Director George Miller's Mad Max film Fury Road to hit cinemas in 2015 Mel Gibson, as the original Mad Max, makes an appearance in Fury Road. The new Mad Max film won't be unleashing its fury on the international box office for another 18 months. Warner Bros and Village Roadshow announced today that the hotly anticipated reboot, starring Tom Hardy in the title role, will hit cinemas on May 2015. George Miller shot Fury Road , the fourth film in the post-apocalyptic series, in Namibia after rain turned the original Broken Hill location into a green oasis. But the post-production is being carried out in NSW. It is not known whether the delay has anything to do with the reshoots, confirmed by Hardy on the red carpet at the BFI Film Festival earlier this month. (Mad Max) is great, it's a big old beast, it's a behemoth. I'm off out there next week to do some reshoots - well, not reshoots actually, we're doing more. Building more Mad Max that's even more spectacular. According to Deadline.com, Mel Gibson makes an appearance in the new film, which is to be released more than 35 years after the groundbreaking original.