From Moviehole:
‘’Mad Max 4’’ is on – only the post-apocalyptic road warrior will seem a little more, er, animated than usual.
George Miller has announced that his long-gestating “Mad Max 4 : Fury Road” is going ahead – but there’ll be no need for Mel Gibson to reprise his role as Max, nor any other actor to play the leather-clad hero for that matter. The “Happy Feet” director will be doing the sequel as a 3D animated offering (and Gibson hasn’t been asked to voice the character, no).
MTV says the R-rated, stereoscopic toon sequel will borrow elements from that original Fury Road script Miller penned years ago (with the intention that Mel Gibson would reprise his role as Max) but add some new things too.
“The anime is an opportunity for me to shift a little bit about what anime is doing because anime is ripe for an adjustment or sea change,” he explained. “It’s coming in games and I believe it’s the same in anime. There’s going to be a hybrid anime where it shifts more towards Western sensibilities. [Japanese filmmaker Akira] Kurosawa was able to bridge that gap between the Japanese sensibilities and the West and make those definitive films.”