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Charlize Theron will star in the fourth outing of the Max Max franchise - Fury Road - alongside Brit thesp Tom Hardy of Black Hawk Down fame.

George Miller, who launched Mel Gibson to stardom with the original 1979 Max Max, and went on to helm The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome, will direct the movie from his own screenplay.

The script for Mad Max 4 has been knocking around since 2003, Variety notes, and Miller was in the early stages of pre-production when "security concerns over trying to film in Namibia put the project on the back burner".

The revitalised project is now coming together in New South Wales, but Miller refused to be drawn on whether Mel Gibson would return to the role. He said: "It could be Mel, it could be anyone." ®

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why do I.....

Get the feeling that this will be like fast and the furious, but with dirty cars !!!

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I have two words for you:

Eric bloody Bana.

No-one else could pull of the swagger of Max.

"If ya wanna get out of here, ya talk to me."

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this could be great.... but i fear it won't be

the old films look so very dated

it'd be cool to see one with modern special fx

but it has to be all about the battles on the Road.

the first one's a brilliant classic

the 2nd is great, the finale battle with the tanker is ace, but it's criminal that his Interceptor gets toasted before that

and the 3rd, if he's not chugging along in a train he's trekking through the desert finding quicksand or upto his pelvis in pigsh!t

what we want to see is a heavily modified 1973 Ford XB Falcon Hardtop burning along endless barren roadways, with either Max or his protege at the wheel dispensing much needed justice in a world gone to hell

i fear what we'll get is something heavily sponsored by Honda where all the scum of the post-apocalyptic wasteland are seen to be car-pooling in their environmentally freindly hydrogen powered vehicles

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