Hello there everybody, new here.
With news about a fourth movie hitting it got me to watch the old movies again, or more like for the first time as I only recalled bits and pieces of them.
So searching for more news on the next movie I found this board.
Anyways, I had it in the back of my head that I'd read somewhere some time back about Miller not seeming very interested in getting Gibson back. And doing some searching about I found this link to a interview from march 2008 about a video game based of Fury Road.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/ ... arlog.aspx
An interesting quote from the interview is:
On whether Mel Gibson will star in the movie and the videogame:
Oh, it wouldn't be with Mel....I didn't realize it was so long ago but, he was 20, well, he was 21 when he first played Mad Max. He's in his 50's now--it's too old. Yeah, I think for "The Road Warrior" he was 22 or 23 or something, so he was just a baby back then.
Not much respect for Gibson to spot there it seems. Sure glad Spielberg didn't have that attitude when preparing for Indy 4.
Seems Miller doesn't really care that much about if he's in it or not as if he can just easily be replaced without anybody noticing.
Is there a reason for him to have changed his mind now? I really hope so at least.
But from the way he ignored the Gibson question from that recent car unveiling video it might not seem to be the case.
It's going to be painful to watch a new Mad Max movie after all this time without Gibson in it.
As others have said it's like Indiana Jones without Ford.
It's a real shame that every movie has to center around young people these days, or at least it feels like it's the case.