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MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Casting Continues??
Merrick here...
Jay Baruchel, who'll soon appear in the forthcoming Bruckheimer/Turteltaub fantasy THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE with Nic Cage, may've spilled some beans regarding one of his co-stars in that film. Namely Teresa Palmer.
...actor Jay Baruchel told reporters interviewing him for the new Dreamworks film How To Train Your Dragon that Palmer, who splits her time between Australia and Hollywood, was preparing for a grueling shoot on the new Mad Max episode.
"She gets to work with him, and she's (going to be) doing Mad Max 4 with Miller," Baruchel said.
[EDIT]
"She's the main chick in Fury Road," he said.
...said the Herald Sun HERE.
The Sun says it isn't clear whether Palmer has been cast instead of Charlize Theron (who we recently learned was being sought for a part in the film) - or if the two will appear together in the project, which Herald Sun says is scheduled for a protracted shoot (roughly 7 1/2 months).
It's important to note that this casting has not been confirmed by by anyone associated with either Palmer of the production - nor has the news been refuted. So, treat it as more-than-rumor but not-entirely-official until a formal announcement has been made.
Timing of this is fun 'cause I've been watching the MAD MAX films in response to seeing BOOK OF ELI this weekend. Liked ELI film, but not without reservations. Found DBOX (this is the first feature film I experienced in the format) more distracting than affecting, although I suspect it would work great for something like PIRANHA 3-D.
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"She gets to work with him, and she's (going to be) doing Mad Max 4 with Miller," Baruchel said.
[EDIT]
"She's the main chick in Fury Road," he said.
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I;m not interested!
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forst !
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Can we get some news here?
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I loved the Road Warrior and the franchise as a whole. I just hope they don't butcher it in the name of greed.
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IF THERE IS NO GIBSON, THEN THERE IS NO MAD MAX. JUST LAUNCH FALLOUT FOR GOD'S SAKE. ENOUGH WITH THE EFFING REBOOTS ALREADY.
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What in God's name are they doing? Are they planning on actually nuking part of Australia? This whole thing sounds like a terrible iea to me anyway. The real mad max fans will probably hate it, and the new crowd wont give a shit unless they basically change everything that makes the road warrior awesome. It'll need post-apoc robots or some such garbage. I hope they butcher this as well...but....
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Woudln't it be nice just for once to see the effects that ageing has had on our heroes from the past such as Mad Max, John McClane , Conan etc etc? No , as that would entail some creativity from Hollywood for once.
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It is going to be pure shit. Mad Max is Mel Gibson, no one else.
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and save a lot of anguish, just have the car be found and fixed up by angry amsel or whoever
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Jan 18, 2010 11:31:32 AM CST
I'd like to know how this wil be a Mad Max story
by battle_royale_with_cheese
If the titular character doesn't appear in it.
Lemme guess, they're gonna make Max short for Maxine or something. -
Jan 18, 2010 11:35:53 AM CST
Should be called The Road Warrior 2 - with the non Gibson
by lisaneedsbraces
lead playing the next Road Warrior. That way, they can get away with not branding Mad Max. Road Warrior was the best of the 3 anyway, and the one they should be aiming to top.
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Seriously, Get Mel!
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it only exist in the time of Max....
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Starring Robin Williams.
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No film, it's that simple....
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No Max.
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My blood is seething with pain, confusion, anger, sadness...
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As we learned with Mad Max and The Road Warrior which were devoid of any major star power at the time, was that the cars, stunts and camerawork is what made these films one of a kind. Thunderdome failed due to comical performances and lack of high-octane auto chases. Remember the awesome low-angle camera shots in Mad Max and cinematography in The Road Warrior. I don't give a shit about what star is cast because what we have learned in the past is that they can't save the franchise but only gritty, in-your face, high-octane speed and violence with a good story.
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I just want another wasteland movie from George Miller, and while I wouldn't turn down another chance to see Mel retake the role of Max, I could just as easily do without his baggage. But in all honesty, I'd much rather see Miller do his version of Truman and Bradstreet's "Dragon Chiang" comic book than dredge up Max just for nostalgia's sake. -
This site sucks...
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...the new guy isn't named Max. Just make it about someone else. Like maybe the Autogyro Captain and the blonde tart had a kid, or sumthin' like that.
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. . . he's named AFTER Mel's character.
But don't make it the same character. It'll just give me Sum of All Fears flashbacks, and I don't want that. -
. . . an old Australian model.
If they pack the movie with newish cars from the Americas, it's gonna make my oatmeal hit the wall. -
Thats surprising.
