Mel Brings Back 'Mad Max'

Posted Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 3:40 PM Central

by John Couture

Hollywood legend Mel Gibson is returning to his roots in his latest project. Mel has agreed to reprise his character of Max Rockatansky in Fury Road. You might know the character better as Mad Max.

Original director George Miller has been working for four years on the latest script and Mel took a look at it over the Summer and sat for a few screen tests before finally signing on to the project. Fox is planning a Summer 2004 platform release to support the rumored $25 million deal that Mel received as compensation.