a motorcycle? I get tingles just thinking about that.
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This morning, my heart is heavy. I can only hope this "announcement" is some sort of ploy to pressure Mel into returning. But that seems unlikely. Fucking sucks, this does...
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for me at least. Considering that Mel is actually just the right age to play Max "a few years" after the events of thunderdome. Instead, they get some young cat who they then then have to "agify" to approximate the age of the character? Wankers.
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He's a great actor, as evidenced by Bronson. He just shouldn't have been cast as a young Patrick Stewart as it just wasn't very believable. Patrick Stewart should have also played the clone.
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Oct 30, 2009 11:03:18 AM CDT
TD - i had the original BABE pig in a sandwich back in '99
by cartmanez
They'll have to get his great grand kid for Babe 3
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Hardy has earned a gold pass in my book. Which means he could go do a Jane Austen film and I would watch it. If that's all he ever did, I might lose interest fast, but Bronson was good enough that I will take a chance on him in anything.
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Yes, Mel would be better, and they'd make a ton more money if he were involved. Mel needs a good action movie anyway, it's been a while. This would be perfect.
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Sky Captain and the Wrath of Laurence Oliver
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Fucking morons.
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BHC 4 - starring Chris Rock - set just after BHC 3
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Max can swish his way across the wasteland
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if youd clicked on AICN today and it had 'Click here to find out out Max is in Fury Road'
you click on it and stare at two words:
MEL GIBSON
for the full fukin movie
not tom fuckin hardy
ahh fuck this - i am beyond caring now
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I wouldn't be surprised if Hardy turns out to be Max's son, Max Junior. Then you could have Mel and Hardy running around, lobbing post-apocalyptic grenades and driving fast cars. Kind of like Crystal Skull. Only with a cohesive script and inspired direction.
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That is all.
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This shit is obviously not for any body over 15 anyway... While your at it Dirty Harry could use a lil' tuning up as well.
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Thank you for finding that picture of Charlize and putting it at the top of the article (which I still have yet to read, but am sure it's great).
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Chris Pine as Riggs! Chris Tucker as Murtaugh!!!! Die Hard 5 w/ Sam Worthington as John McLane!!!! Rambo 5 will actually be a presequel taking place between Rambo 2 and 3 and will star Gerard Butler!!!!
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Im going to be running the London Marathon with Charlize Theron in April 2010. I hope she'll wear those big black pants.
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The dude of Terminator, Avatar, Titans, etc...
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Mad Max is and always will be an Australian. I DGAF what anyone says. This fucking guy is clearly NOT Australian. Fuck off Miller.
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I know dude, it would have been one of those magical moments online.
"MEL IS MAX ONCE AGAIN!" -
....possibly!!
Mel should actually go out in a blaze of glory like Heston in "Beneath The Planet of the Apes" - f*cking BLOW THE EARTH UP!!! -
finding out Paramount was redoing star trek as a big budget movie with Nimoy
learning Bryan Singer was gonna be directing Superman Returns (using the Reeve films as backstory)
Ridley Scott directing the Alien prequel after it looked like his daugheters bfriend was gonna do it
all i can think of off hand - must be a whole load more though
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I was pulling for Worthington
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Over Hardy's body!
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Seriously. Fuck. You.
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But that picture of Charlize: Mmmrrwwr! What's this all about again?
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i could except this as a story also existing in that world.
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fast and furious (the real deal) car action.
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respect to Miller.
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Oct 30, 2009 7:12:17 PM CDT
I probably shouldnt say this but i've been hired to as co-writer
by takingscorpioscalls
Miller called me up a few months back for some script touchups.
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Write in a part for me, yo!
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Oct 30, 2009 7:34:52 PM CDT
A part in whatever movie they're talking about, that is.
by tedkordlives
I still haven't gotten past that picture of Charlize.
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maybe its a different "Max"...different motivation/premise maybe?? just at thought
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Do you want the lead part? I'm so pissed at Miller for not getting Mel that i'm going to write in a part for YOU instead of that other guy.
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I can do action. If it is an action movie, that is. I STILL haven't gotten past that picture of Charlize. I can also do slapstick. Hmmm, Charlize and slapstick. I'll be right back.
