Watch: Charlize Theron & Tom Hardy Are Bad-Ass In The New Trailer For ‘Mad Max Fury Road’
Hollywood has mastered the art of the remake, the reboot, the reimagining, the do-over, sequel, prequel — leveraging an existing property and slicing it every which way you can to milk it for all it’s worth. The new black, however, or at least flavor of recent months, is the midstream rebuild: taking your favorite franchise and basically disregarding the lesser chapters of the story to create a kind of parallel universe that cleaves itself in between existing movies. Case in point, you’ve got an upcoming “Alien” movie from director Neill Blomkamp. While the plot is unclear, and he’s been overly polite to “Alien” installments three and four, it’s apparent that he’s picking up the continuity of the story right where it left off at the end of James Cameron’s “Aliens.” The new "Terminator: Genisys" essentially ignores the "bad" pictures in that franchise.
Another movie doing the same sort of thing is “Mad Max: Fury Road” by director George Miller. He...