Mad Max: Fury Road Delayed? Blame it on the Penguins!

If you weren't buying George Miller's reason behind the Mad Max: Fury Road delay (Damn you, Australian weather!), then this confirms your suspicions. Hey, remember kids, he swore up and down Justice League: Mortal wasn't DOA when all evidence, common-sense and plain old logic said otherwise.

Screen Hub (who require you to pay up for access – bastards; but thankfully Movie Hole has the info) says Warner Brothers wants Miller's full and undivided attention on Happy Feet 2 as that has a November 2011 release locked.

Adding fuel to that fire is the commercial under-performance of WB's current animated Legends of the Guardians and the fact that its director Zack Snyder wasn't focused 100% during production. To be fair, he was up to his eyeballs on Sucker Punch at the same time.

Nonetheless, the Happy Feet sequel is understandably the bigger priority. For his sake, I hope Miller finally gets his fourth Mad Max installment going, but maybe the world is generally "Meh" about seeing the leather-clad action-hero Max Rockatansky again.