When Fury Road went into pre-production and they started assembling parts for cars, Scott Smith received a call to supply parts to build a set of new Mad Max Interceptors. At the time I helped him put together some instructional material on how to fit the various bits and pieces to the cars (let's be serious, he instructed, I just filmed it), and of course I couldn't resist taking my picture amongst all the bits and pieces - would be cool to be able to post it in a couple of years when the film came out I thought.
The picture below was taken on February 8th, 2003. These were all the parts Scott supplied for the Interceptor as originally intended in the film at that time - fibreglass, blower assemblies, etc. He did supply some subsequent materials, and the cars also evolved more than a little from what was originally conceived to what ended up on screen more than 10 years later. When you think about how long they worked on this, it really is a testament to everyone involved in the production that they kept pursuing it, and kept evolving everything to be cutting edge. The iPhone, YouTube, Facebook, none of that existed back when this picture was taken. I can't imagine the work that must have gone on behind the scenes over the years to keep this film going, and to keep evolving everything to be in line with the latest technologies as they emerged. Still in awe of the end product they produced, the vehicles in the film are insane, and it was great to see the Interceptor brought back in to be part of it.
