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The 20 ‘Maddest’ Characters in Mad Max: Part 2

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The second part of our top 20 of the ‘maddest’ characters in Mad Max continues. Check out the list of the most memorable people from the world of Mad Max rated from insane to straight up mad.

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10. The People Eater (John Howard) The man with pierced nipples and a nose that was eaten away long ago from the gas fumes from his home in Gastown has an affinity toward the dramatic and sadistic. His favorite thing on any menu besides gasoline is built right into his name.

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9. Master Blaster (Angelo Rossitto and Paul Larsson) –  These two guys are the actual heart of Bartertown in “Beyond Thunderdome.” Without them there would be no power or gas. Master (the brains) formulated a way to extract fuel from the methane in pig shit and holds his power over Bartertown and Aunty Entity every chance he gets. Blaster (the muscle) makes sure that nobody can hurt his little friend. Blaster is a hulking 9 foot simpleton that is able to snap necks like chicken bones. The only thing Master Blaster cares about is power and the ability to show that power through idealism or violence and sometimes a careful meshing of the two.

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8. Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) – The leader of the band of motorcycle riding marauders. Toecutter and his gang go around the outback wreaking havoc on anything that gets in their way. Murder, rape and methodical mind games are his style. When the cops disrespect his gang he goes out on a personal mission to hurt and bury everyone responsible. Him taking the lives of Max’s friend Jim Goose and running down his wife and child is solely responsible for the birth of Mad Max. Oh also, ladies might want to hide their ice cream he has an affinity to licking other peoples cones.

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7. The War Boys – These guys are the bones of citadel in “Fury Road.” Not only is their entire half-life built around “doing war,” but they have long given up drinking water (Aqua Cola) to instead concentrate on blood bag donors to help elongate their short lives and focus on dying with a mouth full of silver paint to enter Valhalla all shiny and chrome.

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6. The Doof Warrior (Iota) The mad bastard that we have come to love and know as the guitar guy in “Fury Road” is the stuff of genius. Obviously since war drums by themselves wouldn’t make enough noise to match the cavalcade of roaring engines that make up the pursuit party, we have The Doof Warrior cranking out shredding riffs on a guitar that double’s as a weapon and has a damned flame thrower built in.

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5. Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) – Furiosa, much like Max lost everything she cared about. She was taken from her home at a young age and has spent her life imprisoned but managed to take a position as an “Imperator,” leading the Warboys and earning her place behind the wheel of the coveted War Rig. She worked her way up the chain of command for years to gain enough leverage to take Immortan Joe’s only prized possession. Crossing Immortan Joe makes her one of the maddest in the wasteland.

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4. Lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) The damned “Ayatollah of rock ‘n’ rolla!” This guy one-upped Jason Voorhees’s hockey mask by instead wearing a badass hockey mask made of steel. This giant leads the marauders in “The Road Warrior” and is the source of all Max’s problems. When this guy makes deals look for the devil in the details, especially when offered a deal where you can “just walk away.” He believes in bondage, torture and anything on the same line as brutality. His deformities from the fallout are to blame for his choice to wear a mask. Take a peek inside the box where The Humungus keeps his .44 magnum for some quick glances at what his history might have been like.

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3. Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) – The boss man and deity in Citadel. This guy is a warlord who runs things in the area. Bulletfarm and Gastown take orders from this him. When not making war he forcibly makes babies with mothers taken from their homes who are forced to carry his future warlords. At the snap of his finger he can have a war party assembled and ready for whatever things he sees fit.With the War Boys, Bulletfarm and Gastown behind him he is a dangerous presence in the wasteland.

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2. Mad Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson/Tom Hardy) In a world that was falling apart, Max also managed to lose his wife, his baby, his friend and his sanity. There is no destination or hope for Max. He travels the wasteland strictly for survival. He encounters people and reluctantly helps them to one day hopefully reach some sort of catharsis. Max may be the reluctant “hero” but with nothing to lose and nothing to gain he is one of the maddest in the world. Oh, and he eats dog food and two headed geckos.

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1. George Miller – Director, Miller created an entire world with its very own mythos. Each of his characters is stuff only people who dream with fevers could invent. His balls-to-the-walls filmmaking, usage of stunts, and uncompromising vision has made him one of the most influential filmmakers over the past three decades. His long shooting schedules, methodical attention to detail in action and unique vision of an post apocalyptic hell make him the maddest bastard of them all!

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

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“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

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Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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