There’s very little new in Mad Max: Fury Road that hasn’t appeared in one or more of the three previous films. Many Mad Max fans feared that another film wouldn’t be released–or if it was, it’d be an embarrassed, wretched mess.Īs it happens they needn’t have worried Miller has done it again and in fine style. Long-delayed productions often spell trouble, signs of nervous studios demanding last-minute rewrites and balking at paying cost overruns. There were also rumors of on-set Fury Road tensions among the actors while on location in Namibia and ballooning budgets. (For a beautiful, terrible look at the ways in which a film can go wrong see the 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha, about Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated attempt to make a film called The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.) Ideas for a fourth film circulated but remained in what Hollywood calls “development hell” for at least a decade, stuck in a cinematic limbo where actors, studios, producers, and writers come and go over the years because all the right pieces are never in place at the same time and they have to move on to other projects. That film got mired in a muddled savior mythology involving Max and a band of lost children before returning in the third act to Miller’s bread and butter: exciting chases. I was a huge fan of The Road Warrior, and it was part of the reason I became interested in film criticism and filmmaking.Ī third film, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, followed in 1985 co-starring Tina Turner as the ruthless leader of a small city called Bartertown whose energy supply was challenged by a engineering genius dwarf and his huge bodyguard, together called Master Blaster. The movie put Miller, Gibson, and others on the map.
title), whose high-drama action and chase sequences were unlike anything previously put on film. Written and directed by George Miller, the film became a cult hit and led to the 1981 sequel The Road Warrior (U.S. The original Mad Max was a scrappy, zero-budget post-apocalyptic Australian road revenge film starring a then-unknown Mel Gibson.
There were lots of reasons to think that Mad Max: Fury Road would never be made, starting with the fact that the last film featuring the character came out 30 years ago.
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