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New Mad Max Film
IceDiver writes "According to Google News Mel Gibson has signed up for a new Mad Max film "Fury Road". His salary? A whopping $25,000,000.00 Apparently the script has been in the works for 3 years and is highly polished. As a big fan of all 3 Mad Max films, I am looking forward to this one!
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I guess we know who run Bartertown.
This is perhaps the coolest thing to ever happen!!
"Two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd haul that tanker. You want to get out of here, you talk to me."
"Damage? You should see the damage, bronze! Metal damage! Brain damage! You listening bronze??!"
Ahh. I feel better now...
enough to make it look as low budget as the first one? Paying Mel 25 million they may not have a choice! :-)
1. Nother Mad Max Film (Granpa Max)
2. ???
3. Profit (yeah right)
Mad Max 4:Beyond the Nursing Home
"You admit to being a "fan" of Thunder Dome? Blarg."
I definately admit to it. To this day I'll occasionally hear the chanting in my head, "Two men enter! One man leave!"
Thankfully it's at completely inappropriate times like corporate meetings or trying to merge in traffic.
Chuck Firment
Remember where you are. This is Thunderdome. Death is listening, and will take the first man who screams.
Of course, I say Remember where you are. This is Slashdot. Mod is listening, and will take the first man who posts.
We don't need another hero, hero, all we want is what's beyond Thunderdome!
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
You mean according to Google News by way of CNN, by way of Reuters, don't ya?
3 years!?! That script must be so polished you have to shield your eyes from it.
Am I the only one that read the title as "Furry Road?"
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For $25,000,000 for the fourth movie he should go from "Mad Max" to "Old, Rich, Happy Max".
According to Google News Mel Gibson has signed up for a new Mad Max film "Fury Road".
And it's already available at sidewalk kiosks throughout China.
I'll see it, I'm sure, but I'm skeptical as to whether the true spirit of the originals will persist. The ideas and expressions that once comprised pop culture have changed so much that the original Mad Max themes of individualist strength and moral integrity will probably be cast aside in favor of a more contemporary populist sensibility.
By way of comparison, consider that "Popeye" had a character called Wimpy, who was addicted to hamburgers (a stand-in for alcohol in those more sensitive times). He was continuously broke, and to finance his habit was reduced to trying to con other characters out of their money ("I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"). His crippling addiction lost him everything, even his dignity. He was not a hero, but a character to be pitied for his devotion to something so artificial and his lack of work ethic.
Look at today's children's cartoons and you'll find nothing like Wimpy. Instead, you'll see obviously gay characters like Spongebob Squarepants, who epitomizes and glorifies chronic laziness and disrespect for authority. Even his name, "Squarepants," alludes to the angular uniforms of China's Red Army. Is it any surprise that generation Xers grow up with no work ethic and a feeling of entitlement, when they have been indoctrinated with this kind of skewed moral framework? The values expressed in the original Mad Max films are completely alien to them, and I'm not optimistic that they'll come through at all.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
I wonder how much Elijah Wood will make in 10 years make to star in Lord of the Rings 4...
Gonna disagree with me eh?
:p
That's it... 2 men enter, 1 man leave
me and you buddy
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-Xenocrates
As long as Kevin Costner isn't starring in it, it'll make money.
He makes it to the shore just as Kevin Costner steps ashore from his catamaran.
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Mel will be driving a beat up station wagon, with the right turn signel flashing, 20 miles an hour under the speed limit while looking for an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Just wait till some crappy band steals your nic.
and as long as Kennedy shoots the films in Australia, enough of the Australian culture, with it's swaggering, hard drinking, tough individualistic nature that show in Mad Max I and II, will flavor Mad Max IV so that it can avoid the worst excesses of the namby-pamby PC culture we live in.
True, the Aussie have had to turn in their guns, and since the Olympics in Sydney they can no longer beat and kill the blackfellas with impunity, but they're still just about the most macho sorts on earth.
So, yes, I have high hopes for this sequel, and as a devoted Mad MAx fan, you can bet that once it's been shot, I will stay up all night scouring WinMX, edonkey and Kazaa for the divx to download.
he sure looks old for his age. in close-ups he reminds me of the cigarette man.
While I'd love to see a good new movie, and I hope that the script really is as polished as everyone attached is claiming, I get the feeling that the best move is to walk away.
Of course, as soon as I turn to leave, I'll catch a crossbow bolt through the head by some mohawked buy hissing at me.
"This is your world. These are your people. You can live for yourself today, or help build tomorrow for everyone."
