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Thanks to everybody who made suggestions on the boards. Here are our top 10 demands:
No Prequel!
Young Max meets another mistake If there is one thing that Mad Max 4 director George Miller needs to get right from the very beginning it is this: we do not want a prequel to Mad Max. Everyone in the world by now knows that movie prequels are a bad idea. It’s not that we don’t want to know Max’s back story, it’s just that a prequel needs new characters and adventures and it changes the meaning of what happened in the films we already know and love. A prequel would be a huge disappointment much like in Star Wars. Don’t do it George! Stick to the Wastelands
We require a proper wasteland setting with spectacular desert terrain and blazing sunsets. This is all pretty obvious, but it doesn’t hurt to tattoo it on the back of George’s hand (well, it doesn’t hurt us). What might be cool is if Max did a little exploring in a ruined city, but just for effect. The bulk of the film needs to be out in the Australian wastelands. A Thrilling Chase
What was the best part of Mad Max 2? The chase sequence (don’t argue, we know we’re right). A proper chase sequence with proper post-apocalyptic vehicles is a real must, but it needs to go above and beyond anything done before. A high speed set-piece full of dune buggies, motorcycles and armour-plated cars (classic Max vehicles and crazy new ones). It needs to be fast, it needs to be dangerous and it needs to have carnage. And while we’re at it, make sure what the target has is worth dying for in the chase (as in Mad Max 2). It has to mean something. It has to have that edge-of-the seat factor. No Computer Generated Images  Great on the XBOX 360, but not welcome in Mad Max 4. No CGI. Ok, if you want to mess with the hills in the background or digitally remove an encroaching boom mike then fine, but when it comes to the action scenes can you please do it the real way? Stick to stunt men in real vehicles earning their money and making the insurance guy wet his pants. Genuinely Evil Bad Guy x For Mad Max 4, we want the most
evil, psychotic, sadistic and dangerous villain ever in cinematic history. Lord
Humungus may have looked like a pervert but he was a great enemy who kept it
simple. He knew what he wanted and would do anything to get it. I imagine a lot
more “creative input” went into Aunty Entity but it just wasn’t the same. Don’t
over-think this one, just get an evil bastard and leave it like that. We don’t
want a comic-relief baddy like Dennis Hopper in Waterworld (in fact, wipe any memory
of Kevin Costner’s post-apocalyptic attempts from your mind).
Leather  Pretty simple this one. Leather outfits. I never owned anything leather myself (well, not clothing wise) but it’s a must in any post-apocalyptic film. At the very least all the bad guys need to be in leather (and throw in a load of shoulder pads, too). No Kids  No kids, absolutely no kids. Not even Emil Minty. Some Continuity + x =
A character from Max's past needs to turn up, even if it’s just in reference. This is a sequel, not a re-boot. We would like to see a reference to Bartertown, Goose perhaps, the Gyro Captain, the scientists from Road Warrior, the Thunderdome game. Anything really. Classic cars from the series? Yes please! A Train   This one is my
own personal idea, and may be a bad one, but I always thought a desert train,
modified and ran by the bad guys to ferry salvaged materials (or slaves etc) back and forth,
would make a great setting for an action sequence. It certainly would be
different. Something for the Guys...
 Finally, one for just the guys. We request at least one super-babe. Nobody wants to watch a film with wall-to-wall sweaty dudes. Tina Turner doesn’t count. |
