New Mad Max Film 546
IceDiver writes "According to Google News Mel Gibson has signed up for a new Mad Max film "Fury Road". His salary? A whopping $25,000,000.00 Apparently the script has been in the works for 3 years and is highly polished. As a big fan of all 3 Mad Max films, I am looking forward to this one!
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25 million? (Score:5, Funny)
YYYEEEEESSSSSSSS! (Score:3, Funny)
"Two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd haul that tanker. You want to get out of here, you talk to me."
"Damage? You should see the damage, bronze! Metal damage! Brain damage! You listening bronze??!"
Ahh. I feel better now...
Yeah but will they be clever... (Score:5, Funny)
hmmmmm (Score:0, Funny)
2. ???
3. Profit (yeah right)
Coming soon! (Score:3, Funny)
Mad Max 4:Beyond the Nursing Home
Re:What? (Score:4, Funny)
I definately admit to it. To this day I'll occasionally hear the chanting in my head, "Two men enter! One man leave!"
Thankfully it's at completely inappropriate times like corporate meetings or trying to merge in traffic.
Chuck Firment
Geek Quote coming ... okay here it is .... (Score:3, Funny)
Of course, I say Remember where you are. This is Slashdot. Mod is listening, and will take the first man who posts.
We don't need another hero, hero, all we want is what's beyond Thunderdome!
According to Google News? (Score:5, Funny)
High Polish (Score:2, Funny)
3 years!?! That script must be so polished you have to shield your eyes from it.
Mel in a dog costume (Score:3, Funny)
MAD Max? (Score:4, Funny)
re: New Mad Max Film (Score:5, Funny)
And it's already available at sidewalk kiosks throughout China.
I don't know (Score:5, Funny)
By way of comparison, consider that "Popeye" had a character called Wimpy, who was addicted to hamburgers (a stand-in for alcohol in those more sensitive times). He was continuously broke, and to finance his habit was reduced to trying to con other characters out of their money ("I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"). His crippling addiction lost him everything, even his dignity. He was not a hero, but a character to be pitied for his devotion to something so artificial and his lack of work ethic.
Look at today's children's cartoons and you'll find nothing like Wimpy. Instead, you'll see obviously gay characters like Spongebob Squarepants, who epitomizes and glorifies chronic laziness and disrespect for authority. Even his name, "Squarepants," alludes to the angular uniforms of China's Red Army. Is it any surprise that generation Xers grow up with no work ethic and a feeling of entitlement, when they have been indoctrinated with this kind of skewed moral framework? The values expressed in the original Mad Max films are completely alien to them, and I'm not optimistic that they'll come through at all.
Re:profit ? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:sheesh (Score:5, Funny)
That's it... 2 men enter, 1 man leave
me and you buddy
Re:MAD Max? (Score:3, Funny)
What's in your wallet Mel?
Re:profit ? (Score:5, Funny)
In this episode... (Score:5, Funny)
MAD MAX Beyond Geritol (Score:5, Funny)
Mel will be driving a beat up station wagon, with the right turn signel flashing, 20 miles an hour under the speed limit while looking for an all-you-can-eat buffet.
How they got Mel to sign (Score:3, Funny)
Mel Gibson: "I'm in!"
sigh (Score:4, Funny)
We don't need another sequel
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Yes, but Australian culture is still different (Score:3, Funny)
True, the Aussie have had to turn in their guns, and since the Olympics in Sydney they can no longer beat and kill the blackfellas with impunity, but they're still just about the most macho sorts on earth.
So, yes, I have high hopes for this sequel, and as a devoted Mad MAx fan, you can bet that once it's been shot, I will stay up all night scouring WinMX, edonkey and Kazaa for the divx to download.
well, in that case (Score:4, Funny)
Walk away. Just walk away. (Score:3, Funny)
Of course, as soon as I turn to leave, I'll catch a crossbow bolt through the head by some mohawked buy hissing at me.
Cloning (Score:3, Funny)
Hold on....I just gave away the plot for Mel Gibson's NEXT movie!!!