At $25m/movie....aren't we getting close to the stage where it's cheaper to have Colbians kidnap the star, steal their DNA, and for underground Japanese cloning labs to clone said star? ;-)
Hold on....I just gave away the plot for Mel Gibson's NEXT movie!!!
-psy
Yeah, and he shoots Costner in the head with his shotgun pistol! I'd pay to see that!
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Dark Helmet:
How can there be a cassette of Spaceballs: The Movie? We're still in the middle of making it!
Col. Sandurz:
That's true, sir. But, there's been a new breakthrough in home video marketing.
Dark Helmet:
There has?
Col. Sandurz:
Yes. Instant cassettes. They're out in stores before the movie is finished.
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This is what the actualy article says about the script:
"This is the most exhaustively prepared movie I have ever been associated with," said Hutch Parker, president of production at Twentieth Century Fox. "The script is as ready as they come."
I can imagine the conversation:
"So how does the script look?"
"It's exhaustively prepared."
"Is it good?"
"It's as ready as they come!"
"oh...great."
Its actually, "furry road" and the plot involves an aging warrior who mows down small rodents on an abandoned interstate with his flamethrowing wheel chair in order to provide food to the starving survivors of the apocalypse.
the real evil is not what people think - its how people think
Taking bets now.
um news.google.com They have entered the world of journalism. Well not really, its just a really cool gizmo that leeches news off other sites, kinda like slashdot, except automated, and with less dupes.
Why not fork?
In an interview Mel and Danny proclaimed "We're not to old for this shit!"
woo-hoo! new mad max film. it would be a good idea to study it to learn how to live after bush starts a nuclear holocaust...
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I think the plots are more like this:
1. Mad Max = Max chased in his car
2. Road Warrior = Max chased in his truck
3. Thunderdome = Max chased in his train
4. New movie = Max chased in his Rolls Royce
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
I heard that in his contract on the set everyone is to refer to him as "Lord Humongous."
Beyond Thunderdome was the easily the best Mad Max film. Hell, it's probably in the top 5 sf films of all time. Yep, 2001, Star Wars, Thunderdome, that sounds about right.
You had fake leather? You were lucky! When I was a lad, we had to paint our bodies with hot sulfurous pitch if we wanted to even LOOK like we wore fake leather in a movie!
How can we afford to ever sleep
So sound again
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Actually, very few make money, in some magic way they all just barely break even...
Wax-Museum Fire Results In Hundreds Of New Danny DeVito Statues
Max discovers an old crate of Viagra underneath some rubble, and heads back to Barter Town's red light district in a hurry.
Patriot - American challenges the English Braveheart - Scottish challenges the English MadMax4 - Auzzies challenge the English?????
C'mon people! What is this "25 million" and "$25,000,000.00" stuff I'm seeing here? This is News for Nerds for chrissake! Mel's salary will be $2.5e7. Get it right. :)
You're no nerd. $25 million should be written as 2ln(5000)/ln(2), or about 2^(24.5754).
Aah, but you're discounting the mystical "overheads". These fantastic creatures consume all of a films would-be profits, and as a result the poor filmcompany has to go to all the people who were promised a cut and tell them the sad news - they won't be paid after all.
...to play the part of the aging pop singer lady hoping to stage a come-back? Maybe, Whitney Houston? She's not quite old enough, but she may need the job (so long as it pays $730k).
Knight Rider is king of the heap, sorry
"Apparently the script has been in the works for 3 years and is highly polished"
I have read childrens books to my four year old that have had more words than the first three movies combined. What can there be to polish?
oh god please no, no no no nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
no it isn't, it's WWIII in space, with America as the Empire and NYC as the Death Star. Jedi = Islam. Obi Wan = Osama Bin Laden.
That was classic intercourse!
You... You have an airplane.
I do?
The Movie execs!
Or Hilary Rosen, if they're not around.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
This'll be just like Terminator 3...
.... "Ach, my back!"
Instead of "I'll be back."
I believe Kraftwerk did this a few decades ago... They were an entirely electronic band, and would give "live" performances with just automatons on stage. Good Stuff!!
:-(
"I am the operator / with my pocket calculator"
oops, I am indicating my age...
Mad Max - Segway Warrior
:-D )
Opening scene - Max "roaring" down the road on his super-charged Segway surrounded by hoards of baddies. We see Max being hit multiple times, reeling from the shock of each blow, but he just keeps going.
Baddie #1 - Curse that Segway, if we could just knock Max down we'd be able to ravage the orphanage and take over that oil refinery...
(You can take it from there though I recommend that you don't.
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