"Mad Max: Fury Road" starring Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult and Charlize Theron has an official release date.
The fourth "Mad Max" film is set to hit theaters May 15, 2015, according to Variety. The action thriller will be director by George Miller, and filming began in summer of 2012.
"Physical production on George Miller's fourth Mad Max movie, Mad Max: Fury Road, seemed to be all but done this year," Den of Geek reported. "It's little secret that this is a movie where practical effects work is set to trump CG, and so there was always still going to be a little bit of sorting out to be done in mail-production."
Another action film moviegoers can look forward to summer of 2015 is the upcoming "Man of Steel" sequel, "Batman vs. Superman." With production set to begin early 2014, producer Charles Roven spoke with Variety about the movie's script and casting decisions.
"On Batman vs. Superman, we started soft prep in June, and we'll be shooting eight months later...Our intention was to bring Superman into the 21st century with a contemporary character and a different kind of superhero than what's out there right now," Roven told Variety.
"We knew we had created a world and we had left Easter eggs in the movie that let people know that in the universe that Zack Snyder was creating, there was the possibility of other DC characters besides Clark Kent," Roven added. "We have a first draft, and we're continuing to work with it. Those scripts are never fully finished until the movie is in the theaters."
Roven also defended the decision to cast Ben Affleck as the Caped Crusader. Director Zack Snyder and Roven had a specific vision in mind when casting their version of Batman.
"We wanted a guy who had a certain age and a certain gravitas to what he had done in terms of [Affleck's] recent work," Roven said. "If you take a look at The Town and Argo, he plays a couple of serious guys in those movies. He's a big man. He's also a mature man. As you see him and Henry Cavill together, one definitely has much more experience just by looking at him. That's what we wanted, particularly juxtaposed against our Superman."
"Batman vs. Superman" is set to launch July 17, 2015.