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And I want an aged King Conan sequel too gorramnit!
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NO WAY.
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Jan 18, 2010 12:55:45 PM CST
I wish Ford still made a muscle-car version of the Falcon.
by royston lodge
The modern version of the Australian Ford Falcon is such a wussy fuckin' car. Holden kick's Ford's ass in that department.
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Seriously, Mad Max is one of those roles that you just can't see anyone else playing! If not, then Royston Lodge's ideas above might work, in a "Son of (fill-in-the-blank of your favorite fantasy character)" kinda way.
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Nice to see (or at least hear he's been cast in) another "high profile" fliq. Hope he doesn't do the same charaqter though, being typecast as a social retard in legwarmers in a boxing movie and then playing a social retard in a post apoqalyptic world is not good at all.
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Mo cuishle!
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Why so damn long? Don't mos movies get like2-3 months TOPS of principal?Are they filming 2 road warrier films???
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there i said it
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...the Autogyro Captain DID have a kid in the third one.
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he was an entirely different character.Miller himself has confirmed this.
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oops wrong quote
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...there.Now I feel a little better.
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Georger Miller needs to be impaled... bad. (Figuratively speaking, of course...)
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Jan 18, 2010 2:07:07 PM CST
ominus: Did he have an extraordinarily high midichorian count?
by royston lodge
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"Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give me your blunt pole, the grease, and the whole compound, and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away and we'll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror."
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In the future,
cities will become deserts,
roads will become battlefields,
and the hope of mankind
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...but just a little...
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...months of filming. Are they doing more than one film? If not, why so long? That length of time would lead me to believe the film has a massive budget, which is actually a little disappointing. I'm growing tired of $200 plus million dollar movies as I just don't see the results on screen. Book of Eli shows an 80 million dollar budget on Box Office Mojo while Lovely Bones and It's Complicated come in at 100 and 85 respectively. Something doesn't compute, there. The last Harry Potter was 250 million. How can a movie that should have existing sets and a clear production formula to follow cost that much money? Studios need to get this shit under control. Aaannnyyyyway. I'm starting to care less about casting for this movie and more about wanting to know the planned story route. I'm going to see it no matter who's in it.
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Gervais' introduction of Mel Gibson was classic!
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was due to the massive amount of car chase/stunt work involved... and if George can't deliver Mel, he sure as hell better deliver an action blow-out that makes "Road Warrior" look like "The Straight Story." Knowatimsayin'?
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Whuuuuuuuuuaaaaaahh?!
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...when his turn came for abuse. Ricky Gervais bolted from the sage like a cottontail rabbit after the intro...pretty funny.
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sure, that's what Road Warrior lacked. Glad they identified that weak spot. Yay.
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edited version of MM3 where it is confirmed that Gyro is indeed the Gyro? HA
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True. And there's two generations of movie fans around the world waiting for the same thing. But what was so beautiful about the first two is that he made those incredible films out of so little. It was two movies jumping up out of Australia kicking the rest of the world in the ass, saying "look what I did down here while nobody was paying attention, haha!" Granted, I don't know what they cost or how long it took to make them. Maybe they both took a shit load of time, too. But 7 1/2 months really is a LOOOOONG time to shoot. All three LOTR movies were done in 18 months.
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And that's the same thing I though. "Whaauuuuuuu?"
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...were actual surplus police cars.
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just watched miller's commentary on Road Warrior (fantastic in blu-ray by the way). he says MM2 took 1 year from time script started till release. shooting couldn't have been more than couple of months.
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I want that SOOO bad. Wanted it since the abysmal Conan The Destroyer shat all over The Barbarian (rarely has there been such a shit pile of a sequel in cinema history). However, seeing Arnie up on the podium speaking last night at the Golden Globes kind of soured me on the idea. See, I've always expecting him to play Conan The King at some point after he finished politicking. But man, he just looks, I don't know, fake? His face doesn't look like his face anymore. It kinda freaked me out.
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...what he does with 7 1/2 months of footage then. lol Thanks baron v.
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...they could fix that for a movie if they wanted to...long hair etc. A guy like Arnold is foolishly trying to look like he's thirty nine...you'd want King Conan to look as grizzled as possible...bring out every nook and cranny.No need to take his shirt off if it isn't realistic to do so anymore either.It could work. It won't. But it could.
