With Tom Hardy having taken on the role of Max Rockatansky for this year’s Mad Max: Fury Road and its subsequent planned sequels, Deadline has asked director George Miller about the chances of Mel Gibson popping up for a cameo in a future instalment, and it’s not good news for Gibson fans hoping to see him back in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
“Not in these movies, for a very simple reason,” states Miller. “If Mel, who is Max in a lot of people’s memories, appeared in the next movie, it would pull audiences out of the movie for a bit, and we worked so hard to keep people immersed in the movie as much as possible. It would be like, I don’t know, seeing Roger Moore appearing in a Daniel Craig James Bond movie. It would be fun, but it would also pull you out of the experience of the movie.”
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Although it’s yet to receive the official go ahead from Warner Bros., Miller has completed a script for a follow-up to Fury Road, which has been using the working title of Mad Max: The Wasteland.
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Originally published November 7, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
