If Mad Max 2 was the Sistine Chapel of Punk as J.G. Ballard once quipped, then perhaps the Last Judgement is at hand! George Miller is going to commence pre-production of Mad Max 4 immediately in NSW. I’m guessing he’s taking a punt on the state most likely to provide, erm, free extras; what with rivers running dry and planning incompetence running rife. Add a liquid fuel disruption and we’ll see who has the last laugh…
A terrific video tribute to the first Maxes set to Motorhead’s Ace of Spades is below the jump. Parental supervision recommended for those easily offended by car accidents
(via Simon Sellars)
Beyond Beyond Thunderdome?
AWESOME TO THE MAX!!! PUN NOT INTENDED BUT NOTICED HALFWAY THROUGH TYPING AND ALLOWED TO PROCEED!!!
The film industry will be destroyed by the rampant Australian dollar. In US dollar terms, Australia has now become a very expensive place to make movies, at a time when Hollywood is slashing budgets.
Roll on Quarry Australia.
I guess we can assume a contra deal has already been done with the likely the appearances of colourful ex-labor politicians like Costa (who really has the looks for a part), Richardson and Latham.
One thing for certain, the slow motion car crash, that is the present government, will not be around for the opening night of Mad Max4.
Rumour is that the unspecified Mad Max apocalypse was in fact peak oil (not known as such at the time), but they could retcon it so that the world was destroyed by the NSW ALP Right. Eg their urban “planning” is such that a spontaneous mass road rage errupts in a frenzy of blood, spreading to engulf the whole nation and then world, exacerbated because everyone in Australia has done time in a private prison and learned the ropes of ultra-violence.
Living near Victoria I have a thesis as to the comparative health of the Aust horror movie industry; all it’s main players have probably been trained on TV ad projects for the TAC. Some of them will doubtless be available for Mr Miller. The latest one is another reason for my wife to insist I can’t have another motorcycle. Similarly I might try to see Mad Max 4 without her. 400 car drivers could burn to death pounding terrifed on the jammed windows, and she’d only see the biker going under the semi.
When you put this Rees Government ‘initiative’ alongside the imported grass and picnic tables that became the Harbour Bridge, you have to wonder if our Nathan has really perfected the Sunday slow news day. This place has become bizarre central.
carbonsink @ 2 – its the price we pay for having higher interest rates relative to other countries. It’ll be hurting a lot of exporters.
Nothing, nothing the NSW Labor Government could do would help them win the next election. Nothing. If they all forgot to lodge nomination forms withthe Electoral Commission, or drove off a cliff in a bus like The Young Ones, they couldn’t be any more gone. This idea that NSW Labor has a chance (and that this might, against all evidence, be a good thing) seems to feature a lot here – please stop it. Don’t make LP a reverse Shanahan.
dk.au, thanks for the Motorhead video. Notice how it was constituted: maybe 1/3 from MM1, 5% from MM3, and the rest from the glorious second movie.
Which is as it should be.
The first movie was an OK 70s actioner. The third was … well, I honestly can’t remember a thing about it, except that it featured Tina Turner with that rather catchy ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’.
But MM2 … sigh … why don’t they make films like that any more?
[/nostalgia]
I have this awful feeling that MM4 will be packed full of horrible unconvincing CGI instead of real car stunts.
Oops, forgot to change name from 9/11 weirdness thread, where ‘Prinde’ is the flavour of the month.
“This idea that NSW Labor has a chance (and that this might, against all evidence, be a good thing) seems to feature a lot here – please stop it. Don’t make LP a reverse Shanahan.”
Really? I seem to read nothing but what a utter bunch of doomed incompetents they are. Before the last election it was often observed that they’d probably still win, as they did, but I haven’t heard that this time around.
“I have this awful feeling that MM4 will be packed full of horrible unconvincing CGI instead of real car stunts.”
Please be wrong.
Where, Andrew? All I read on LP about the NSW Government is the usual line of uninformed contempt for Sussex Street.
(My old Costa gravatar was pulled out of retirement in the Southern Highlands just for this comment).
Still, a few days, or maybe a week ago, one of the Hollywood studios pulled the production of Green Lantern here because of the rising cost of the AU$. (Good for buying books o/s, but not for making movies here. With the Green Lantern precedent, unless the Aussie dollar goes down, I wouldn’t hold my breath. despite the deserts, Broken Hill, a new Max etc.
I dunno that implications of corruption and incompetence are actually all that ill-informed, Liam.
Still, when your state is still governed by the Rum Corps, it’s only to be expected.
If it’s just an implication, there’s no way to tell if it’s informed, is there, DI(nr)?
And as for your Rum Corps analogy, is it the ALP you have in the role of a honour-fixated gentlemanlike military clique? I’m not sure you’re reading the same history of the New South Wales Corps as I am.
(Damn I love using Costa’s face)
It’s just an observation, Liam, that it doesn’t matter who’s in govt in NSW, you still end up with the place being actually run by the same spivs. They just deliver the brown paper bags to a different address.
Liam,
Surely the ALP (NSW) is loyalty fixated,(probably more so than any other sector of society except the cops, maybe) and, if you do them in, revenge fixated. Surely thats a kind of honour code?
“My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The NSW ALP. The men we called “Maxed Out”. To understand who they were, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like the NSW ALP. The warrior NSW ALP. In the roar of an engine, they lost everything. And became shells of men, burnt out, desolate men, men haunted by the demons of their past, men who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that they learned to live again…”
I AM THE UNINFORMED TOECUTTER!
The NSW Labor Govt….still on a higher 2PP than the Federal Liberal Opposition.
Very true, jo. And Malcolm Turnbull has never explicitly denied shooting Malcolm McGurk, has he?
“And Malcolm Turnbull has never explicitly denied shooting Malcolm McGurk, has he?”
Nah. Silly bugger missed the cat.
Beautiful, Nabs.
There should be an industry doing video clips of your comments.
Nice work Liam, straw man and red herring in one short sentence. Are you IN the NSW right faction?
As I’ve often had to say, Sean, I’m not a member of the NSW Right aka Centre Unity, and never have been. The straw men and red herrings are all my own genius.
A bad sign, Liam, is that the NSW govt departments are getting re-named more often than a pretend airline pilot on the lam from a determined detective. Deckchairs, Titanic, etc.
Mad Max 4 save NSW and give NSW people jobs..how..all ‘the jobs for NSW” rubbish.If they need 500 workers ,you can bet that a big percentage will be based anywhere but NSW…