But this is football —
not Thunderdome.
Not exact matches
Director George Miller (who works on the kid - friendly Happy Feet and Babe franchises when he isn't wreaking havoc in a post-apocalyptic hellscape) returns to create a new chapter in the Mad Max chronicles that he started 30 years ago with the Mel Gibson - starring trilogy Mad Max, The Road Warrior and Mad Max: Beyond
Thunderdome.
This isn't really a sequel to the three previous movies — the low - budget «Mad Max» (1979), the hugely influential «Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior» (1981) and the Tina Turner - tastic «Mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome» (1985)-- nor is it a remake.
If there's a specific modern mythology to which this series most obviously hews, it's the Arthur myth, and in
Thunderdome, when asked if he's the return of the fabled Captain Walker, Max responds that he isn't.
George Miller is making his first live - action movie in seventeen years, and his first action movie since «Mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome» thirty years ago, which would make this noteworthy even if it wasn't for the astounding footage and breathless buzz.
While
not as elaborate as the «Mad Max» version, South Oak Cliff's
thunderdome was allegedly just as brutal.