'Mad Max: Fury Road' News, Cast & Spoilers: Nicholas Hoult Reveals Movie Will Be Like Silent Film
In seven months, "Mad Max: Fury Road" will hit theaters and is likely to be one of the biggest films of next summer.
The movie is currently in post-production and star Nicholas Hoult has already seen a rough cut. According to the actor, the film is spectacular. During an interview with MTV he said, "I've seen a rough cut. I was just sitting there, going like, 'Whoa.'"
The actor also revealed that the film has very little dialogue, which is something unusual for a Hollywood blockbuster.
As a matter of fact, most blockbusters are filled with dialogue and extensive action sequences. The last time a film had limited dialogue was "Gravity," but that film was filled with monologues. The opening of "Wall-E" is a better example but that was a children's movie.
Art house films tend to experiment in this way. J.C Chandor's "All Is Lost" was void of dialogue save for a few words and "The Artist" was a silent film made like ones from the 1920s.
During his interview with MTV, Hoult said the script was more like reading "a 300-page comic book, technically."
He added, "You have the odd word, but the dialogue, it's strange, the words they used. They didn't speak like I would speak, or like anybody would speak nowadays."
"Fury Road" has already been described as one gigantic chase sequence featuring Tom Hardy as the titular character Mad Max, with other visually dazzling characters played by Charlize Theron and others.
Hoult added that the film is visually beautiful and it is due in part to director George Miller's guidance. He said, "He's so smart. The world he's created, it just looks stunning."
"Mad Max" is the fourth installment in the hit series from the 1970s and it is Miller's return to the action film. Miller has not done a live action film since 1998. He recently ventured in the animated film with "Happy Feet," which won an Oscar. In 2011, he made the terribly-received "Happy Feet Two," which flopped at the box office.
The director is one of the most respected in the industry and, with these revelations, it is likely the film will be a huge hit.
Hoult is currently having the year of his life. In the summer he starred in the hit film "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and recently he starred in the post-apocalyptic film "The Young Ones." He currently has a number of projects in post-production in "Dark Places" with Theron and Chloe Grace Moretz, "Autobahn" with Felicity Jones and "Kill Your Friends" with James Corden.
"Mad Max: Fury Road" will tell the story of two rebels on the run who are capable of restoring order; Max, a man of action and few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos, and Furiosa, a woman of action who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
The film is set to open on May 15 and Warner Bros. will release.
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