Max Rockatansky Film" ranked him #75 in their Top 100 Movie Characters of All Time. 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
Mad Max: Fury Road stories to tell." Later in May, Miller revealed that plans for the sequel had changed and the fifth film in the franchise will instead be titled "Mad Max: The Wasteland". In October 2015, Miller's team had two scripts for sequels which they ended up with during the writing process. Later that month, he clarified that "Mad Max: The Wasteland" was a working title for the sequel. Miller reaffirmed his intent to continue the franchise after reports to the contrary surfaced following an interview in January 2016. In November 2017, it was reported that a lawsuit filed by Miller's production company