Ol' Coyote wrote:I go to this thread hoping to see more news about "Wasteland" but instead i get treated to an argument contest.
Yeah, TBH I've been away for a bit and the forum is kinda hard going on a phone, but we'd already got to the point of it just being an argument (and it's devolved even further than that)
Back on topic - there's so many cool directions The Wasteland could take, I guess the speculation can't really be narrowed down ... that said, do people think that Miller will want to take it in a really new / weird direction, or something more retrospectively Mad Max, or maybe just try and re-create the feel of Fury Road? (hopefully not on that last one, because things that stay still too long tend to die)
Another article hinting Dr George is closer maybe to Furiosa???
Speaking with EW, Miller said that while he has an idea of what he wants to do in a Fury Road followup, he’s turning his attention to a different project before piecing together another Mad Max film:
“Yes, I have. And certainly having conversations about it. But I’m not sure if it’s the very next movie I want to do. I’ve got something a bit smaller before we go back out into the wasteland — something that’s contemporary that we can get through fairly quickly. And something with not too much technical difficulty. Something more performance-based and so on, just to clear the exhaust.”
After the rapturous reception Fury Road received, Tom Hardy is Mad Max now. And there will be more, right?
“Yeah, there’s gonna be more, totally. I mean, that’s the point — I gotta pick up the mantle and move forward. I’m now playing Max, yeah ... but Mel Gibson is Mad Max. So I’ve still got a lot of work to do.”
C'mon George let's make some concrete progress on the follow up! I'm glad that Hardy is so enthusiastic about a follow up though, i can't wait to see what else he and Goerge bring to the character.
Ol' Coyote wrote:Back on topic - there's so many cool directions The Wasteland could take, I guess the speculation can't really be narrowed down ... that said, do people think that Miller will want to take it in a really new / weird direction, or something more retrospectively Mad Max, or maybe just try and re-create the feel of Fury Road? (hopefully not on that last one, because things that stay still too long tend to die)
I have no idea where they will go. The world we were shown was so barren and empty that I don't know how you'd realistically portray more settlements. A prequel would be awesome. In fact anything would be awesome.
i'm sure they could figure something out. since there isnt much for oceans anymore it would make travelling aimlessly to what used to be other continents separated by water "easier". travelling weeks-months-years with out any direction and run into just about anything to make a movie worth watching.
i'd kind of like to see how japan looks - if it'd revert to feudal japan. what undiscovered/uncontacted indigenous tribes of the amazon would be handling the apocalypse - especially the ones that are currently on the brink of extinction. even places that werent habitable before like antarctica or the far north pole.
plus, we need that story on how max gets his interceptor back, repaired and on the road again.
Wednesday, January 06, 2016 - 11:00 PM
By Julia Lowrie Henderson
Fresh off the success of "Fury Road," writer and director George Miller has two more "Mad Max" scripts in the works already — largely because the lengthy delays on the last film gave him and fellow writer Nico Lathouris plenty of time to dive deep into the backstories of the characters. "Pretty soon we had what happened to Max after 'Fury Road,' what happened before, what happened to the other characters, how it evolved." Considering Miller is now 70 years old, and that it took 15 years to make "Fury Road," we wondered: what if he retires before all of his post-apocalyptic dreams make it to the big screen?
Unlike George Lucas, who now regrets handing off his Star Wars franchise, Miller says that he is absolutely willing to let another director take over the keys to the Mad Max kingdom. And he's genuinely excited about the crop of young directors he might get to choose from. "People are directing younger and younger, they're getting a real sense of cinema very, very early, and there's some great directors out there," he says. "You see films every day and you know it's a good film because you get excited by the possibility of cinema. You walk out of the movies thinking, 'Oh, anything's possible!'" Would he be willing to leave Mad Max in an up-and-coming director's hands? "Yeah, of course."
Listen to a bit of their conversation above — you can hear Kurt Andersen's full conversation with George Miller on next week's show.
To me that's not cause for concern. George is absolutely right, there are loads of fantastic directors out there who could deliver a wonderful Mad Max movie, ideally with George on as producer at least or story. Of course I totally want George to do another or even two more and I sincerely hope he will but I think there is plenty of scope for the character to live on under his guidance and in the hands of an exciting director of which there are many to choose from. I mean just for example can you imagine if Gareth Evans, director of The Raid and The Raid 2 made a Mad Max movie? Good lord the possibilities...
Well just the production, not counting pre or false starts, took Miller 3 constant years of non-stop hard work on Fury Road to get it on screens....and this 70 year old schooled all other action directors past and present. So while I understand the need for a younger generation of directors to possibly take over in the future...I fucking hate the idea.
I was never a "No Mel, No Max" but "No George? No Max!".
