I thought it was established emphatically that we didnt need another hero. Lying bastards.

I'll watch. Even after the last one...I'll watch.

If I had any money left I'd totes bet the farm that Gerard Butler will be cast as Max.

Gerard Butler is a good choice for the role, depending on whether the story takes place in between Mad Max and Road Warrior, or after Thunderdome.

There is currently some argument on another board as to whether Mel Gibson will show up or not. He's too old to play Max in a direct sequel to Thunderdome, and it would defeat the purpose of an action film to use him in a present-time adventure (just as Harrison Ford's age defeated him in Crystal Skull, along with the egregious script).

This could turn out to be a Good Thing. Or maybe Not.

Meh. Who cares?

"Fury Road" could be a Springsteen song, but it strikes me more like the title of a 90's Sega Genesis game that involves race cars and weapons of some variety.

LOL, maybe it's a lost outtake of "Thunder Road." :-D

Am I to assume that Mel is signed on for this?

Uhmm...what did he say? Get to the point man! Can't be hard to make a better movie than Beyond Thunderdome. That was as much suckage as the series will ever need.

Maybe Gibson's bankrolling it on the condition that the storyline is Max vs. "the Jews." A man can dream.

Seriously though, I had jury duty a few months ago and one of the movies they showed in the waiting rooms was "Happy Feet." Because I'm a reader, I stuck to the quiet room where the TVs were silenced. You haven't seen creepy until you've seen "Happy Feet" with no sound. The birds and their dead beady eyes look downright malevolent.

Who run Bartertown? Who... run... Bartertown?

Just a thought, but old Max (Gibson) passing his car, shotgun, etc on to...'New Max'. (to be played by ??)

I know that Gibson is kind of insane/blackballed from making movies, but why is there a problem with him playing Max? Is he overly ancient? He's in early 50's, right? He's not nearly as old as Ford was during Crystal Skull.

Incidentally, Thunder Road is the 2nd finest pop song of the last half-century. There needs to be more Springsteen in our post-apocalyptic thrillers.

Just get Mel Gibson to do the opening voice over narration.

And Bruce Spence has to appears an entirely new character who pilots something.

The first two movies are good, the second actually a classic, the third...too light hearted, but since it's about Max finding something to care about again...I let it slide somewhat...I speaks well of it, when I does tha tell.

Weren't they supposed to make this movie about five years ago, before everything went to shit? I remember reading Gibson was ready to go, they had sets built in Africa, but then terrorists or something threatened the production and it stopped. I was still looking forward to it then; Mad Max 2 is one of the finest action films ever made and just a chance to go back into that whole storyline would've been worth the effort. But sometimes you just can't go home again. As long as they don't mess it all up with idiot casting, I'll still look forward to it.

I cut Miller a bit of slack, you know his partner in crime on the first two Max films passed away before they made the third one, and Miller had to be coaxed into doing it at all, and said his heart wasn't in it without George Kennedy.

I don't care, I love those movies, even the 3rd one, which on a recent viewing I found to be better than I had remembered. It's actually pretty nicely layered and is a real redemption story for Max.

Maybe Mel will be in it for just a few minutes turing the reigns over to a son or adopted son.

Why must you resort to saying "natch"?

I just hope you fuckers are remembering the Nightrider when you look at the night sky...

I like Thunderdome. It's kinda better than the rather blah revenge movie that was the orignal Mad Max, before somebody did a lot of acid and decided to turn it into a post apocalyptic bondage fetish franchise.

Sure, I can see Mel working on this one, but you're forgetting the most important weapon in the filmmaker's arsenal - the "Flashback" sequence.

Being of the age when Road Warrior was one of the seminal movies of my generation (wow - is that saying something?), I have to say that if nothing else at least it's George Miller putting it together. It's not like the Batman series where everybody and their brother gets a shot, the man who directed the previous three is on board already.

And I've been to Wellington, NZ, and I don't know what the hell he's talking about. LOL

For some reason I can't help but think Bruce Bana for Max, especially since he's promoting that doco Love the Beast about his muscle car. Likelihood is they'll raid NIDA for a new crop of actors they can save some money on.