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is max so mad after so many years? do we really need more violence in our post apocalyptic worlds? where are the muppets in all this? how about a good ol fun road movie with hanna and disney fun just trying to find that perfect look or shade of make-up in a world full of gloom. maybe a song about aids at the end?
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Not sure why Mel can't return. He has been open to returning in the past and I think returning to this role could revive his acting career after a bit of a layoff. The fans want it and the fans are ALWAYS right. Yes Mel is older but people do age so why can't we get a older Mad Max? Clint Eastwood has proven you can still be old and be badass (just look at Gran Tarino). Stallone has proven it as well. Mel has always been a good actor and despite his off screen problems over the years people would love to see him return to the role than made him famous. Of course it's not a shocker he's not coming back because Hollywood is into remaking/rebooting movies/franchies these days. We got a Arnold-free Terminator and now a Mel-free Mad Max. Reguardless of the actors they got for the latest Terminator it just didn't work (but it wasn't just the actors, and Bale is a fine actor).
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Believe it or not Mel is ONLY 7 years older than Johnny Depp. Mel is 53, Depp is 46. He's alot younger than Ford and Stallone. Mel is 6 years younger than Steven Segal, who is still making action movies.
Mel is also just a year younger than Bruce Willis. Imagine if they re-cast the John McClain role and re-booted than franchise. Bullshit! -
When did you ever stop 'pulling?'
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And don't make the story about Mad Max losing his "madness" when he finds Charlize and they breed and live happily blah blah blah . . .
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...Charlize Theron. Why else would they call it...FURRY ROAD!
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It's Friday night!!!!!!!!!!!
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Now we know that won't happen.
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Oct 30, 2009 11:00:03 PM CDT
How is the movie still called Mad Max if Mad Max isn't in it???
by scottieleverne
I really don't understand this..
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How many different actors have played...BatmanSupermanJames Bondet alunderstand now?
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like the original and I'm there. No need to pile money on top of money to make more outrageous sets, characters, and the like. Just give me something as intense as Dead Calm mixed with the realism of the original Road Warrior. Small cast. Small budget. Great story. Great action. Done.
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Show some respect to my balls, bitch.
I'll show Miller respect when he respects his fans. Fuck you too. -
Oct 31, 2009 1:43:27 AM CDT
Mel is the age Shatner was during Search for Spock
by takingscorpioscalls
So yeah. In fact Shatner could play Max right now if Miller asked him.
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Harrison Ford looks like an old fart. Mel Gibson, however, still looks like a badass. I wouldn't find it too unbelievable seeing him as Mad Max again. I think he's not in this film because he doesn't want to be in it. George Miller was probably begging.
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See Star Trek.
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See Terminator 3 and 4.
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at the time of Trek III....
virtually EVERY ep hes bustin ass, hanging onto car hoods, hanging off planes
he even roped his pal Nimoy into the action playing a nut cop who goes all Charlie Bronson after his daughter gets raped -
set shortly after the events of AOD
yeah that one would go down well huh?
FUCK -
"I'd choose a Gibson-free Miller "Max" over a Miller-free Gibson "Max" every time."
I don't know...I reckon Mel Gibson could *direct* a pretty decent Mad Max film... -
Kabong, thanks.
Yeah Mel could probably direct a fantastic Max movie. Plus he could rope in some of his APOCALYPTO cast. Some of those guys who played the 'baddie' tribe would make fantastic Humungous henchmen. -
Star Trek: Nemesis proves the exception to your statement. There was nothing redeeming about that film.
I think the Evil Dead comparison fits well. No one would be happy without Bruce in there. I feel the same way about this as I do the news a few years ago that they wanted to remake Escape from New York with Gerard Butler. I think Gerard Butler is fantastic, but Snake Plisskin is Kurt Russell, thank you very much. Same goes for Mel and Max. -
...keep the concept, just don't have him be Max and call it "Fury Road." I could live with that.
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if he is going to have a sex scene with charlize in the movie,despite being professional.fucking ass.
