Mel
Gibson in Mad Max 2.
Garry Maddox, The Sydney Morning Herald, reports
Australian director George Miller's road to making a new Mad Max
movie is proving hazardous. Hollywood studio Warner Bros is concerned enough
about the production of Mad
Max: Fury Road veering off schedule and over budget that it is
sending a representative to the set in Namibia.
According to The
Hollywood Reporter, studio head Jeff Robinov flew to the African
set a few weeks ago to evaluate the fourth Mad Max movie, which had fallen at
least five days behind schedule.
It has now dispatched producer Denise di Novi to the set as ''the
eyes and ears of Warners''.
Robinov told The
Hollywood Reporter he is optimistic the production, which has a
budget of more than $100 million, will still wrap on schedule in November.
Fury Road has been shooting in Namibia since July with
Tom Hardy (Inception,
The Dark Knight Rises)
taking over from Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky. Charlize Theron has shaven her
head to play the one-armed villain Furiosa.
With only limited film services and infrastructure, Namibia was
always going to be a challenging place to film. It was chosen after consistent
rain, which made the desert too green and covered with flowers to pass as
a post-apocalyptic landscape, twice delayed filming at Broken Hill.
Almost a decade ago, Miller came within weeks of shooting Fury Road in Namibia
before financial issues and the Iraq war intervened.
Before heading to the set earlier this year, cinematographer John
Seale told Fairfax he was excited about what Miller was planning.
''This one I swear won't disappoint,'' he said. ''It's going to be
a very deep and meaningful film as well as an astonishing action film.''
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