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I agree about the physique part of it, wouldn't be a problem at all. And the look I'd want would be the one they show of "King Conan" sitting on his thrown at the end of The Barbarian after he'd become "king by his own hand". With the layers of leather and cloth, long grayed hair and beard. PLUS the wrinkles. But it's not even the orange I'm getting at. He just aged weird somehow, doesn't look like the same guy. And how the hell is it that his accent has NEVER changed, or possibly gotten WORSE? "Ahvadah" lol That's not really a problem for King Conan, though. Wouldn't really expect it to have all that much dialogue. But like you say, not expecting it to happen, either. And I wouldn't want to see it unless Milius was involved, anyway.
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Despite the recent Edge of Darkness trailers... Mel looks great and easily good enough to dawn the leather back on for a final Mad Max. If he looks a tad too old for some then whip out the ole Benjamin Button software to smooth out a few wrinkles. The ONLY other consideration... the ONLY one... was after I saw an early screening of Spartacus... and that is Andy Whitfield.
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Are people excited for this? I recently watched the trailer and some of the behind the scenes stuff OnDemand ans was really, like, confused. Is it MEANT to be a series purposefully ripping off Gladiator and 300? Because that's EXACTLY what it looks like. It's as if some exec was sitting in a room with "the money" and said, "hey, what do you think about morphing Gladiator and 300 into a series, stealing both of their visual styles.... and we'll call it Spartacus so it seems familiar to people!?" .... I'm still gonna watch the first ep, though. Heh.
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Max confronts a Biker. Max: What are you looking at, sugar tits? Don't you know that the Jews were responsible for the pocalypse? A Jewish mechanic fucked up my vehicle which is why I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere. The Jews are to blame for everything!
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I guess trying to manage a up a broke-ass state like Coddyfonyuh can really take its toll.
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Uh, that should be "manage a broke-ass state"
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that is all
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Geriatric Nazi Douche!
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Get on with it and cast Mel already!
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I hate those mad max films. people walking around pretending to be in the future. You better have one hell of a script. Its all that bland desert no color look. count me out
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We already have.
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That new Monaro they did a few years back could be a good follow-up to the old Falcon I reckon. That thing looked mean but fairly classic at the same time.
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Even though this article has an edit it isn't quite clear. Jay is working with Nic Cage, so that can't be it, and then he mentions George Miller. So he's excited about Palmer working with who? It would be nice if it was Mel Gibson.
The one bright story lately was the one that has Mel's company Icon producing Fury Road. That would be a nice gesture to Miller whom he stood up in 2004 in the wake of The Passion. Apparently Mel is also one of the people who turned down Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (so he could direct Apocalypto), but I remember being disappointed when imdb got rid of the listing on his file after announcing the production offices had been closed.
Max Rockatanski is only interesting to revisit if played by Mad Mel. I'll certainly see Edge of Darkness and even The Beaver whether it is a potential hit or not. Fury Road would have direct-to-video written all over it without Mel as Max. -
OMG man it's going to kick so much ass. Let's hope Leo can pull off a decent English accent. He's using old Nordic and very old English. Authentic and fucking pro Mel is indeed. And oh how gory and brutal this shall be.
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If Mel is not in this, I will wait until the movie is on HBO to watch it. I will not spend my time and money going to a theater to see it. Also, the Jew jokes are getting lame. Leave Mel alone.
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Without Mel it won't be the same.
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... he makes nightmares!
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Is Hardy cast as Max or not? I thought he said they only talked and nothing was set. I know they say that all the time, but was Hardy ever confimed? And Hardy will rock as Max.
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Starring Drunk Mel Gibson. Now that would be a hell of a film.
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Cuz Vauxhall had a pretty mean-looking one recently.
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...up here in the Great White North, it's illegal to import cars that aren't manufactured specifically for the Canadian or US markets. So, no Mad Max replicas for me. Grumble grumble grumble...
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does sound abso-fuck-ley badass!!
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it's a classic up there with Raidres of the Lost Ark and Conan the Barbarian.
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I'd bet the length of shoot has to do with needing to film during different seasons. Could also mean Miller doesn't want to have a 2nd or 3rd unit so he can oversee the whole enchilada. Nothing to piss your panties over, kids.
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(that's my brother), but yeah, from the looks of it the Holden Monaro's second coming was also released as the Vauxhall Monaro where they stuck some extras under the hood, and in the States as the Pontiac GTO where they changed the look to something more sucky. For Aussies the 69 original is an all-time hoon classic on the level of the American Challenger or Charger from what I can gauge anyway...
As for no replicas for you, that sucks! I've seen the car down here a few times, and have my MM2 blu-ray signed by GM and everything. Woot! -
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