Mad Max returns! ...as a 3D anime film. <-- lolwut?

[Frax]

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EXCLUSIVE: Fourth ‘Mad Max’ In Development…As 3-D Anime Feature
Published by Eric Ditzian on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 12:30 pm.

'Mad Max'Good ol’ Mad Max: post-apocalyptic gun-slinger with a need for blood-thirsty revenge! MTV News’ #4 Movie Badass of All Time! And…star of a 3-D anime feature film?!

Unlikely as that last one sounds, some big screen animated “Max” action is shaping up to become a reality, according to George Miller, the writer/director of the previous three films. The catch? He doesn’t want Max himself, Mel Gibson, anywhere near the project.

“We’ll probably go a different route,” Miller told MTV News about the potential talent voicing the lead role. The plot would be partly lifted from the script of the fourth “Max” film, which was set to shoot in 2003 until financing collapsed in the wake of the Iraq War.

Now Miller is resurrecting the idea as an R-rated, stereoscopic anime flick for theatrical release. It’s a curious undertaking, to be sure, but one made all the more certain to happen after the runaway success in 2006 of his computer-animated “Happy Feet”—not that the newest, ever-violent “Max” film will have much in common with that kid-friendly penguin party.

“I see myself as someone who is very curious about storytelling and all its various media,” Miller said. “I’ve always loved anime, in particular the Japanese sensibility. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do.”

The project is one phase of a “Mad Max” renaissance of sorts. Along with “God of War II” designer Cory Barlog, Miller is developing an action-adventure videogame based on the fourth film. Gibson won’t be participating in that endeavor, either.

For the anime release, Miller isn’t looking simply to mimic Japanese-style animation but rather to adapt it for Western audiences. “The anime is an opportunity for me to shift a little bit about what anime is doing because anime is ripe for an adjustment or sea change,” he explained. “It’s coming in games and I believe it’s the same in anime. There’s going to be a hybrid anime where it shifts more towards Western sensibilities. [Japanese filmmaker Akira] Kurosawa was able to bridge that gap between the Japanese sensibilities and the West and make those definitive films.”

It’s been 23 years since we last tasted some fresh “Mad Max” goodness, but neither the anime nor the game will be arriving soon enough to satisfy our hunger for the rage-filled Australian vigilante. “I’ve got a couple of years left,” said Miller. “We’re in the early stages writing and designing. A really good game you need two and half years. And for good anime you need two years.

3D anime “Mad Max”—awesome idea or awesomest? But will it — can it?? — be the same without Mel Gibson’s voice?

[Occido]

Great it's bad enough Hollywood wants to remake and/or make sequels to badass movies. But, anime just completely rapes anythng it touches. It's the THE worse form of entertainment created by man.

Damn you anime fuckers for taking Mad Max and making it a part of your extremely long list of pure 100% shit.

[Snugglebear]

No more of this?



The Mad Max stunts were stuff of legend!

[T-rex]

Originally Posted by Occido

Great it's bad enough Hollywood wants to remake and/or make sequels to badass movies. But, anime just completely rapes anythng it touches. It's the THE worse form of entertainment created by man.

Damn you anime fuckers for taking Mad Max and making it a part of your extremely long list of pure 100% shit.

If you read the article you would know that they are using anime as a buzzword to generate excitement. Since it appears as if no Japanese people will have anything to do with it at all, it really isn't anime. This guy just claims that he is going to be using an animation style that is similar to it, which is sort of a silly claim to make considering the diversity in animation that exists.

And I would debate that anime is not the worst form of entertainment that has ever existed, but not with someone that highly values Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. We are clearly not using entertainment for the same goals.

[FulorianC]

How can it be Mad Max without Mel Gibson? That's like... Braveheart without Mel Gibson!

[Believe]

Originally Posted by T-rex

And I would debate that anime is not the worst form of entertainment that has ever existed, but not with someone that highly values Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. We are clearly not using entertainment for the same goals.

Just like he would probably rather not debate it with someone who expresses their nerd love for anime by dressing up as characters just to see a movie.

[Laladilya]

First porn I bought was called Mad Jack Beyond Thunderbone and had Peter North in it. They had toy guns (like actual toy guns from Toys R Us with the sound effects) and it looked like it was filmed in my backyard. No way will this live up to that standard.

[Castigator]

Well, than again, you'd be able to have Max chase down cute furries with Katana's on Akira Bikes, save them from an Alien Giant Robot invasion, and close the movie with a giant Post-Apoc tentacle mutations rape orgy...





The sky's the limit on this!!!

[Occido]

Anime IS THE worst form of entertainment ever. Period.
The devolution and pussification of this generation of people is due to Anime.

03-22-2009 12:44 AM fuck off with your anime hate

You can get pissed all you want and visualize yourself bursting into flames as your hair stands up on end and mystical energies pour into your body as rage fills your soul, blackening the world around you but once you come out of your blind anime nerd rage.... you're still just a degenerate pussy.

[Szlia]

Originally Posted by Occido

The devolution and pussification of this generation of people is due to Anime.

Please elaborate.

[T-rex]

Originally Posted by Believe

Just like he would probably rather not debate it with someone who expresses their nerd love for anime by dressing up as characters just to see a movie.

O God learn to take a joke.

Originally Posted by Occido

You can get pissed all you want and visualize yourself bursting into flames as your hair stands up on end and mystical energies pour into your body as rage fills your soul, blackening the world around you but once you come out of your blind anime nerd rage.... you're still just a degenerate pussy.

Judging anime by DBZ is like judging American music by the Backstreet Boys. So go ahead and try again though, your nerd ignorance is nearly over 9000.

[Occido]

Originally Posted by T-rex

Judging anime by DBZ is like judging American music by the Backstreet Boys. So go ahead and try again though, your nerd ignorance is nearly over 9000.

I find it amusing that you automatically go to DBZ. For some reason, I'm not at all surprised....

[T-rex]

Originally Posted by Occido

I find it amusing that you automatically go to DBZ. For some reason, I'm not at all surprised....

Well, you are the one that referred to it first. Not directly, but the style of anime you were making a bad joke about are most directly characterized by DBZ.

[Cybsled]

Anime IS THE worst form of entertainment ever. Period.

Incorrect. That would be Fox reality tv shows and any sitcoms on the now defunct WB network.

[Occido]

Originally Posted by Cybsled

Incorrect. That would be Fox reality tv shows and any sitcoms on the now defunct WB network.

Those are bad, but anime is worse.

And for the record.. since everyone likes to throw around the word "ignorant"
I've tried to watch of the ones mentioned here, and in my internets. Whihc is hilarious how many of you are butthurt and are incapable of handling an opinion other than what comes out of your own mouths.

Anyway, I've tried to watch some of the ones mentioned... can't do it. It's horrible shit. All of it. Deal with it.