I take the good with the bad here. Sometimes I read an article and it makes me excited AND annoyed all at the same time. This is exactly how I feel about Miller announcing that he wants to do a Mad Max 4.
Speaking to Australian reporters, director George Miller confessed that he hopes to begin on a fourth Mad Max movie now that he finished his dream of animating dancing penguins. Though Mel Gibson played the title role in the original Max Max and its sequels, The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome, Miller said he hoped to get a new young lead to take over the project since Gibson now seems more interested in directing, drunk driving, and finishing the work of Hitler.
Looks like this reporter Godwin’d themselves out of a good one liner. If he bothered to check IMDB.com he might have noticed Mel is still acting.
Its bad enough that he hopes to make another Mad Max movie and doesn’t even consider Mel Gibson for the role. Fair enough. He wants to go his own way with it. He wrote it, he can do that. Start a new story in the same setting with a different character. But he needs to hitch a ride on the fame of the original series, so he will call it Mad Max even though the character wont be there.
But that wasn’t enough. Instead of announcing that you want to expand on the world you wrote that Mad Max lived in, and call it something else, you have to take shots at the very actor who made the series a success to begin with! Yes, he is a flawed man and Miller is proving to be even less a man for taking this shot.
Really Classy. Nothing like a little trendy hate crime propaganda to make people really want to see your movie.
I would LOVE to hear Mel’s response to this.
