Tom Hardy: Well obviously I can't give you any information [laughs], but needless to say, if we could draw a line between what Mad Max has become and the story of Mad Max and revisit...it's a revisit. Obviously with older fans, who've known the original for 30 years, some of them will be hard to turn. I would love to turn them, but I'm fully aware that I will take casualties in this venture but it's absolutely necessary and needs to be done, and revisited. I don't think George for one moment we are not going to look for recreating a new world and a new visit to the first two movies as opposed to the third.
There's not going to be that much CGI. Its going to be what you see is what is happening. It's a long shoot, its going to be a very human story. It will have wonderful landscapes and a very interactive, physical action too. It's a complete revisit. so come to it with a fresh pair of eyes. This is Mad Max revisited. Everybody that is involved wants it to succeed and - has been working on it for many, many, many years. He's very passionate and he's going very deep into it...in the same way Chris Nolan approached Inception. The story and narrative is more important than the big action sequences. The hybrid of the two is in a similar vein to Inception. He wants to rediscover Mad Max in this a whole new world.
And if not everyone's cup of tea, I entirely take the blame for that and not George Miller.
Matt Patches: Noooo...
Tom Hardy: It would be a fault of my own and not anything George does, or any of the cast. It's a big, old number and I want to bring it in. If you don't like, I promise to go back to the UK and apologize profusely! I feel very strong.
Matt Patches: Well now I'm even more excited!
I only know Tom Hardy from his role as the Romulean-cloned Jean Luc Picard but looking him up I see he was also a GI in Band of Brothers. If I'm not mistaken he was the crossroad guard killed in the German traffic accident.
And no way Charlize Theron can fill Tina Turner's garters.
The “new” Mad Max will be driving a “souped up” Chevy Volt chasing the bad guys riding on tricked out Vespas.......
Why???....why do we have to suffer thru yet ANOTHER remake???
I loved the original US version of Mad Max with Mel Gibson’s Aussie accent dubbed into “American.”
Why?
WHY???!!! (I found out that the punctuation combination of “?” and “!” is called in “interrobang”. Interesting.)
I firmly believe that we need a law, whereby an armed assassin is stationed in every Hollywood boardroom, armed with a suppressed .45ACP pistol. Whenever the word “remake” is uttered, he immediately and unhesitatingly puts a bullet in the forehead of the executive that uttered it.
Star Trek Nemesis was full of fail, but I can’t say it was this guy’s fault.
I’m looking forward to this remake. It’ll be especially relevant since, when it finally comes out, we’ll all be driving in rusted cars through blasted hellscapes.
So will it be some sort of revisit? /s
Not much shock value now, every third kid at the mall looks like Wez.
IMO, a gay Mad Max won't fly.
Here’s an idea Hollywood, try making more original movies like Inception.
By 2012, we all may be appearing in our own real-life Mad Max epic, complete with an American Ayatollah of rock-and-roll-a, with his minions killing for a “tank of juice” (gasoline).
Yawn. Yet another remake. Why not remake a dud and make THAT better?
Remake Escape from LA for example.