Credit to seriz for posting! Figured it'd deserved its own thread though!
Thirty-five years ago, George Miller re-imagined the action movie with his visceral, dystopic 1979 debut Mad Max, starring a 23-year-old Mel Gibson in one of his first movie roles. Flash forward two sequels and many decades later and the 69-year-old Miller returns with a new cast and a story that is sure to take the road chase to an entirely new realm of chaos and carnage.
In an exclusive first look at the the May 2015 film in this week’s Entertainment Weekly, we talk to Miller about what prompted his return to the beloved franchise: a story that popped into his head fully formed back in 2000 but that took more than a decade to realize. This time, Tom Hardy takes over for Gibson as the very damaged road warrior Max Rockatansky, while a shaved-headed Charlize Theron plays a bad-ass commander named Imperator Furiosa. The stars spent a harrowing seven months in the desert of Namibia to shoot the film. “It was mental in a brilliant way,” says Hardy. “You have no concrete, no coffee shops. We were in the middle of a sandpit.”
The rugged production suited Miller and his singular vision to reboot the Mad Max franchise. “I wanted to tell a linear story–a chase that starts as the movie begins and continues for 110 minutes,” says the Australian writer-director. Fury Road features few digital effects and even less dialogue, he explains. “In this crucible of very intense action, the characters are revealed.”
DGSimo wrote:Credit to seriz for posting! Figured it'd deserved its own thread though!
eh eh i didn't know where to put it !
Hope you didn't mind me posting it then! We should get more photos in the next day or two. Hopefully this also means they're going to be releasing a trailer soon...
I've heard reports that Warner Bros is worried about the movie, and when you see that description - a 110 minute chase scene with little dialogue - you understand why. Becuase this has the hallmarks of a classic, and studios just don't know what to do with that kind of movie anymore.
FYI I'll try and pick up a handful of the new issue for board members and fans that are outside the US since EW is only available here for the print and digital version.
No charge and will be my gift to you guys but they'll be going snail mail since it's cheap!
Hmm. Possible spoilers below from that same Badassdigest link..
Jacob Michael Hanania
I was at a screening of The Road Warrior with Terry Hayes in Toronto, and he said that George Miller allowed him to see some footage from the new flick. The only bit he shared with us was that the opening scene was, if I remember correctly, *SPOILER ALERT* this enormous single-cut helicopter shot with TONS of crazy vehicles and extras, and that it spun around this giant truck-looking thing where a band was rocking out ON the hood (someone please feel free to correct me if I remember this incorrectly) and flames were shooting out of their guitars. I hope it's as insane as it sounds. Terry Hayes was getting extremely giddy when explaining it.
