Mad Max:Fury Road Trailer

[JD]

I swear this is my last post in this thread today, but we have some more new I missed earlier.

Apparently George Miller has already written a sequel to Fury Road and a novel version of a third one.
Hopefully FR will be successful enough that we'll get to see these.
Edited because I misread the story.

 

[Harvey]

He's the only one I've heard about.
I'm still not entirely clear on how this fits into the series. Everybody keeps referring to it as a reboot, but I read somewhere online that it's a midquel set between Mad Max and The Road Warrior. So is it possibly going to be kind of a soft reboot that can fit between the first two, but doesn't make any direct references to the first one? Or will it be a complete reboot?

Who cares? I've seen the first two films in the series, and outside of some spectacular action sequences, they're pretty light on both character development (especially the beloved The Road Warrior) and plot.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Any other actors (besides Hugh Keays-Byrne) returning from the original?

I believe he is playing a different character.

He's the only one I've heard about.
I'm still not entirely clear on how this fits into the series. Everybody keeps referring to it as a reboot, but I read somewhere online that it's a midquel set between Mad Max and The Road Warrior. So is it possibly going to be kind of a soft reboot that can fit between the first two, but doesn't make any direct references to the first one? Or will it be a complete reboot?

I heard it's set between The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome.

He's the only one I've heard about.
I'm still not entirely clear on how this fits into the series. Everybody keeps referring to it as a reboot, but I read somewhere online that it's a midquel set between Mad Max and The Road Warrior. So is it possibly going to be kind of a soft reboot that can fit between the first two, but doesn't make any direct references to the first one? Or will it be a complete reboot?

Who cares? I've seen the first two films in the series, and outside of some spectacular action sequences, they're pretty light on both character development (especially the beloved The Road Warrior) and plot.

That's basically it. I don't think any of the MM films referred to their predecessor(s) (beyond some returning cameos from TRW in BT) and I'd be surprised if this one did anything either to reference or contradict the original trilogy. I imagine it's left that the viewer can take it as he or she pleases but I suspect Miller intends for Hardy's Max to be the same one as Gibson's.

 

[kitik]

This really does look incredible. I'm not too concerned about where exactly this may fit in continuity. All I care about is that it's set in the apocalyptic desert with crazy looking vehicles and insane shit happens.

 

[Tosk]

not a rehash of TRW with a George Lucasian midlife crisis CGI update.

IIRC, there is no CGI in the new film.

That's clearly not true, just from the trailer alone. Not to mention that they had to remove Charlize's real arm in many shots.

Unrelatedly, I think I might actually really love the weirdo cover version of "Wild World" in the trailer. I didn't even recognize it at first.

 

[Yoda]

Trailer looked pretty cool. They got the look right at least. Might make the rare day one theater trip if nothing scares me off between now and then.

 

[Set Harth]

I heard it's set between The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome.

I think I also heard that at one point, but he still appears to have the car that gets blown up in TRW.

I don't think any of the MM films referred to their predecessor(s)

In the prologue of TRW we see a montage which includes clips from the first film.

(beyond some returning cameos from TRW in BT)

I can't think of who that would refer to other than Bruce Spence. Though it's possible to speculate that he was playing the same character in both TRW and BT, there are factors arguing against it and supposedly the part in BT was written without him in mind.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^Its been a long time since I've seen them, especially 1 or 2, so my memory is clearly failing me. I was referring to Spence, yeah. Always assumed he was the same character but I suppose it's ambiguous all right.

 

[Tosk]

It's not ambiguous. The Gyro Captain goes far far away at the end of MM2, long enough for the Feral Kid to grow old. Gyro and Jedidiah are different characters.

 

[Stoo]

Still kind of weird and confusing to reuse the actor and cast him as basically the same kind of character - pilot and thief - as the previous film.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^Thats what confuddled me!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Still kind of weird and confusing to reuse the actor and cast him as basically the same kind of character - pilot and thief - as the previous film.

Usually when this happens, it's to avoid paying royalties to the writer of wherever the first character appeared (example: why the character of Tom Paris was created for Voyager instead of just using Nick Locarno) but I see that many of the same writers wrote Thunderdome as did The Road Warrior so that probably doesn't apply here.

 

[Tosk]

Plus, that usually doesn't apply to films.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Or maybe Bruce Spence just really wanted to come back, and since he couldn't do it as the Gyro Captain, they made another character for him.

 

[JD]

Comic Book Resources posted an article about the panel they did after the trailer was shown at SDCC.

 

[mos6507]

Still kind of weird and confusing to reuse the actor and cast him as basically the same kind of character - pilot and thief - as the previous film.

I think it's more of a fan-service thing, for those who are sentimental about the original actors and want some sense of continuity via the actors and not the characters.

I like Tom Hardy as an actor but he just doesn't have the screen presence of Mel Gibson. If anything, he comes across more like Karl Urban than Gibson. We'll see what he does with the role.