Tom Hardy speaks about stepping into Mel Gibson's shoes as new 'Mad Max'
Tom Hardy has revealed details of his upcoming movie Mad Max: Fury Road, in which he takes the starring role. Speaking to Collider while at a junket for his new film Inception, the Christopher Nolan thriller starring Leonardo diCaprio, Hardy revealed that the new Max would be "a hungry wolf" and "like when you put a cat in the bath…like a puma: very hungry and dangerous. This is a guy who's not well, so it's imperative that I create that reality."
The original Mad Max, the cult 1979 film starring Mel Gibson, was an Australian dystopian thriller, and Hardy says the new film will be "a relaunch and revisit and entire restructuring, which isn't to say it's not picking up from the Mad Max you know already. It's a nice retake on the character: depositing him in the same world but bringing him up to date by 30 years."
The film has been in development hell for over 25 years, and was resurrected in 2009. The new film will star Hardy, Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz and Skins actor Nicholas Hoult.
'Mad Max' Gets New Cars Published July 11, 2011 FoxNews.com
And you thought you’d seen the last of the V8 Interceptors.
Everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic renegade police officer, Mad Max, is set to return to the silver screen just in time for the real-world apocalypse that’s rumored to arrive in 2012. Mel Gibson won’t be reprising his role this time around – instead, he’ll be played by up and coming British hunk Tom Hardy - but that’s ok because, for many fans, Mel wasn’t the star of the original films, anyway.
Instead, it was the heavily modified 1973 XB Ford Falcon GT coupe that Max drove in the first two films in the series, “Mad Max,” and “Mad Max: The Road Warrior.” The high-performance Pursuit Special based on a homegrown Australian muscle car that was once Down Under’s answer to the Mustang.
To celebrate the reboot of the film franchise, Ford and TopGear Australia magazine have unveiled a pair of design proposals and are asking Aussie fans to vote for their favorite, in hopes one of them will be used in the new movie, “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
Far more futuristic than the original, neither is based on an existing car, but both come packing plenty of high-tech highway battle equipment, including tazers to take down motorcycle riding bad guys, spiked wheels to tear the tires of attacking vehicles and titanium body panels to shield the car from police scanners…uh, isn’t Max supposed to be the cop?
One of the designs even puts the driver's seat in the center of the vehicle, perfect for a loner.
Unlike the cars, details on the film are still mostly under wraps, but it is believed to be a sequel that takes place just three years after Tina Turner's character left Max to wander the desert alone at the end of 1985’s “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”
By the looks of these cars, things have gotten a lot better for him in those three years.
For the past couple of months, Tom Hardy has been sporting a particularly luxuriant beard, as part of his prep for Mad Max: Fury Road. And it looks like he might not be touching a Mach 3 for a good while longer. Empire got the chance to speak with Hardy and his Lawless co-star Guy Pearce in Cannes, where the former admitted that the long-delayed project still has no set start date.
“We keep moving that around, you know?” he shrugs. “Who knows when it’ll come out? I’ve been on stand-by for two years… but it’s all part of it. It’s kind of the cool thing to do, to be elusive with dates and all that.”
While there has been talk of the Mad Max shoot being so ambitious that it will last an entire year, rumour has it that the schedule has been cut down to trim the budget.
Says Hardy, not entirely seriously: “It was going to be a year of filming, then six months, and now we’re supposed to be doing it in six days. It’s a musical – we’re going to go around shopping centres in a little wagon and sing songs. People were expecting big, but we’re going to give them small. It’ll be a live, free-running musical and it’s coming to a place near you soon.”
And finally, answering the burning question of why Pearce has no eyebrows in Lawless, Hardy points at his beard: “I have his hair. I’m holding onto it.” Pearce laughs. “It’s true, Tom’s got it. He’s stuck it on his face.”
'Mad Max 4: Fury Road' finally gets new release date
The much-delayed Mad Max 4: Fury Road has finally received a new release date.
Warner Bros have now confirmed that the film, which will see Tom Hardy taking over the franchise lead from Mel Gibson, will be in cinemas on May 15, 2015. It will also be the first installment in the series, which was made famous by Gibson in three films released between 1979 and 1985, to be screened in 3D.
The new sequel is being directed by Mad Max creator George Miller and will co-star Charlize Theron as a character called Imperator Furiosa. Former Skins star Nicholas Hoult will portray a figure called Nux, while other key characters are called Slit, Miss Giddy, Rictus Erectus and Coma Doof-Warrior, with model-turned-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley will also feature. The script has been written by Miller with British comic book artist Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris, a former Heartbreak High actor who had a small role in the original Mad Max film.
Speaking in 2012 about the film's plot, Miller said: "Mad Max is caught up with a group of people fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by the Imperator Furiosa. This movie is an account of the Road War which follows. It is based on the Word Burgers of the History Men and eyewitness accounts of those who survived."
No Mel Gibson cameo in 'Mad Max 4: Fury Road', says director
Mel Gibson will not make a cameo in Mad Max 4: Fury Road, director George Miller has revealed.
The film will see Tom Hardy take over the franchise lead from Gibson, who made the series famous due to his starring roles in three installments between 1979 and 1985. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, series creator Miller said of Gibson's potential involvement in the next film: "It would have been nice somehow but, no, it's not true. Our film, luckily after a ridiculous amount of work, is testing extremely well. We're very happy."
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