Mad Max Serie

[Xin]

Gibson 'makes Mad Max return'

Mel Gibson is to return as apocalyptic road warrior Mad Max in a role that could make him $25m (£16.3m), according to reports.
Gibson, who first starred in the role in 1979, has announced he will sign up for a fourth film, to go into production in Australia next May.
It will be called Fury Road, and has a budget of $104m (£67.9m), produced by 20th Century Fox, according to trade daily Variety.
The last Mad Max film was Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which was in 1985. It also starred Tina Turner.
The Mad Max franchise made Gibson, until then a little-known Australian actor, an international star.
The films starred Gibson as a police officer in post-apocalyptic Australia
Mad Max is the tale of a law enforcement officer, "Mad" Max Rockatansky, who battles motorcycle gangs in a post-nuclear apocalypse Australia.
The following two films, The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome were big-budget Hollywood action movies.
The three Mad Max films grossed $69m (£46m) in the US.
The Fury Road script has been written by George Miller, who wrote and directed the first three films.
According to Variety, Miller has been working on the script for the last three years.

Box office favourite

No details were given about the film, other than it will see Mad Max return to the post-nuclear Australian outback.
Gibson, 49, returns to the role after a year which has seen him return as one of the biggest box office draws in Hollywood.
He received a $25m pay cheque two years ago for his leading role in the American War of Independence drama The Patriot.
He starred in M Night Shyamalan's Signs, as a troubled preacher whose farm is afflicted by mysterious crop circles.
The film took over $60m (£40m) in its first three days in the US.
Gibson is also starring in a Hollywood remake of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, which will be shown at next month's Sundance film festival.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2561391.stm

[Niels Simons]

haal nu de 3 mad max films voor 23,8 euro inc btw bij de makro!

3 best buy vor prijs van 2...

niels

[Gabriel B.]

Al zal ik eerder een andere nemen dan "Beyond Thunderdome".

Deel 1 & 2 waren pretentieloze actie maar ik heb geen idee wat ik van deel 3 moet maken.
Uit verschillende bronnen op het internet kan ik echter opmaken dat meerdere filmrecensenten lijnrecht egenover elkaar staan over deze film.

[Xin]

Mel Gibson keert terug als Mad Max

LOS ANGELES (ANP) - Mel Gibson keert voor bijna 25 miljoen dollar (circa 25 miljoen euro) voor de vierde keer terug als Mad Max. Dat meldde het Amerikaanse vakblad Daily Variety dinsdag.

De film draagt de naam Fury Road en de opnames beginnen volgend jaar mei in Australië. Filmmaatschappij Twentieth Century Fox realiseert de film, die wordt geregisseerd door George Miller.

Miller heeft de afgelopen drie jaar aan het script gewerkt en regisseerde de drie eerdere afleveringen ook al. Van de nieuwe film is alleen bekend dat Mad Max het opnieuw in het postapocalyptische Australië zal opnemen tegen verscheidene bendes.

De eerste Mad Max zag het licht in 1979. Deel twee volgde in 1981, terwijl deel drie in 1985 in de bioscoop kwam. Volgens Daily Variety bracht de trilogie niet meer dan 69 miljoen dollar op.

De 46-jarige Gibson was dit jaar te zien in de film Signs. Hij werd naast de Mad Max-serie vooral bekend door zijn rol in Lethal Weapon en Oscar-winnaar Braveheart

http://www.zonnet.nl/content/0,2430,site_id-24-menu_id-460-record_id-399023,00.html

[Philippe]

Ben erg benieuwd naar deze film. Hopelijk wordt dit een stevige actieknaller die terug aansluit met de actie en het no-nonsense verhaal van deel 1.

[The Scratcher]

Deze films hebben mij nooit kunnen bekoren...tja :o

[DaLexuz]

heerlijke films
op deel 3 na dan
ik ben erg benieuwd

[Xin]

Gibson to the "Max" Again

After all these years, Mel Gibson is ready to go beyond Thunderdome. The Signs star has signed a $25 million deal to reprise his iconic Mad Max character for Fury Road, the fourth installment in director George Miller's post-apocalyptic franchise, according to Daily Variety. Miller, who wrote and directed the first three flicks, has been working on the script to the sequel for more than three years now.

