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 (franchise) released internationally in 1980. It became a top-grossing Australian film, while holding the record in the "Guinness Book of Records" for decades as the most profitable film ever created, and has been credited for further opening the global market to Australian New Wave films. "Mad Max 2" (also known as "The Road Warrior") is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller. This sequel to Miller's "Mad Max" was a worldwide box office success that further launched the career of Mel Gibson. The film's tale of a community of settlers moved to defend themselves against a roving