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Leto II — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 06:11 PM)
He couldn't possibly be the Feral Kid remember that the opening credits of the film explicitly name Hardy's character as "Max Rockatansky," and also in his introduction he literally says, "I used to be a cop."
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Leto II — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 06:23 PM)
Mad Max = 1994
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior = 2001
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome = 2015
Max is 23 in MM1, 30 in MM2 and 44 in MM3.
FURY ROAD is an alternate Mad Max Universe set in 2060. Max is 37 years old.
Though you're assuming here that Tom Hardy's character's age is the exactly same in the movie as Hardy in real life. In actuality, don't forget about the massive amount of onscreen evidence that points to Max being much, much older:- It's been at least one entire human generation since the apocalypse happened, long enough for the Furiosa character to have been born afterwards, grow to full adulthood, and not even know what the old world was like firsthand.
- Immortan Joe has several mutated offspring (born after the war), likewise quite older (in their 30s or 40s).
- The Vuvalini are now old women, but knew the pre-apocalyptic world well, and survived into the new reality afterward.
- Max Rockatansky was a cop in the old world, which ended at least thirty years previously. If he was 18 years old at minimum when the great collapse happened, he's at least 48 now, if not even older, assuming he was in his early twenties at that point.
Basically, the filmic chronology established onscreen in the movie only really makes sense when you consider that George Miller originally intended to direct this script featuring Mel Gibson, back in 2003 an older Max (in his mid-to-late fifties) would've made everything line up and make perfect sense, but when the role got recast with Tom Hardy, the actor changed, but unfortunately the chronology in the screenplay did not.
Everything that's onscreen now are artifacts of that older Mel Gibson incarnation of the film, and you mostly just have to squint a little and handwave away Hardy's younger age in real life, because the Max Rockatansky character in
Fury Road
is clearly far older than he looks.
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TJenkins602 — 9 years ago(October 26, 2016 12:53 PM)
Yeah, Fury Road was originally intended as a follow up to Beyond Thunderdome starring Mel Gibson. While Tom Hardy is 37 and looks more or less that age, Mel Gibson has also played 40+ year old Max, even though he was in his twenties (He sure didn't look 40+ in Beyond Thunderdome).
I always imagined Fury Road to take place after Thunderdome. However, as of right now, George Miller does not seem to be 100% certain where this film falls in the storyline. A couple of popular theories are that it takes place between The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome and it takes place after Thunderdome.
Then there is the idea that the Mad Max movies are legends passed down through generations.
But what I like is that any theory could work when it comes to the chronology of Mad Max.
One interesting thing to note is that Max has two good eyes in Fury Road, while he has only one good eye in Beyond Thunderdome, presumably because of the events of The Road Warrior.
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clickbait — 9 years ago(November 09, 2016 03:14 PM)
Since Mel Gibson asked of to much money to mantle the role as Max again, Miller made a soft reboot instead and instead of showing the first movie again, he just tell us about it in the beginning of FRthat means, Road Warrior and Thunderdome isnt even considered as part of this new max story anymore and this first Mad Max movie could have had a different story, all we gets to know is that he used to be a cop like this movie and his famly got killed but not how or by whomanywayFR is the first movie of a new Mad Max trioligy and Tom Hardy is now the same charcater but have made his own take on the charcater Max, instead of playing him exactly the same way Mel did.
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vicky_lc2001 — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 04:58 PM)
Where did you guys hear that Gibson wanted too much money or that he didn't want to reprise the role 14 years ago?
From Miller's interview, they planned on doing it together but 9/11 happened, then the Gibson controversy happened, and then finally, Mel simply got too old.