daikun
11-08-2006, 07:11 AM
I found this (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=38860) at Sci Fi Wire:
With the election results in, moviegoers have one other thing to blame on George Bush: the delay of the proposed fourth Mad Max movie. At least that's the opinion of Mad Max's creator, director George Miller. Miller told SCI FI Wire that he was prepared to begin filming the next installment of the futuristic epic in the desert of Namibia when Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.
"We were there," the Australian director said in an interview. "We actually were about to start filming when George Bush and [British prime minister] Tony Blair decided to go into Iraq, and the American dollar began to slide against the Australian dollar, and we lost 25 percent of our budget."
Nevertheless, Miller, who directed the first Mad Max in 1979 and two sequels, said that he's very eager to do a fourth installment, even if it won't have original star Mel Gibson, who has said he doesn't want to reprise the role of the road warrior renegade in the post-apocalyptic Outback.
When Mad Max IV faltered, Miller said that he was asked by Warner Brothers to helm the animated penguin musical Happy Feet instead. "They had the script over at Warner Brothers, and when Mad Max IV was slowing down, [they] said, 'We can't wait too much longer. Let's do it.' And so I got to spend a lot of time in my home city. I was happy to do it. I could take the kids to school, ... and I learned so much. It was an incredible experience to learn about the digital realm. I didn't realize there was so much to unravel about storytelling."
With the election results in, moviegoers have one other thing to blame on George Bush: the delay of the proposed fourth Mad Max movie. At least that's the opinion of Mad Max's creator, director George Miller. Miller told SCI FI Wire that he was prepared to begin filming the next installment of the futuristic epic in the desert of Namibia when Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.
"We were there," the Australian director said in an interview. "We actually were about to start filming when George Bush and [British prime minister] Tony Blair decided to go into Iraq, and the American dollar began to slide against the Australian dollar, and we lost 25 percent of our budget."
Nevertheless, Miller, who directed the first Mad Max in 1979 and two sequels, said that he's very eager to do a fourth installment, even if it won't have original star Mel Gibson, who has said he doesn't want to reprise the role of the road warrior renegade in the post-apocalyptic Outback.
When Mad Max IV faltered, Miller said that he was asked by Warner Brothers to helm the animated penguin musical Happy Feet instead. "They had the script over at Warner Brothers, and when Mad Max IV was slowing down, [they] said, 'We can't wait too much longer. Let's do it.' And so I got to spend a lot of time in my home city. I was happy to do it. I could take the kids to school, ... and I learned so much. It was an incredible experience to learn about the digital realm. I didn't realize there was so much to unravel about storytelling."