'Mad Max 4' Shooting in 3-D, Delayed Until Next Year?

Well, here's a development: Mad Max: Fury Road has been put on hold until next year, according to The Australian, leaving "several hundred crew without jobs." There's no official confirmation from the production company, though it's expected to come later this week. George Miller's secretive film - which we most recently reported could be two movies shooting at once - has apparently been postponed because Fury Road and Furiosa being shot back-to-back created some casting and screenwriting conflicts, which is not too hard to believe. However, the bigger issue is what's happening to filming in Australia in general. It has tried to put together attractive tax breaks for US studios to encourage more international filming, but with Louisiana now hosting more major productions than just about anywhere else and other states (New Mexico, Michigan) really getting aggressive in that regard, Australia makes less and less sense. The Australian writes that a number of film and TV ventures have taken a look at shooting there but have yet to commit, and that's hurting the film business quite a bit, as well as ancillary operations like hotels, restaurants, and film services companies that count on the money from a production the size of Mad Max or Alex Proyas' Year Zero. "While a number of Australian films continue to be shot here, the absence of a major international film has been particularly cruel to companies and crew in Queensland and [New South Wales]," the paper opines. "Such films often underwrite infrastructure and wages for cheaper Australian films." And there's the problem. As for Mad Max, there's no immediate timetable for when it might be back on, since there's no immediate confirmation that it's off, but this isn't the kind of start George Miller needed. But strangely enough, Miller recently told Inside Film that they're shooting the sequel (just one, or at least, no indication of two) in 3-D. So maybe there's no delay or maybe this is part of the reason why it would be."We are doing 3D on Fury Road - we are shooting with real 3D cameras," Miller confirmed. "Seven years ago we were going to shoot in 3D but the technology in cinemas wasn't geared for it then but I always loved 3D or stereo."

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[Kaveh]

I been waiting for this movie, but sounds like a long delay the way things are going. Everyone is to 3D crazy, I just want to the movies to be good.