Dear God,
I don’t want to come across as unappreciative. I remember how swiftly you acted in 2008 when we were staring down the barrel of the gun that was George Miller’s Justice League. We knew it was all too forced, too miscast to be worthy of anyone’s attention and would only serve to insult the DC characters we have all grown up loving. As production news mounted and the movie seemed eminent all of geekdom let out a collective “Dear God, don’t let this happen!”
And you heard us. As quick as it came the movie fizzled to nothing. But now I’m starting to think we weren’t specific enough in our request. Perhaps we were too vague when we asked you to not let this happen; our desire was that you would prevent Miller from making the Justice League movie, not to keep him from making adult-oriented live action films altogether.
But this is where we find ourselves. The Mad Max sequels (Mad Max: Fury Road and Mad Mad: Furiosa) that were supposed to be going before camera soon are halting again. Why is that happening? Weather problems, which, as I understand it, is your department. Apparently the barren wasteland Miller wanted to shoot in now has flowers and pelicans and water and all kinds of other pretty crap! Why do you have to do this to us? Its Australia! That’s where we go when we need some good old fashion wasteland to film and we don’t want to pay California taxes or go to one of those deserty places that’s always on the news. You’ve taken it from us! Who benefits from this kind of thing? Australians know the deal. They’ve learned to live in deserts. They don’t need greenery, that’s what New Zealand is for. Australia is for wastelands and movies in which they are to be filmed and more than that, for Mad Max.
I know I’ve complained a lot about decades-later sequels, but this one was going to have Tom Hardy! Where is the justice in getting us excited about that possibility and then taking it from us just so some pelicans can have a new aquatic vacation spot? Plus they already have 150 vehicles built, which is pretty wasteful if this movie doesn’t come together. Summer is coming to Australia, it’s about time you cranked up the sun’s rays to high and got those salt flats baking.
Respectfully yours,
Tyler
Source: Coming Soon
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I think this is based on some old/recycled news – shooting is happening in South Africa. Maybe the original article snipped out that detail and just focused on why filming isn’t going ahead in Australia. Was it from an Australian source?
All together now: “We don’t need another Mad Max sequel…”
Exactly, anything that delays these films until they get abandoned allthogether is a good thing.
Hmmm, this is what happens when you cut & paste articles from other sites (BADASS DIGEST) without checking sources or how old the material is. This news report may be nearly 2 years old –that’s when the heavy rains fell which caused the desert ‘flowering’- so out of date that the rescheduling is long since done and a few months ago Miller said they were shipping all the MM vehicles to South Africa where the film begins shooting next March or so.
“Imminent”, not “eminent”. Jeez.
What? Why? It’s Tom Hardy in a George Miller Mad Max movie. Why do you want these movies abandoned altogether? You know for a fact they will be horrible? There’s cynicism, and then there’s just fucking stupid.
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