New Mad Max Movie… but it’s a 3D Anime film…

George Miller himself confirms it. The question is, will it resonate with audiences, considering the audience for Mad Max is either a) having been young in the 1970s, or b) Australian.

Making a Mad Max movie seems to be more sensible a transition than the alleged Twilight anime, considering that if there’s anything anime is just as famous for as fanservice and ecchi, it’s violence. In fact it probably makes a whole lot of sense to make a Mad Max anime, only George Miller wants to make it 3D like the Appleseed remakes or something.

This could be problematic in selling it to audiences who are used to live action, low budget Mad Max. And it calls into question the credibility of a new Mad Max movie if it is a CG anime film. At least to fans of the original three movies. I’ll tell you what I mean.

In Australia, there was once two things Australia was guaranteed famous for world wide. One was Steve Irwin, but he died of a stingray attack. The other was Mad Max, a post apocalyptic road movie which has inspired many non-Australian films and video games like the grim RPG series of Fallout games. It’s so famous in Australians in terms of our cinema history, that Mad Max is practically a cultural institution of Australian cinema.

Even Quentin Tarantino knows that. He said so in the documentary Not Quite Hollywood. There are few things Australians can be proud of at all times. Mad Max remains one of the only things I can pull out of my sleeve to justify the existence of Australia as a country to American bloggers and even Singaporean bloggers who call Australia “Ausfailia”. Stephen Conroy may be planning to censor our internet, and he’ll probably fail, but the jibes at our political and cultural failures will remain. You know what else remains? Mad Max. I mean seriously: this film was put in the National Screen and Sound Archive so I have heard.

As an Australian who has actually watched all three Mad Max films as a sort of patriotic duty to my country, I’m both excited and confused about this announcement from George Miller. Will a CG Anime Mad Max work? I can’t say I know the answer to that. Does Mad Max prove that Australia doesn’t suck? Hell yes.

This trailer is the American dub of Mad Max designed to sell it to American audiences. Pity. The Australian original is much more awesome:

Which version do you like better? I’ll be hoping you prefer the Aussie one. Because it’s mostly all I have to convince you that Australia did not suck at some point in history. Anime Mad Max sequel or not.