New Mad Max Film

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! "

And of course...

[killthiskid]

Lazy man's google new link. [google.com]

Re:sheesh

[Reality Master 101]

I was tempted to agree with you, but actually dude is younger than you might think [imdb.com]. He's only 46. Not like, say, Harrison Ford who is 60.

Re:profit ?

[Anonymous Coward]

First of all, the article said it was a $104 million project.

Secondly, they said the first three movies grossed 69 million in the US. That doesn't count internation box office totals nor all the other sources of income consistant with films that achieve cult status.

Mad Max Movies FAQ

[eht]

Mad Max Movies FAQ [madmaxmovies.com] is a great link for all thing's Mad Max

Re:I don't know

[pmancini]

Um, Spongebob is not gay. He has a rather attractive squiril girlfriend. (how do you spell the name of that rodent???)

While the gay-ultra-left may push for Good 'ole Spongebob to be gay, he ain't!

Plus, who cares? The Pirate is the real star of the show!

Re:Oh Goody

[daeley]

has not been original in over 10 years

Might have been a smidge difficult to be more original in that time frame given that the last Mad Max movie [imdb.com] came out in 1985, bub.

Re:profit ?

[dvdeug]

Ah, but are those numbers inflated? Movies cost more now than they did then.

The original Mad Max was made on a very low budget. It was the highest profit to cost ratio movie until Blair Witch. So cheap that the only actor to wear real leather was Mel Gibson - the other characters had to do with fake leather.

(All from the pop-up-video type notes on the DVD.)

Re:Mad Max 4-

[godawful]

if you will recall, max's interceptor was blown to pieces in the road warrior after someone tried to get his gasoline without defusing the booby trap

Re:The last of the V8 Interceptors

[seanmeister]

If you were wondering, that car was a Jensen Interceptor [british-steel.org]..

Re:The last of the V8 Interceptors

[bmajik]

the problem with NOS is that its not movie authentic.

You may remember that humongous's turbine powered truck seemed to have a NOS bottle on it that gave it the power to overtake mad max and then the quasi-gay biker used a vertical truck exhaust pipe to bash in the windshield on the interceptor, forcing max off the road and ultimately causing the car to be destroyed and his dog to be shot.

putting NOS on a car would be like sleeping with the enemy. I don't care if it would go faster, max's car didn't have it :)

im not sure if this should get
+1 Funny (why do you know that shit, loser)
or
-1 Get A Life (why do you know that shit, loser)

Profit-to-cost ratios

[Shenkerian]

Which ratio statistic are you questioning? The Blair Witch Project got over a 2300:1 profit-to-cost ratio [movieline.com].. Two orders of magnitude larger than the 37:1 from the butterfly project you mentioned, and one order of magnitude larger than Mad Max's 250:1 [hollywoodteenmovies.com].

Re:This is covered with red flags...

[Blondie-Wan]

$25m = Can you name a single movie where the lead made that kind of $$ that was actually any good? I'd rather see Guy Pearce (Memento) or Bruce Campbell get paid $1m to play Max.

The Sixth Sense. Bruce Willis made a hell of a lot of money on that film, and it was an amazing piece of work. I think that's from having a percentage of the gross, though.

I really don't know whether this will be any good or not, but I'm certainly willing to give it a chance. We'll see...

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