![]() It is not just the facilities that dress down for the occasion.Īttendees are required to fit in, which means a lot of torn leather, studs, grungy vests and goggles for protection from dust storms. Imagine San Diego Comic-Con but for fans of Mad Max and the Fallout console games, who are not too fussy about pristine restrooms. Mr Hileman is one of more than 2,000 desk jockeys who leave their day jobs to live out their fantasies as road warriors revelling in the collapse of civilization. "It's a chance to get away from the regular rat race life and have fun." "I used to do medieval fighting but I got too old for that and I thought: 'I'd love to this - I'll probably be the oldest person here, but I'll have a good time,'" he said. ![]() Joseph Hileman, 52, a security supervisor from Concord, near San Francisco, was persuaded to come along to the adults-only party by his son. This is the seventh year for the Wastelands Weekend, which was first held in 2010. Once a year, Wasteland City rises from the arid badlands of the northern Antelope Valley, a two-hour drive north from Los Angeles, to host the largest post-apocalyptic themed festival in the world. Whether via plague, nuclear war or spiders from Mars, the death throes of humanity are not supposed to be fun - but try telling that to these festival goers. Welcome to Wastelands Weekend, an annual festival of "cosplay" where fans of the Mad Max film franchise flock from all over the continent. More than 2,000 festival goers made the trek to California's Mojave Desert for the event.The festival began in 2010 and is inspired by the Mad Max movie franchise.Wasteland Weekend is the largest post-apocalyptic festival in the world.As one of the handful of directors credited for making the post-apocalypse mainstream, expectations are extremely high for Miller's next film.In combat boots, satin thongs and matching nipple tassels, the burlesque girls of the apocalypse celebrate the end of the world deep in the merciless dust of the Mojave Desert. Likewise, video game series like Fallout and Wasteland have more than done their part in popularizing fictional scenarios of human society's collapse. Miller's first three films essentially jump-started the post-apocalypse genre and inadvertently birthed dozens of notable films that also explore stories in the wasteland, including Edge of Tomorrow, Children of Men, The Road, The Matrix, Stalker, The Day After Tomorrow, and I Am Legend. Related: Mad Max: How Old Max Is In Every Movie Indeed, even for Miller, crafting the plot and characters for Mad Max 5 cannot be an easy task. ![]() Fortunately, this means Furiosa will be good for Mad Max 5, as the Miller prequel will allow the director better flesh out his post-apocalyptic world and continue developing stories that can keep the genre relevant for decades to come. Mad Max 5: The Wasteland director George Miller says that the story is not yet fully evolved, which is likely the main cause of the delay. As such, Mad Max fans may have nothing to worry about when it comes to the franchise’s future - although it will seemingly be quite some time before they find out. That said, Hardy has not been offered the role of 007 yet and may well turn down the part, particularly when the critical reception of recent Bond movies can’t compare to Fury Road’s unanimously glowing reviews. As such, fans of the Mad Max movies could reasonably be worried by the idea of Hardy taking on the role of Bond since this would lock him into another blockbuster series that is slow to release new movies. In fairness, COVID-19 caused some of No Time To Die’s release date delays, but the spy franchise was already slow to produce and release new movies before this issue arose. The suave super-spy’s recent cinematic adventures have been slow to arrive in cinemas, with three years elapsing between the release of Skyfall and Spectre and six between Spectre and No Time To Die. ![]() Meanwhile, playing James Bond would be another story entirely, since a 007 movie can’t get by without its leading man. ![]()
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