First Official Look + Images for Mad Max: Fury Road!

[kennerado]

What you need to remember is this is a Comic Con Exclusive poster, its not the theatrical poster for the film...

[Stamper]

The tagline is very much The Dark Knight. The logo seems to be the one from the Mad Max trilogy Blu-ray set.

Warner is involved so it's not surprising the same marketing team doing the posters and the DVDs must have done this hack job in a few minutes.

I hope the real poster is more Mad Max and less Batman marketing team.

[BRC1974]

IMDB now have it for their Fury Road cover
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/

[DGSimo]

I think the poster is fine for what it is, but I dislike most current movie posters anyway. I'm sure the tagline will make sense when we see the film.

As far as nostalgia goes, I'll have none of that, thanks. I don't need to see what's come before done again. I want to see something new, even if it's different. I have MM, I have RW. I can watch them whenever I want. Whatever the new movie is, it can't take away from the quality, or love I have for those films.

I'm really surprised that people can't get their heads arounds a reboot. It's simple. It's just another telling of the same story. That's all. Let's say you were at a legendary party in college. Ten years layer one friend tells a story about that night. Ten years later another friend tells a story about that night. The story will be different, but essentially the same. Easy.

And I think it's the only way that MM FR would make sense. The most important character moment in all three films is when Max decides to help the people at the refinery. He decides to step back into the world and care about something again. He is reborn. Essentially, after that, he's not Mad anymore. Just Max. When he helped the kids in BT, it was expected, we knew that was his thing now. That's why that movie doesn't resonate emotionally.

So if Miller made a MM4 that continued from TD, Max would just about be a normal guy again. He's been roaming the wasteland and helping people since. There's no drama there.

So Miller goes back the the most important part. I'm assuming that FR shows Max as a wandering, selfish badass who eventually makes a choice to help others. That's a story with drama.

As far as the design of the new film goes, and how people think it's over the top and more fantastical? Well, perhaps it is. As fans of this series we must remember that both RW and BT are told in the past tense be people who were young when the events happened. The story is told through the eyes of that person. So maybe the robot arms looks too good, but maybe that's how it was remembered by the story teller. Have you ever retuned to a place from your childhood and been underwhelmed by what it was really like? These are tricky films, they are no straight forward.

Lastly, I also think that the design (which I love) looks like it comes from today, not 30 years ago. The new film must imagine an apocalypse of the future of today, not of the 1980's. I see all the body manipulation/mutilation as a very logical progression of what goes on today. That's stuff was just not happening in the 80s on the level it is today. Are the FR cars too over designed? Sure. But today we live in a culture of image. So if you take that to it's farthest conclusion, you might end up with gangs who are very image conscious.

I'm really looking forward to this film. I'm totally glad it has been rebooted. I'm glad Miller is making it. I'm glad it was storyboarded first, because I'm hoping it's an insanely visual film with the least dialog possible.

And lastly, the word on the street is GOOD. The screenings have gone well.

I can't f*cking wait to punch it in the guts and blast down Fury Road.

Just because I agree with a lot of what you're saying.

Tomorrow guys!!

[DGSimo]

Biggest version of the poster I found thus far.

Funny, all this talk about the poster but I can't recall anyone bringing up the device on his back...??

[smegma crazy2]

Biggest version of the poster I found thus far.

Funny, all this talk about the poster but I can't recall anyone bringing up the device on his back...??

yeah wonder what it is.. also hope that little can just next to the bed roll is a can of dinki di

[MachRider]

Most likely it's a stripped down hydration device, a.k.a camelback. Standard piece of kit for desert infantry.

[biolumen]

Soooo.....Immortan Joe is wearing a Dune-like Stillsuit?

http://www.duneinfo.com/arrakis/stillsuits

[DGSimo]

Could be based on more and more we know! I think Immortan Joe is the "war lord" of the Wasteland mostly because he has control of something more important than fuel or bullets....water.

You look at the other war tribes and each seems to serve and offer a specific function like Gasstown perhaps in control of fuel and the Bullet Farmer with ammo and weapons...these 2 tribes likely fall in line and under Joe's banner in exchange for their stuff the Citadel bargains and supplies water.

At least thats what I'm seeing but there obviously could be way more or different to it.

[seriz]

And I think it's the only way that MM FR would make sense. The most important character moment in all three films is when Max decides to help the people at the refinery. He decides to step back into the world and care about something again. He is reborn. Essentially, after that, he's not Mad anymore. Just Max. When he helped the kids in BT, it was expected, we knew that was his thing now. That's why that movie doesn't resonate emotionally.

This is very interesting, but I can't think that's here's the only story of Max. The third one failed for me mostly because it's the story of Bartertown and the story of the children's tribe. Not the story of Max anymore. Even if those stories could be better, people expected the story of Max. After losing everything in the first one, after he decided (maybe because he had no other choice) in the second one, there's a story in the third one, how he became some kind of messiah. There is an interesting story that could be told there. But somewhere it get lost in the middle of Crack in the Earth & Bartertown.
So i'm not sure that the story of MM2 is the only story... I don't think so, and i don't want to think so... I hope this is not the only one...

As far as the design of the new film goes, and how people think it's over the top and more fantastical? Well, perhaps it is. As fans of this series we must remember that both RW and BT are told in the past tense be people who were young when the events happened. The story is told through the eyes of that person. So maybe the robot arms looks too good, but maybe that's how it was remembered by the story teller. Have you ever retuned to a place from your childhood and been underwhelmed by what it was really like? These are tricky films, they are no straight forward.

100% agree. I was thinking that it could be a good and nice idea for a fan fiction : the real story of Mad Max 2, not seen and told by the kid, but the right story. Where Max, maybe, is not as good as we think... The kid saw Max like a hero. It can be fun to show Max as a lonely marauder and to re tell the story in a "bad" way...