TV Article Mel Gibson signs on for fourth ''Mad Max'' movie Mel Gibson signs on for fourth ''Mad Max'' movie. He'll earn a reported $25 million to reunite with ''Road Warrior'' filmmaker George Miller By Gary Susman Gary Susman Gary Susman is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2009. EW's editorial guidelines Published on December 10, 2002 05:00AM EST Petroleum may be scarce in the post-apocalyptic Australian Outback, but the ”Mad Max” franchise has apparently not run out of gas. Variety reports that Mel Gibson has signed on to play the Aussie road warrior a fourth time, in an adventure called ”Fury Road” for Twentieth Century Fox. He’ll earn $25 million for the picture, which is budgeted at $104 million and will shoot next May. George Miller, who wrote and directed the first three movies, will perform the same duties again. (”Road Fury” will mark his first directing gig since the more family-friendly ”Babe” movies in 1995 and ’98. It’ll be the first ”Max” movie since 1985’s ”Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.”) Miller has kept details of the screenplay close to the vest. ”The script’s been so tightly controlled, it would have been easier to get into the NSA [National Security Administration],” Fox production president Hutch Parker tells Variety.