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like any passion and fire he had for the role had gone...
its true - watch it again and he has a kind of serene detachment in it all...like he just going through the motions with a quiet smile...in fact its almost like Charles Xaiver playing Picard - very calm, very knowing, almost passive etc..not at all like the picard in TNG series or the 3 movies (similar thing happened with Shatner in Treks V and VII - nothing like the Kirk of TOS and the other movies)
i read that there had been some ugly discussions about his pay packet and he came close to saying walking away...obviously he'll have wanted more $ as since Insurection hed become the star of X men and the forthcoming X2 and they were probably paying alot more than Trek...and the star trek people will have just wanted to pay him the same as he got for Insurection (probably with no inflation either)
plus i read it was a crappy shoot with the director not giving a fuck about star trek...
oh and Shinzon came across as a whiney lille biotch - a pathetic Khan wannabe
what amaazes me is they went with a kinda similar villian for the Trek reboot - youd think theyd have wanted to get a million light years away from anything to do with Nemesis... -
How hard is it to sit in a car and look angry? Not very. Even the geezerly Clint Eastwood could do that.
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i think it goes like this: if u have a recipe of success that is always working,dont change it.
and that exactly what JJ Abrams and co did: they used the idea of a revenge story with a khan-like opponent,which they know it has worked very well in the past.only this time,they were very careful on the execution of this idea,opposite to what happened in Nemesis.
But they made a mistake: they cant use again a khan-like villain for the direct sequel,since it will become boring,so they need
something else.i suppose they will use that Klingon Kor or maybe Kang from TOS.talk about originality.
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bald...in charge of a huge destroyer ship...Romulans...
it all felt a little too close for comfort to Nemesis - but they pulled it off ok...
for the sequel i imagine they'll probably go with the klingons (nasty TOS/Trek III type klingons - not the boring TNG types) and have a Dark Knight style closing coda of either a Federation ship or the klingons finding the botany bay - leading to Trek '3' with KHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAN
after that if they still making them i wouldnt mind seeing how Kirk and Co handels the Borg -
yeah...i don't know how that would go over, in spite of the purist rage apparent here - just look at Indiana Jones...In the next movie, it'll be worse.
I'll leave my trust in Miller, who in the first movie, took a nobody and made him an anti-hero that inspires this kind of talk back... -
It will be a travesty if Mel isn't in this.
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VERY f'in exciting...check this out...dude is a versatile badass..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLT_VB4Wg0U
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isnt he like the biggest Max fan ever and likes cars and racing??
maybe he could play a Humungous/Nero type villian - opposite Hardys Max (FUCK IT still SUCKS!)
or maybe Bana would be like 'nah sorry - no Mel..no Max' -
he was pretty bad in that - like a whiney little biotch
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If there's any doubt that this guy's a good fit for the new MAX Movie...take a look at him in New UK bio-flick BRONSON! This guy is fuckin Bug Nutz and chews up the screen. I enjoyed Bronson as a whole much more than I did Ing. Basterds
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There's posts everywhere here showing Mel's actual age being 53. I mean even a post underneath yours.
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For some reason, I think that crazy fucker would even have people who hate him enjoying the carnage. Just go balls out with it... and no bad cg fx. Notice I said no BAD cg... I'm not against cg, just when it's used in a lazy and ineffective manner.
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like that Robin Williams/Billy Crystal film - Fathers Day? where Mel cameoed...
or even something like new Max walks into Barder Town or wherever and the camara focuses on a beat up looking guy - Mel~
then leave to the fans to figure out if its the REAL Max and Hardy is playing another version or if it was just some other guy...or if Mel is playing Max 'prime' from the future etc -
Check out the reviews for Bronson.
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Check out this blog. Apparently it's for a new film. Trying to get some hype maybe?
http://blaisewylde.blogspot.com/
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Wouldn't know a good Mad Max movie from a dick in his ass. That is all Helix.
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nope. ill maybe catch it on dvd, hey?
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...I'd eat that
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that is all
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Mad iMax Electric Boogaloo
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perhaps Vin Diesel can be a Furian King of the Dessert now that you boyz wouldy pay for, you would...
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