Mad Max: Fury Road shoot rolls on
[Mon 02/09/2013 07:09:00]
By Don Groves
The fourth edition of George Miller’s Mad Max franchise finished principal photography last December after a six-month shoot in Namibia and South Africa.
But that’s far from a wrap for Mad Max: Fury Road. Three weeks of additional shooting will begin in Sydney on November 22.
Casting calls have gone out for a number of roles, all believed to be non—speaking, including an Aboriginal elder, a girl, youth and husband and wife.
Talent agents have been told the producers are looking for odd, idiosyncratic faces. Given the post-Apocalyptic setting, all must have slim builds.
IF understands at least some members of the ensemble cast have also been asked to take part in the three-week shoot.
Fury Road follows Mad Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), who is caught up with a group of people fleeing across the Wasteland in a war rig driven by Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron).
Nicholas Hoult plays Nux, with Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe and Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus. Playing a group known as The Wives are Zoe Kravitz as Toast, Riley Keough as Capable, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as Splendid, Abbey Lee Kershaw as The Dag and Courtney Eaton as Fragile. Mel Gibson, the original Max, has a cameo as a character named Drifter.
The bulk of the film was shot in the Namibian desert although production moved to the Cape Town Film Studio towards the end of the shoot. Deluxe Australia is working on the post-production and visual effects.
IMDB.com lists the Warner Bros-Village Roadshow Pictures production as a 2014 release. However the film doesn’t appear on Roadshow’s release schedule.
It’s likely that few people apart from Miller and producer Doug Mitchell know when it’ll be finished and ready to release.
November? That's almost 1 year after principle photography ended. I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing. It also makes a 2015 release more likely in my view.
The article also repeats the Mel Gibson "rumor" that's been on IMDb for some time. Maybe there's some truth to it.
biolumen wrote:
November? That's almost 1 year after principle photography ended. I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing. It also makes a 2015 release more likely in my view.
The article also repeats the Mel Gibson "rumor" that's been on IMDb for some time. Maybe there's some truth to it.
If the principle cast is needed, especially Hardy, then November makes sense as he's been tied up with work and roles after FR wrapped and that timeframe is probably the only available time for him. Makes me wonder, I wonder if they're doing pickups to film those scenes that decided to cut and not film in the Cape Town lot in favor of more vehicular carnage? Also if the original shoot was so "troubled" as people like to say then why and how is Miller able to get more money and time from the studio to even do pickups?
Regarding the Gibson rumour I just chalk that up to the article using IMDB.com which still has "The Drifter" listed.
Just to confirm what we already know, someone posted this to Badassdigest.com.
I know someone who worked on the film. He had a lovely time hanging out on the shoot... which is good, because there was a lot of hanging out.
From his account, the stars didn't get along. There was a lot of attitude. They showed up late, or left early. Shooting always began later than expected. Production fell way, way behind.
The day scheduled for film to end shooting arrived, the movie wasn't done, and the studio said, "Okay. That's it," and shooting ended.
The movie simply isn't finished.
I don't think this is about tinkering or re-shoots (though there may be that). From the story I heard, it's about about shooting the rest of the script -- because the movie isn't shot yet.
biolumen wrote:Just to confirm what we already know, someone posted this to Badassdigest.com.
I know someone who worked on the film. He had a lovely time hanging out on the shoot... which is good, because there was a lot of hanging out.
From his account, the stars didn't get along. There was a lot of attitude. They showed up late, or left early. Shooting always began later than expected. Production fell way, way behind.
The day scheduled for film to end shooting arrived, the movie wasn't done, and the studio said, "Okay. That's it," and shooting ended.
The movie simply isn't finished.
I don't think this is about tinkering or re-shoots (though there may be that). From the story I heard, it's about about shooting the rest of the script -- because the movie isn't shot yet.
Lord, I believe it was but a stupid decision on WB's part. They built almost a dozen sets ready to be used and then WB pulls the plug only to approve, and most likely finance, 3 more weeks of filming for probably for the very same scenes and sets they put a stop to a year ago.
(2018 relase date 
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