This Dude Is Apparently Mad Enough to Be Max
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?It seems like just Monday when I was showing a video of Mad Max director George Miller talking about the fourth Mad Max movie, and showing off the one car he’d apparently managed to have built for the production. But now — according to far more reputable sites that the ones I got that erroneous Brian Blessed as Odin rumor from (I was so young and naive then!) — Miller has his Max, and all that’s left to do is sign the contract. That Max, should he prove Mad enough, is Tom Hardy (shown on the right), whose previous nerd roles include Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis, Matthew in Sweeney Todd, and Handsome Bob in Rocknrolla. Since it was highly unlikely that Mel Gibson would want to star in another Mad Max movie, or that Miller would want the elderly, Jew-hating Gibson to star in another Mad Max movie either, I’m fine with this. Thoughts?
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.