Mad Max 4 ... and it's not good news. With the movie delayed yet again, all cst announcements (or predictions, or inspired guesses) made in the past are void. If you check Sam Worthington's page at IMDB.com, you won't see a mention of Mad Max 4 there. [AG sighs heavily]
The reason for the current delay: Climate Change-1, Max Rockatansky-0.
Seriously. This ran on the ABC in October, and they were not joshing you:
Filming of George Miller's fourth Mad Max, Fury Road, has been postponed for a second time.
Production is now expected to begin in Broken Hill in 2012.
Accommodation provider Hugh Gough says he received an email from Kennedy Miller
Productions at the weekend informing him filming would not start in February as planned.
Mr Gough says no reason was given for the delay.
This is the second time the film has been delayed. In July, Kennedy Miller Productions said unseasonal rains had made Broken Hill too fertile.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/11/3034506.htm
If I had to make an inspired guess, I'd say Kennedy Miller will have to shoot around Sam Worthington's schedule ... no longer do you just give out your orders about when you want to shoot. He's a busy boy and a mega-star. That'll push the scheduling for the movie around -- and there's no guarantee you can get him in any case.
Also, you wait for Mama Nature to turn the Broken Hill region back into an iron oxide desert, if you want Mad Max to look like, well, like Mad Max. No good filming there, if it looks like Ireland! See what climate change is doing, and how real it is? Sheesh. Can't even make a movie without being sabotaged by fields of flowers in a region that oughtta look like the planet Mars.
Breaking into song for a second, "You must remember this..."
And it's a real pity the delays have caused the cast to evaporate, because I could really believe Sam Worthington in this part...
Back to the drawing board. Patience is a virtue ... I guess. Well, poop.