Gibson, 46, began serious talks about reprising the role that made him famous 10 months ago. Intrigued by Miller's script, Gibson staged a series of readings over the summer. Things went so well, that he signed on to star. He'll also produce the flick through his Icon Productions in tandem with 20th Century Fox, which will distribute Fury Road.

No word on the plot--it's reportedly a closely guarded secret--though no doubt it will feature Max, the crazed ex-cop-turned lone-wolf wanderer, dispensing vigilante justice to assorted murderous biker thugs in a post-nuclear wasteland.

Fox has been actively looking for another big event picture to fill the void left when the third and final prequel in the Star Wars franchise is released into 2003. (The studio has also reportedly approached 47-year-old Bruce Willis (news) about doing a proposed Die Hard 4.)

Fury Road will mark Miller's first foray with Fox. The director previously worked with Universal on his 1992 feature Lorenzo's Oil and 1995's Oscar-nominated Babe. His last stint in the director's chair was 1998's Babe: Pig in the City, which was decidedly darker than the original and, despite favorable reviews, tanked at the box office.

The original Mad Max was released in 1979 and launched Gibson's career as an international movie star. But it wasn't until 1981's The Road Warrior that Gibson and his character became household names in the States. The third installment, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, followed in 1985. Unlike Gibson's other franchise, the massively successful Lethal Weapon trilogy, the Mad Max series has played to more of a cult audience, with all three films generating a total of just $69 million in U.S. ticket sales. But the folks at Fox think the aging Gibson's can jumpstart the franchise and make the next Max a legitmate blockbuster.

"There are so few roles that define 'big screen action hero' and this is one of them," Hutch Parker, 20th Century Fox's president of production, tells Variety. "This is an event movie, and we know how to market event movies. It's Max the way you want to see him."

Besides, Gibson doesn't seem as rickety as some of his other action hero contemporaries, like Harrison Ford (news), who, at 60, is limping toward a fourth Indiana Jones flick, or 56-year-old Sylvester Stallone (news), who's reportedly working on a script for a third sequel to Rambo. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger (news) at 55 seems a little long in the tooth for his upcoming killer robot turn in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, due out next summer.
Fury Road, meanwhile, is expected to start shooting in Australia next May and will likely hit theaters in 2004.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/eo/20021210/en_movies_eo/10956

[Rogier Burghout]

Alleen deel 1 en 2 vond ik echt goed, omdat deze twee redelijk op elkaar aansloten. Deel 3 vind ik toch iets losstaander van de eerste twee. Voor de fans: op regio 1 is een mooie SE van het eerste deel beschikbaar.

[Tremor]

Hoe oud is ie nu?
In het eerste artikel 49 en in het laatste 46.

[Xin]

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Gibson,+Mel

Mel is dus 46 jaar en bijna 47.

[zerrax]

Als je echt MAD MAX wilt zien zoals hij bedoeld was moet je
de regio 4 DTS versie aanschaffen!
Deze heeft de orginele "ausie" voice soundtrack
je weet niet wat je hoort!
het is gewoon jammer dat de amerikanen dit gewoon hebben gedubt...waar halen ze het lef toch vandaan...

De regio 4 DVDhttp://www.ezydvd.com.au/g/i/p/220969.jpg (regio 4 DTS)

[Dennis Kuijper]

Ik heb vandeweek die trilogy box gekocht,wat me verbaasd is dat er bij deze films geen extra,s zitten.Kan me niet voorstellen dat er geen extra,s voor deze films zijn.Zouden hier ook S.E. edities van komen,los of in een box?

[Patrick Deckard]

iemand hier al iets over gehoord? dus eventuele SE versies van de films?

[rogue]

iemand hier al iets over gehoord? dus eventuele SE versies van de films?
Die kan je misschien wel verwachten op blu-ray (Road Warrior is al uit).