Max Rockatansky Max Rockatansky Max Rockatansky is the title character and protagonist of the post-apocalyptic action films from the "Mad Max" franchise, which spans 1979 to 2015. He appears in the films "Mad Max", "Mad Max 2", "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", and "". Created by director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy, the character was played by actor Mel Gibson in the first three films, and by Tom Hardy in the fourth. In "Mad Max", Max Rockatansky is a Main Force Patrol officer tasked with maintaining law and order on the roads of a dystopic Victoria, Australia. Max is quiet, rarely speaking
Mad Max: Fury Road the early stages. The project was given the green light to begin filming in the Australian desert in May 2003 with a budget of US$100 million, but the location was ruined by rainfall. "Mad Max 4" entered then a hiatus in light of security concerns related to its Namibian shoot because of tightened travel and shipping restrictions at the onset of the Iraq War. In November 2006, Miller stated that he intended to make "Fury Road" and that the film was never going to involve Gibson: "There's a real hope. The last thing I wanted to do is another "Mad