-psy
AWRIGHT! (Score:3, Funny)
Re: New Mad Max Film (Score:5, Funny)
How can there be a cassette of Spaceballs: The Movie? We're still in the middle of making it!
Col. Sandurz:
That's true, sir. But, there's been a new breakthrough in home video marketing.
Dark Helmet:
There has?
Col. Sandurz:
Yes. Instant cassettes. They're out in stores before the movie is finished.
Highly polished? (Score:2, Funny)
"This is the most exhaustively prepared movie I have ever been associated with," said Hutch Parker, president of production at Twentieth Century Fox. "The script is as ready as they come."
I can imagine the conversation:
"So how does the script look?"
"It's exhaustively prepared."
"Is it good?"
"It's as ready as they come!"
"oh...great."
Re:More apocalyptic blather? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is going to worse? (Score:3, Funny)
Taking bets now.
Re:sheesh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:YYYEEEEESSSSSSSS! (Score:3, Funny)
"The chain in those handcuffs is high tensile steel. It'd take ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now. If you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes."
I hope Johnny The Kid shows up in MM4 with one foot missing. That would kick ass.
And yes, I DO need to get out more!
Re:In this episode... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MAD MAX Beyond Geritol (Score:3, Funny)
It'd be funnier if Mr. Gibson would drive around in a custom paint GMC G series van (a la A-TEAM) with trusty old Mr. T as his sidekick. Mad Max, Mr. T, helluva ebonics and a spiffy van. Can't go wrong.
Re:According to Google News??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:25 million? (Score:5, Funny)
C'mon people! What is this "25 million" and "$25,000,000.00" stuff I'm seeing here? This is News for Nerds for chrissake! Mel's salary will be $2.5e7. Get it right. :)
GMD
Danny Glover is costarring (Score:2, Funny)
timely! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More apocalyptic blather? (Score:5, Funny)
1. Mad Max = Max chased in his car
2. Road Warrior = Max chased in his truck
3. Thunderdome = Max chased in his train
4. New movie = Max chased in his Rolls Royce
Other stipulations... (Score:3, Funny)
I heard that in his contract on the set everyone is to refer to him as "Lord Humongous."
Re:With that salary... (Score:3, Funny)
Fake Leather? (Score:5, Funny)
You had fake leather? You were lucky! When I was a lad, we had to paint our bodies with hot sulfurous pitch if we wanted to even LOOK like we wore fake leather in a movie!
Re:25 million? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:profit ? (Score:5, Funny)
A cool plot (Score:3, Funny)
Where are the bristish??? (Score:3, Funny)
Wimp (Score:1, Funny)
You're no nerd. $25 million should be written as 2ln(5000)/ln(2), or about 2^(24.5754).
Re:Wimp (Score:2, Funny)
Real programmers would talk about $0x17D7840, $0137274100, or $1011111010111100001000000 (hex, octal, and binary respectively)
Re:profit ? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fake Leather? (Score:5, Funny)
who they gonna get... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The last of the V8 Interceptors (Score:4, Funny)
Mad Max vs. Porn (Score:2, Funny)
Script? (Score:4, Funny)
I have read childrens books to my four year old that have had more words than the first three movies combined. What can there be to polish?
Re:But how much are they paying Grace Jones!? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:With that salary... (Score:2, Funny)
You... (Score:1, Funny)
I do?
Re:25 million? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Everyone's free to use sunscreen... (Score:3, Funny)
The Movie execs!
Or Hilary Rosen, if they're not around.
Re:25 million? (Score:3, Funny)
Ugh. (Score:2, Funny)
Instead of "I'll be back."
Kraftwerk (Score:3, Funny)
"I am the operator / with my pocket calculator"
oops, I am indicating my age...
The ultimate product promotion movie! (Score:2, Funny)
Opening scene - Max "roaring" down the road on his super-charged Segway surrounded by hoards of baddies. We see Max being hit multiple times, reeling from the shock of each blow, but he just keeps going.
Baddie #1 - Curse that Segway, if we could just knock Max down we'd be able to ravage the orphanage and take over that oil refinery...
(You can take it from there though I recommend that you don't.