How Mad Max Made The Post-Apocalypse Cool — Life Lessons
“I'm the guy who carries Mr. Dead in his pocket.” – Mad Max (Mel Gibson) in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Tom Hardy, the English actor who played Bane in 'The Dark Knight Rises,' is set to star as Mad Max in the upcoming franchise reboot 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Mad Max films, they're the movies that made a pre-controversy-courting Mel Gibson an international superstar. Those films, especially 'The Road Warrior,' also made the post-apocalyptic world seem pretty damn cool.