Mad Max 4

Post by **Anklecranker** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:12 pm

With $104 in Fox's budget you can be sure of one thing. MM4 will have promotion like no other.

From a business standpoint, when $104 million is on the line ,they will have the marketing guys hard at work to make this one of the biggest movies of all time. The scrpt must be fantastic. The storyline and characters must be fully developed. I'm sure George Miller has an inner circle of colleages who advise him on what is needed. Cars , chases, bad guys, honor, and Max saving the world in his pensive, reluctant way.

You can bet your last can of gazzoline they have been on this site more than once......watching ....listening and waiting until they had good product to show.

Am I skeptical about the new direction? No, and I have 104,000, 000 reasons why.

Post by **Uncle Entity** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 7:01 pm

RANDY,

As always, you're the BEST. Fukk, man, why don't you write me anymore? Look for my merry christmas WISHES !!!!!!!!!!

I "sense" a new type of vehicle for MM4 Australian motherfukkers. And I "sense" a new bad ass car for our ill-fated hero.

Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 7:16 pm

God dammit, I'm starting to realize the awesomeness of the situation. This is something I've been wait at least 15 years for. Anklecranker summed up exactly how I feel. There's so many reasons the movie will kick ass. I can't wait for the first real preview or somekinda set pictures. The next couple years are gonna be great.

Post by **Anklecranker** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 7:27 pm

From the Herald.................

Mad Max changes address

12dec02

FIRST he dared to go Beyond Thunderdome. Now Mad Max is daring to leave Australia.

The much-anticipated fourth film in George Miller's post-apocalyptic series, starring Mel Gibson, is expected to be filmed in Namibia, not Australia.

A combination of suitable desert locations, lack of Australian studio space and financial incentives will lure the $200 million plus production to the southern African nation.

Representatives for Gibson's production company, Icon, and Miller, who directed the three earlier Mad Max films in Australia, declined to comment.

Twentieth Century Fox also declined to comment but yesterday confirmed Gibson's $50 million salary and a May start date.

http://adserver.news.com.au/click.ng/Pa ... &pagepos=1

The film, called Fury Road, will again feature Mad Max in the lawless, futuristic outback.

Miller is believed to have worked for at least three years on the script, after his last successes with the two Babe films.

While no cast beyond Gibson have been confirmed, an overseas shoot is all but confirmed.

South Africa, with its new studio space and aggressive selling, is a new competitor to Australia for such large US-financed productions.

Sydney's studios will be taken by the sixth Star Wars film until 2004 and the Warner Gold Coast studio is also booked solidly.

Post by **Uncle Entity** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 7:57 pm

It's a rumour! Those Aussie reporters should change their job enployment! It was an old rumour based on seminal Miller's declarations... I doubt MEL would move in South-Africa, and I doubt MIller will film the movie there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, Ankle?

Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 8:15 pm

They're just combing a 2 year rumor with what was officially announced the other day. And I hope nobody gets confused between the American $ and Australian one. Reporters tend to mix up the numbers.

Post by **Anklecranker** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 9:27 pm

Tiziano,

Been mailing you at [url]mailto:[email protected][/url]

Post by **The US Bloke** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 9:34 pm

INTCEPBUILDER! I'm lost!!

What do you mean "MAX didn't show up in Thunderdome"??

I'm sure I'm just missing out on something...

Post by **Foxtrot X-Ray** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 10:21 pm

Quote: Originally posted by The US Bloke on 12 December 2002

INTCEPBUILDER! I'm lost!!

What do you mean "MAX didn't show up in Thunderdome"??

I'm sure I'm just missing out on something...

He's just a tiny bit confused.

He apparantly thinks the CAR is Max.

OR rather, WAS Max. The car is Max, and was destroyed in MM2/RW, therefore "Max" died and was not in the third movie.

Obviously I'm just poking a bit of fun, but I don't fully understand his viewpoint on this either.

Yes, there WAS a change in the character Max (The real one, not the car) throughout the three films.

The Max we see in Thunderdome is a Logical progression of the man we saw in Road Warrior & Mad Max.

Twenty Years WILL change a man.

TEN years is more than enough time to make drastic changes in a man's behavior.

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Post by **Intceptbuilder** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 10:32 pm

Hi US Bloke..

Refering to Thunderdome and Max's no show...... Ummm .. like the Lone Ranger with out Silver.

Batman with out the Batmobile.

Stasky with out the Torino.

Dirty Harry with out a Magnum.

Wogggggahhh.. there it is .. that is the analogy I wanted ... Dirty Harry with out the Magnum, That is what the Interceptor was .... a weapon.

Into a world where speed and mobility meant freedom and survival.... arose Max.....the moral man with the "Gun car" in a dying world.

[/font]Max and the Interceptor were a buddy movie type link, part of the whole, yin-yang if you like at least for one and a half movies that was the case.

Having said that I am a bit more interested in this 4th adventure than I was yesterday, the hype is advancing a bit in Australia with radio and TV announcements that state more or less that "Australia's last hero will return".

I am still skeptical, but it is good that at last the time has arrived to honor with a 100,000,000 dollar budget, films that we have enjoyed for so long.

I am now at least very interested to see just what they can do.

I hope Miller and Gibson have seen "Waterworld", and learnt that a budget alone is not a savior.[/font]

Cheers

Gordon[/font]