Filming on Mad Max: Fury Road has already been subject to delays. The six-month $100 million shoot was meant to kick off August 2010 with stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in New South Wales, before the start date was revised to February of next year. The production has been pushed back again, this time a full year to February 2012.
Even worse, The Australian [via /Film] reports that “the high Australian dollar could ultimately kill the film as its budget grows.” The first delay was for meteorological reasons, but the report doesn’t specify the nature of this postponement. Is an ever-bloating budget to blame? Hit the jump for a brief recap of what we know about the Mad Max reboot.
The bullet points:
- The film would shoot for over six months with a $100 million budget. Star Tom Hardy revised that number to “probably nine months.”
- It was rumored that director George Miller might shoot two films, Mad Max: Fury Road and Mad Max: Furiosa back to back.
- Hardy (Inception) was cast as the new “Mad” Max Rotansky.
- Charlize Theron (Hancock) was cast as the new female lead.
- Nicholas Hoult (Clash of the Titans) will play a character named “Nux.”
- Riley Keough (The Runaways) was likely going to play the “Five Wives,” a group of women that Hardy must protect from the bad guys
- It was recently revealed that Theron’s character would be missing an arm by Anabelle Williams, an Olympic swimmer whose left arm ends at the elbow and will play Theron’s stunt double.
Here’s how Hardy described the film in an interview with Steve:
“It’s a relaunch and revisit to the world. An entire restructuring. That’s not to say that it’s not picking up or leaving off from the Mad Max you know already, but it’s a nice re-take on the entire world using the same character, depositing him in the same world but bringing him up to date by 30 years.”
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I don’t have a particularly strong connection to the series, but I was looking forward to this one. Especially with Hardy at the lead. Dude’s a star. Hopefully Miller can find a way to get it in front of cameras by February 2012, Australian dollar be damned.
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Is that for one film or both?
I’m not sure the back-to-back shoot was ever confirmed. But either way, Fury Road probably won’t start filming until 2012 at the earliest. And Furiosa — it if it’s happening — sometime after that.
No Mel….No Max. It really is that simple anyway.
that’s just small minded and stupid.
Bust the deal and face the wheel!!
Not too surprised about this one. Was talking to a mate who was going to work on this, and apparently the real reason this has been postponed was because Warner Bros. wasn’t too keen on the film from the start. They really gave Miller the green light because they wanted another Happy Feet.
But maybe that’s just gossip.
On the whole it’s a real shame for the Australian film industry. All we’ve really got on the board ‘big-budget’ wise is Terra Nova, and that’s pretty much it.
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it would be nice if george miller could actually get a movie off the fucking ground. and i’m not talking about a goddamn happy feet sequel.
I actually wonder if it really has to do with the Unions over there. Just like what Peter Jackson was talking about a few weeks ago.
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