Mad Max Rides Again

Posted on October 27, 2007

Moviehole reports the film Mad Max 4: Fury Road is back on track. But don't panic, Mel Gibson won't be reprising his role. Instead a younger actor will take center stage.

It's production quarters re-opened at Fox Studios in Sydney this week. One of Moviehole's longest - not as in length (well not that we know of) but in terms of how good he has been to us over the years (setting up set visits.. basically giving us access to things we normally couldn't have gotten) - friends called today from the lot to let us know that Fury Road has finally got a greenlight, with pre-production commencing immediately.
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Our colleague has discovered that "Kennedy Miller is dancing with VFX and animation houses for both Mad Max 4 and Happy Feet 2. As far as I know the plan is to do all the animation for Happy Feet 2 in Australia, but not necessarily at Animal Logic (who did the first one). I'd guess that Mad Max 4 will be shot in Namibia as per the original plans (blown out by the Iraq invasion). In terms of release time - it took 4 years to make the original Happy Feet."

So Mad Max rides again, eh? Once upon a time we would have been thrilled about this news. But somehow Mel has become less appealing an an actor over time. His off-screen antics have bled over into his professional life, we suppose. And after Waterworld, we got kind of weary of the whole post-apocalyptic genre. Unless it had vampires in it, of course. Or mutants. Mutants are always good.

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