{"id":2404,"date":"2002-02-04T19:45:32","date_gmt":"2002-02-04T18:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2015-05-15T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:20:53","slug":"brendan-fehr-mad-max-goes-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/02\/brendan-fehr-mad-max-goes-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fehr &#8211; Mad Max Goes Fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Tara Maclay for posting this on the Brendan Fehr Board<\/p>\n<p>From Dreamwatch magazine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George Miller has completed his script for MAD MAX 4, eyeing Roswell&#8217;s Brendan Fehr for the lead<\/p>\n<p>At the recent Australian Film Institute awards, Mad Max director George Miller confirmed that he has completed his final draft screenplay for the fourth film in the post-apocalyptic series, which previously starred Mel Gibson as former police officer Max Rockatansky.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting that he was pleased with his final draft, Miller revealed that casting was &#8220;in process.&#8221; Miller initially refused to be drawn on the possibility of Gibson returning, or reported plans to introduce a new character playing Max&#8217;s son. However, reports suggest Miller later confided that he hopes Gibson will return in a supporting part, but that Canadian-born actor Brendan Fehr is currently his favoured choice to lead the film. Best known for his role as alien Michael Guerin in UPN series Roswell, Fehr&#8217;s film roles include Final Destination and The Forsaken.<\/p>\n<p>In a break from previous films Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Beyond Thunderdome, the new production will not be filmed in Miller&#8217;s native Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Kennedy\/Miller, the Universal Pictures feature will enter production next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Tara Maclay for posting this on the Brendan Fehr Board From Dreamwatch magazine. George Miller has completed his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2376,3],"tags":[9,1048,111],"coauthors":[2260],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brendan-fehr","category-leading","tag-brendan-fehr","tag-mad-max","tag-rumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29000,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/29000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}