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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.
I guess we know who run Bartertown.
This film will be about as good as number 3. Which was about as good as WaterWorld.
The low budget Mad Max 1 & 2 were great, even though 2 was over dubbed in American.
This is perhaps the coolest thing to ever happen!!
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enough to make it look as low budget as the first one? Paying Mel 25 million they may not have a choice! :-)
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"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.
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You mean according to Google News by way of CNN, by way of Reuters, don't ya?
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 read about the movie this morning on CNN, but I wasn't really that excited by it. The interesting part of the story arc has been exhausted, IMHO. I'm not exactly sure where this one will go, unless it is a rehash of the last two plots.
1. Mad Max = world going to hell
2. Road Warrior = world gone to hell
3. Thunderdome = World gone to hell, but redeeming itself
4. New movie = (?) Make money!
There is some overlap (Road Warrior had an inkling of redemption at the end, but it was more explicit in Thunderdome.
This may end up being a good action flick, but I am not seeing significant potential to do anything very new or exciting. I expect that, like Mel, we'll find out that the series is old and tired.
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Lots of petrified grits
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.
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I was tempted to agree with you, but actually dude is younger than you might think. He's only 46. Not like, say, Harrison Ford who is 60.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
- 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?
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Gonna disagree with me eh?
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That's it... 2 men enter, 1 man leave
me and you buddy
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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.
Mad Max Movies FAQ is a great link for all thing's Mad Max
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.
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.
-S
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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!
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Taking bets now.
The Road Warrior was my favorite movie from the first time i saw it (at the tender age of 5) up until "The Devil's Advocate" came out.
.au emailed me about it with lots of details and info while i was in college. There are clone mad max cars up for auction from time to time. Hopefully, when im old and loaded, i'll be able to pick up a perfect replica mad-max car, with a _working_ super charger that somehow makes that incredible whine when i engage the supercharger.
Nobody in kindergarten knew what the hell i was talking about if i asked them if they needed a guy to haul this rig.
To this day, i still want the car he had in mad max. That supercharger (albeit fake) was the coolest thing i've ever seen. And i want a gear lever with a red button on it that makes the most glorious sound i've ever heard. I had a whole section on my website about the mad max car and some guy in
I've actually asked a couple of tuners about that functionality, apparently it was pretty suspect. To run a boosted motor you need to run lower compression pistons to avoid predetonation, which means that when the SC was disengaged you'd be making shit for power , (although i guess technically you'd be using less gas, but the engine would be way less than optimally efficient). that makes it basically a tradeoff, theres probably some crossover point where you're actually getting better "bang for your gas" with the SC engaged than with it off.
Also, whowever invented the wrist-gauntlet mounted mini-crossbow is a diety.
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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?
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 heard that in his contract on the set everyone is to refer to him as "Lord Humongous."
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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?????
$25m = Can you name a single movie where the lead made that kind of $$ that was actually any good? I'd rather see Guy Pearce (Memento) or Bruce Campbell get paid $1m to play Max.
"highly polished" == script-writing by committee, always a good sign.
"script has been in the works for 3 years" = "The first draft sucked. The second draft sucked too. 37 drafts later, we still think it might suck, but then, we're the kind of jerks who will put a script through three years worth of rewrites before shooting a lame horse."
My suggestion for the title: "Mad Max Resurrection." I wanna be optimistic, but oh man this looks bad...
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"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?
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.
oh god please no, no no no nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Some years ago, a friend of mine dragged me backstage at a major rock concert during setup, and I was hearing how the show had two sets of equipment and props, leap-frogging each other from city to city, with one group in setup while another was in teardown. I was talking to one of the promoter's financial people, and said, "So why not have two sets of musicians. Cats has two road companies. Barnum and Bailey Circus has two units. There have been rock groups where, over time, all the members of the band were replaced. And nobody can see those guys on stage (this was in a football stadium, and before big-screen projectors) anyway. Your costs will go up by only 20-30%, but revenue will double." He looked very thoughtful for a while.
Someday, Clear Channel will probably pull this off.
The Movie execs!
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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!!
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