George Miller's fourth outing for his Mad Max film series entitled "Mad Max: Fury Road" may have took longer than most usual franchises. However, the almost 30 year long wait for the Australian director's follow-up is not a back to the drawing board concept as the previous video footage made obvious and with Tom Hardy now playing the so-called "Road Warrior".
The English actor has lady luck on his side as he recently announced that he will be attached to three more "Mad Max" films. Although as he also suggested in Esquire interview that: ""Everything's based on figures and how things are perceived. Inevitably it's a business."
Hardy is no stranger to central characters possessed by a "one-man army" as he portrayed England's notorious prisoner Charles Bronson in 2008's Bronson, which receive a positive reception from both the box office (earning $2,260,712 for a modest budget of $230,000) and film critics. Expectations for the film of a society destroyed by environmental damage and "Armalite gangs" have become larger in size especially with the trailers that will remind the audience that it's not just a film with a longer than usual car chase.
Warner Bros. Pictures who are behind the DC's shared universe films will also be airing Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before all screenings of Mad Max: Fury Road, which opens on May 15, 2015. A day before it will hit theaters the apocalypse road movie will debut first in France for a Cannes festival screening.
It also marks the long-awaited return for George Miller to the realm of action and science fiction films as his most recent franchise projects were the comedy-drama film "Babe" series and the animated family comedy "Happy Feet".Miller launched the series in 1979 before filming Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985).
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