STACK #129 Jul 2016

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STACK IS HEADING TO SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2015

W oo hoo! The annual San Diego Comic-Con International is the biggest pop culture event on the planet, generating more interest than a payday loan. It's where all the major announcements are made regarding the upcoming films and TV series on everybody's radar, and this year, STACK will be at ground zero from July 9–12, attending as many of the panels and press conferences as is

humanly possible to bring you all the big news as it breaks. And getting mighty familiar with the layout of the San Diego Convention Centre venue. We'll also be catching up with the lucky winners of 20th Century Fox's Comic-Con competition – if you bought one of the specially stickered Fox TV titles on DVD from JB in April or May, it could be you! From The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

and the Star Wars: The Force Awakens panel, to hotly anticipated new series like The Expanse, Minority Report and Ash vs. Evil Dead , as well as new seasons of Vikings , Doctor Who and Supernatural , STACK will be flat out like a lizard drinking. Follow all the breaking

I n the opening scene of Mad Max: Fury Road , we're introduced to our hero Max Rocatansky (Tom Hardy) as he helps himself to a mutant lizard for a bit of late arvo snack. That's about the only breather you get as the fuel-injected action kicks in, for a post-apocalyptic wild ride like no other. But amidst the unparalleled spectacle, there are some unanswered questions – like who is the kid in the flashbacks that are haunting Max? For fans clamouring for some backstory on Max and fellow protagonist Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), filmmaker and creator George Miller has worked on a series of prequel comics expanding on their history and the dangerous world they inhabit. Mad Max: Fury Road - Furiosa #1 is available now from DC Comics, while Mad Max: Fury Road - Mad Max #2 will be out in August, revealing the origin of the visions and flashbacks plaguing Max throughout the course of Fury Road . From the comic previews, we can confirm that it's a young girl called Glory, whom Max encountered while trying to reclaim his stolen V8 interceptor. For those new to the legend of Mad Max, our beleaguered hero also lost a son of his own, in similarly dramatic circumstances, in the original 1979 film. It's no wonder the loss of another young child became too much for Mr. Rockatansky to bear. Get ready to buckle up once again for another wild ride on September 9, when Mad Max: Fury Road speeds onto Blu-ray and DVD. WHAT DROVE MAX MAD?

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SIZE DOESN'T MATTER

P ortraying possibly the smallest superhero in the galaxy, Ant-Man, Paul Rudd intends to demonstrate that size doesn’t matter. “If you’re Ant-Man, some people might think that it lacks the innate sexiness of something like Iron Man,” laughs Rudd when STACK caught up with up with him in Las Vegas recently, where his new role has already led to him being honoured as Male Star of the Year at CinemaCon. “So I think we understand and have some fun with that and don’t take it too seriously. And I know you hear, ‘How can Ant-Man be cool?’ or ‘What would be cool about that?’, so one of the things I’m most excited about is that audiences will finally see that Ant-Man is really cool,” adds Rudd, 46, who stars as former felon Scott Lang, whose special suit enables him to shrink to microscopic size while his helmet allows him to communicate with his namesake creatures. In a 20-year career spanning drama, action and comedy – and

now superhero-dom – Rudd brings both humour and pathos to the little insect guy, who'll also be tasked with holding his own in the lofty company of Thor, Iron Man, Captain America and The Hulk in the already-in-the-works Captain America: Civil War. “It’s surreal. Those things happen every once in a while and you just kind of stop and reflect. Sometimes life is magical and that’s how I feel right now. I’m just thrilled I’ll be getting to put the suit on again.” Not to boast, he already reckons he has the best suit of all. “It's impossible not to put on that kind of suit and not feel a little heroic; 'little' being the operative word here! But it looks really cool. From the first time I tried it on, I just really enjoyed it,” says the actor, whose Ant-Man co-stars include Michael Douglas’s ant-suit inventor and Evangeline Lilly as his fearless daughter. Gill Pringle

Mad Max: Fury Road comic

Ant-Man is in cinemas from July 16. For more on what's on at the movies this month, go to page 19.

Mad Max (1979)

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Strong violence, sex scenes and coarse language

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