Rumors aside, after
thirty plus years stuck in development hell, set problems, real car accidents,
and loads and loads of sand later, director George Miller's highly anticipated fourth
entry in the Mad Max franchise is finally around the corner.
While speaking to
Esquire about the film, Tom Hardy revealed he has never been more
excited and out of his comfort zone, has he was for Mad Max: Fury Road, and
that he has seen the film, which is "fucking unbelievable".
Excluding
Suicide Squad, which the actor passed on, this will be Hardy's third franchise
role after Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002, and The Dark Knight Rises in 2012, and
though both attempts never yield fruits, i.e. return for the sequel, Mad Max has
the potential, but he advises caution since "everything’s based on figures
and how things are perceived. Inevitably it’s a business."
This
isn't the first time the sequel conversation raised its head. Director George
Miller had already revealed that he's written a whole new Mad Max trilogy. In
fact the plan was to film the first two films Mad Max: Fury Road, and Mad Max:
Furiosa back-to-back. Regardless, at least we now know that if the first one is a
hit, production on the second one should begin almost immediately, depending on
everyone's schedules of course.
Hardy
also spoke of the experience and difficulty of shooting such a technically complex
film in the middle of nowhere.
"We
were in the middle of nowhere," says Hardy, "so far away from the
studio system that [Warner Bros] can’t really see what’s going on, and just
getting things to and from the set was a nightmare. We’d lose half
a vehicle in sand and have to dig it out. It was just this unit in
the middle of x-million square-kilometres of desert, and then this group of
lunatics in leathers, like a really weird S&M party, or a Hell’s Angels
convention. It was like
Cirque du Soleil meets fucking Slipknot."
Opening on May 15, 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road also stars
Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa, Nicholas Hoult as Nux, Rosie
Huntington-Whiteley as Splendid, Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe, Zoe Kravitz
as Toast, and Josh Helman as Slit.
Source - Esquire
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