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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 wonder if they will make any money.
According to the article they are going to spend about 180 mil to make MM4, and MM1,2,3 combined made less than 70 mil.
But then again, these days is seems like all you need ia a hot chick and some special effects to rake it in - plot optional.
- Original director from first film
- Big budget
- A script that's been in the works for years
- Beloved franchise
- Original actors where possible
Sounds like it can't go wrong, right?Can you say The Phantom Menace?
Schnapple
With the first one made in 1979, that means mel gibson will be what, 25 yrs or so older in this one. Now I realize he's only going to be 47 this coming yr, but still, it strikes me the same as making a new Indiana Jones movie at this point. It's a sequel to a movie (or series of movies) I liked a lot, but is the actor too old to portray the character? I don't want to think of Indiana Jones or Mad Max as older -- they're the guys in the originals, characters like that don't age. It's why they switch James Bond actors. You don't want to see James Bond realistically portrayed as a 60 yr old spy. He's a 30+ yr old guy kicking ass and sleeping with hot women.
Highly Polished... yea, I know what that means. It means a committee has been hard at work f***ing up what was probably a pretty good script.
A couple of recent script-by-committee disasters include "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Batman and Robin", and "The Scorpion King". Of course having one person in full control of the script isn't necessarily a good thing either as Mr. Lucas has so painfully pointed out.
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--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
Same thing with the new Terminator movie... It seems to me that Hollywood is scrambling for new ideas since their current batch of writers have run out. Meanwhile, some strange Kiwi's down south had the novel concept (no pun intended) of taking a famous piece of literature, adding massive amounts of love and care, and a heavy dose of creativity and integrity (both severely lacking in Hollywood) to make what looks to be a truly spectacular set of films on a relatively low budget ($70 million per film). Is anyone in Hollywood taking notes? If they are, are they taking the right notes? (I expect to see a slew of terrible fantasy clones released in the coming years until Hollywood once again learns the wrong lesson that fantasy films don't work...*sigh*)
Hollywood today seems to be only capable of rehashing old ideas without any real creative imagination. I do not doubt that this creativity exists, but for some reason it is not allowed to thrive. Why is Lord of the Rings successful? There was very little involvement from the high level, Hollywood executives. They let the creative people be creative with plenty of financial backing and time to truly let them imaginations fly. It was something new and distinctive.
Mad Max IV? When will Hollywood realize that what they need is true creativity. Throwing massive amounts of money at an old, fading idea does not equate to a great movie.
Someday I'll think up a good sig...
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This should be modded up. This was the first thing I thought about reading this article, there is no Google News in terms of reporting stories. Sure you can mention that they pointed you to the story but saying that something is acording to them is wrong.
It has been said on Slashdot many times that Google should not be held responsible for what it links to (the whole Church of Scientology debate) but it then should also not credit for someone else's reporting. It is only the way it should be that you either always are responsible for links or you never are.
You must be a scientist type, then. An engineer would say 25.7M (Example, for ten megapascals an engineer writes 10 MPa, not 1.0E7 Pa)
Bah, Road Warrior was a 2 hour fight scene; MM3 was a cinematic, multidimensional view of the postapocalypse. And Star Wars is scifi; not hard scifi, but scifi.
When you begin to find cartoon squirrels attractive, maybe you should take that as a sign that you REALLY need to get out more often!
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How about $1Million? Would it REALLY fucking cramp Mel's style? Or Tom Cruise's?
Why are you blaming the actors? What are they supposed to do, say "No thanks, that's too much money"?
If Mel Gibson can attract enough people to the movie to make that much money, who should get the money?
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.