Director George Miller is gearing up to shoot the fourth film in the ground-breaking Aussie road warrior franchise, industry sources say. Australian press said in May 2009: "MAD Max is revving up for a long-awaited return to the big screen, almost 25 years after Tina Turner ran Mel Gibson out of Bartertown. After exploring the possibility of an animated 3D-film, George Miller decided instead to shoot a 3D live action film, at which point plans to make the film animated were immediately dropped, and by May 2009, location scouting for the Mad Max sequel had begun. On May 18, 2009, however, it was reported that location scouting was underway for a new live action filming of Mad Max 4. The upcoming Fury Road film was going to be produced at Dr.D Studios, a digital art studios founded in 2008 by George Miller and Doug Mitchell. Both projects were expected to take 2 to 2½ years, according to Miller, with a release date in either 2011 or 2012. George Miller was also developing an action-adventure tie-in video game based on the fourth film, along with God of War II video game designer Cory Barlog. Miller cited the film Akira as an inspiration for what he wanted to do with the franchise. On March 5, 2009, it was announced that an R-rated 3D animated feature film was in pre-production taking much of the plot from Fury Road, although Mel Gibson would not feature as a voice talent and Miller was looking for a "different route", a "renaissance" of the franchise. However, he did say he thought Mel Gibson would not be interested in the film because of his age. Miller again confirmed his intention to make another Mad Max at the 2007 Aurora film maker initiative. The last thing I wanted to do is another Mad Max, but this script came along, and I'm completely carried away with it." The film's screenplay was co-written with cult British comic creator Brendan McCarthy, who also designed many of the new characters and vehicles. In November 2006, George Miller stated that he had intended to make Fury Road, and considered doing the film without Mel Gibson, saying, “There's a real hope.
Mel Gibson was interested in returning for the film, but lost interest after 2000. With the outbreak of the Iraq War, Mad Max 4 was abandoned as it was considered a potentially politically sensitive film. Although the project was given the green light for a $100 million USD budget to begin filming in Australia in May 2003, Mad Max 4 entered hiatus due to security concerns related to trying to film in Namibia because the United States and many other countries had tightened travel and shipping restrictions. George Miller announced in 2003 that a script had been written for a fourth film, and that pre-production was in the early stages.
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Plans for the fourth film of the Mad Max series hit financial difficulties and the project spent around 25 years in "development hell".
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