MEL GIBSON MAY BE BACK AS MAX AFTER ALL

Director George Miller has already confirmed that he would like Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in the fourth "Mad Max" movie, Hardy (Bronson, RocknRolla) still says that he has yet to get an official offer and has made statements that his audition had nothing to do with the lead character.



It just so happens that Mel Gibson's production company Icon Entertainment has just announced that it will be co-producing the new film. Does this mean that we are getting closer to Gibson reprising his role?

The Archive predicts that by the time this film goes before the lens it will be Gibson playing an aged Mad Max. Well - stranger things have happened.

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Mad Mel Movie news

Tom Mankiewicz, writer of several of the James Bond movies, has revealed in an interview with Entertainment Female First that Mel Gibson's dream of playing James Bond were almost fulfilled but the actor was considered to short to play 007.

"At one point Mel Gibson wanted to play Bond. And Cubby was against it. Cubby first of all had a thing about tall people." Tom Mankiewicz

Rumours are also circulating the Mel Gibson will lose out on playing Mad Max in the forthcoming Mad Max 4 because he is deemed too old. Charlie Theron will play the role in the apocalyptic thriller.

PAYBACK

I saw this movie a few years back and remember enjoying it but, in those days, I never knew anything about the Richard Stark/Parker book on which it was based. And then recently I read my first Parker - The Hunter and was so impressed that I wanted to see the movie again.

And so one Amazon order later the disc is spinning in my DVD player.

Okay it's still an enjoyable enough movie but after reading the book the flaws become visible. Firstly in this movie the Parker character is called Porter - I don't understand the reasoning behind the name change. And secondly although the character goes against Mel Gibson's "NICE GUY" image (or at least the image he used to have) it's still a watered down version of the remarkable character Richard Stark/Donald Westlake invented.

There are a few major plot changes too - although the reasoning for Porter/Parker's wife double crossing and shooting him is stronger than the book, the rest of the film, particularly the Hollywood ending, is much weaker.

Mel Gibson is fine in the role and does come across, for the most part, as the nasty lowlife of the books but as always the book is far inferior to the source material.

A good film then, very good in fact, but not exactly Richard Stark's Parker. In fact I think I liked it a lot more when I didn't have the book to compare it with.

The other film based on the book was Point Blank which again I haven't seen for years but I've got that movie on the way so expect a review here soon.