Charlize Theron to travel Mad Max's Fury Road Charlize Theron will star in the fourth outing of the Max Max franchise - Fury Road - alongside Brit thesp Tom Hardy of Black Hawk Down fame. George Miller, who launched Mel Gibson to stardom with the original 1979 Max Max, and went on to helm The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome, will direct the movie from his own …
The original films look very badly dated and low budget now. They were good for their time.
I just hope they don't do what they do with other recent remakes and make a satirical version of it making fun of the original. That would be really lame.
Oh yeah and I'm sure we can all guarantee that in this version the disaster that causes the world to change will be global warming *Yawn!*
Your foster parents are dead Max, huh?
Don't ya just love old people coming back to action roles that were just about convincing when they were 30-something, but can be nothing but a silly joke once 50 hits?
I'm looking at you Bruce Willis...hey don't snigger at the back Stallone, you're the worst of the lot of them...
Don't do it Mel. I can see it now... "Max writes a strongly worded letter to the biker gangs, this'll have them quivering in their soiled boots!"
WHAT security concerns? No terrorist even knows WHERE Namibia is (except the old retired 'freedom fightahs' who now all sit in the Namibian Parliament).
The country could use some extra FOREX, and places like the Areva desalination plant, Wlotzkas Baken, Walvis Bay and the Skeleton Coast would be ideal as film sets. ;-)
As for the "Benoni poppie" in the movie... YES PLEASE!!
Theron as a road warrior? There Is A God. The soldier on the 'city' wall in Mad Max II (the blonde) will live forever in my heart, but MM IV, it it's any good and not unbelievably boring, as the two Tomb-raiders were (note to scriptwriter: must have a compelling story), will be the ultimate.
General failure of women-as-hero films: a Strong Man/sidekick does a lot of the heavy lifting, they give her a child character (see Alien II) so she can show her feminine side and have a reason to fight (because evil is never enough reason for a girl apparently), or they throw in love to give her depth. Ms Theron, just kick butt and tote heavy, heavy weaponry and fight the good cinematic fight: it's all we ask of you.
Stars Mel Gibson as a grumpy old git in a zimmer frame in a post-apocalyptic nursing home and Charlize Theron as his nurse, struggling to understand why he continuously spits out anti-semitic nonsense while driving his wheelchair under the influence.
Hm... I think I will give it a miss.
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the old films look so very dated
it'd be cool to see one with modern special fx
but it has to be all about the battles on the Road.
the first one's a brilliant classic
the 2nd is great, the finale battle with the tanker is ace, but it's criminal that his Interceptor gets toasted before that
and the 3rd, if he's not chugging along in a train he's trekking through the desert finding quicksand or upto his pelvis in pigsh!t
what we want to see is a heavily modified 1973 Ford XB Falcon Hardtop burning along endless barren roadways, with either Max or his protege at the wheel dispensing much needed justice in a world gone to hell
i fear what we'll get is something heavily sponsored by Honda where all the scum of the post-apocalyptic wasteland are seen to be car-pooling in their environmentally freindly hydrogen powered vehicles
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