Confusion over fourth Mad Max film

MovieHole recently announced that Tom Hardy and probably not Sam Worthington have been rumored to take over the role of Max in the Mad Max film franchise.

Mel Gibson, who rose to cinematic fame in the original Australian "Mad Max" and "The Road Warrior" movies, announced some years ago he had no desire or intention of returning to the role he reprised in "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome".

George Miller will supposedly begin production work on "Mad Max 4: Fury Road" next year. Max is a survivor living in a post-apocalyptic Australia, which presumably survived a nuclear war better than other parts of the Earth. Nonetheless, despite hanging on to some semblance of civilization in "Mad Max", by "The Road Warrior" Australia's outback had become the province of leather-clad, gas-gazzling savages.

In "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" Max undermined the efforts of Tina Turner and her leather-clad barbarians to restore a semblance of civilization in BarterTown. Nonetheless, me managed to lead a ragtag group of orphaned teenagers and a very small genius of a man to the ruins of a coastal city (possibly Melbourne?), where most of them settled and rebooted civilization for real.

Bruce Spence ("Legend of the Seeker") played Max's aviator associate in "The Road Warrior" and "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome". One has to wonder where Miller thinks he can take the franchise now, unless he means to jump on the reboot bandwagon.

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