Mad Max
Fury Road 100 facts
1) The
invasion that halted filming was the invasion of Iraq.
2) They were
going to film it in 3D but decided against it even though they had built their
own 3D camera. The film was also going to be shot in Namibia and not the original
intended location of the Australian outback.
3) The film
was delayed 3 times, with the Iraq war, filming happy feet and it ran into the
Australian dessert.
4) Filming
wrapped up on the 17th December 2012
5) They had to
start re shooting dome scenes in November of 2013
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8) The filming
was mean to be in New South Wales but because of the strong rain they could not
shoot there.
9) An
estimated 7.5 million dollars was spent on 957 airings of the trailer, it
mainly targeted big sports events
10)
They were in Namibia for 10 months
11)
Miller tweaked the footage after filming to reduce the
quality so the audience felt like they had sand in their eyes. He did this by
increasing the grain and contrast and crunched the digital focus.
12)
Seale shot most of the film on Arri Alexa cameras
supplemented by far less costly cannon cameras for the crash shots.
13)
The film had been in development for 25 years with
various events setting it back time and time again.
14)
The film was shot with a storyboard instead of a
traditional script
15)
The film has been criticised for its feminist agenda.
16)
They used a water proof and dust proof camera because
of the filming conditions.
17)
Most of the visual effects are real at about 80
percent practical and the ret special effects
18)
The editors were given 450 hours’ worth of footage to
edit
19)
The movie released 2 years late as it was originally
planned for release in November
20)
It is directed and produced by George Miller
23)
Its running
time is 120 minutes
24)
They used
150 cars in filming
25)
In order to
flip the car the mad max crew used a steel plate under the car that allowed the
stunt driver to flip the car when he wanted giving him more control.
26)
The war rig
was actually driven through the dessert at 50mph
27)
Miller worked with an
artist to come up with 1,465 storyboards consisting of 3,454 panels, all of
which translated into a rough screenplay. Performers and the film
crew needed to consult with George constantly because the entire movie was
in his head.
28)
The raw footage, which is
nearly three whole weeks of non-stop visuals that had to be edited into the
final product.
29)
Miller recruited his wife
to edit the footage as she knew what he wanted.
30)
There were 1,700 workers on set to film the action,
including over 150 stunt performers, stunt drivers, camera crews and even a
team of snake wranglers to clear the path of deadly, desert serpents that
impeded production.
31)
The stunt crew alone worked more than
15,000 person-days during the shoot, which translates into well over 40 years
worth of effort, much of which was spent in high-risk scenarios that would
terrify the majority of humans.
32)
Miller estimates that 90% of the
stunts were live-action, several additional teams were also required to create
around 1,500 effects for the film.
33)
The movie was nearly entirely CGI but
Miller changed his mind and made it nearly entirely live action.
34)
One of the reasons that Mel Gibson didn’t
pick up his old role of Mad Max is because his problems with alcohol and his misogyny
and anti-Semitic views.
35)
The swinging pole stunts were all
real and some were done with Tom Hardy so he could actually be edited into the
rest of the pole scenes with accuracy.
36)
The stunt where furiosa pulled up mad
max into the war rig was actually filmed
and when tom hardy’s son expressed concern about the wire snapping miller
replied “Well, Louie, I suppose he’d go under the wheels.”
37)
The effects of 9/11 upset the cost of
the American dollar and the Australian dollar meaning that the scope of the
movie had to be scaled down and the vehicle shipping would take 3 months
longer.
38)
The Doof warrior playing the guitar
is a real prop that actually plays flam tunes
39)
The Dirt bike stunts were real and
they employed professionals to do the stunts.
40)
To get a scene that Miller wanted
they had to blow up an abandoned quarry
41)
The cast got used to desert life as
they had to live there for so long.
42)
The budget for the film was 150
million dollars
43)
The crashes were real and they used
stunt men crashing into green screens to blend the real crash with CGI explosions
44)
In most movies they only have a few
takes if that on the crash scenes however each crash on mad max was rigorously
planned and tested
45)
They shot all of the movie during the
day as it was far too cold at night.
46)
They used a phantom camera to film
the final sequence as it films over 300fps this gave miller the ability to
speed up and slow the footage without losing quality.
47)
The summer saw the film being shared
22.9 million times on torrent websites
48)
In the time it was being shared in
the peer network it was downloaded 85
million times
49)
Jackson incorporated a dust element
shoot for swirling action close to camera and streams of sand blowing off the
vehicles, this was to ensure the toxic storm looked somewhat grounded.
50)
Andrew Jackson was the visual effects
supervisor.
51)
Miller has already planned two more
films.
52)
Miller believed that there would not
be a sequel to the original film let alone a fourth.
53)
For the big crash at the end the used
the front part of a lorry and then they used CGI to put the back part of the
lorry on.
54)
It took 18 years to complete the
storyboard.
55)
They used Photoscan to build terrain
models.
56)
Everything in the film followed the
rules of physics so they could create it in real life.
57)
Miller also made Happy Feet 1 and
two.
58)
Tom Hardy was also in the dark knight
rises.
59)
Charlize theron was also in Hancock.
60)
The final film consisted of 2700
individual shots.
61)
They used an edge arm to help film
scenes.
62)
The edge arm cost $500,000.
63)
Miller wanted to use real dust for
the end, so they went one floor up on a balcony and put a whole bunch of dry
wall rocks and dust and crashed them down and filmed it at 240 fps for the
slow-mo bit at the end, because they did not want to use CG.
64)
The next movie was going to be called
furiosa however that has been scrapped and there is going to be another film
not called that.
65)
A deleted scene shows Miss Giddy's
fate; she is left with Angharad's body, and attacked by crows (the crows were
never added).
66)
George Miller was 70 years old when
he made the film.
67)
There was a $150 million budget.
68)
.In one of the scenes the War Rig has
a collision with a black Mack tractor unit. The same style of Mack tractor unit
was featured in Mad Max 2
69)
George Miller’s own film education
comes back to the earliest language of black and white, and silent films.
70)
This is a big, explosive, colorful,
loud movie.
71)
Miller has been working with some of
the same crew members for decades
72)
Miller was afraid the pole cats — the
guys mounted high above the cars on swinging poles — would not be a practical
on-set effect.
73)
To make sure that everyone would be
safe on this film, Miller & Co. went to the crew that did rigging work for
the Olympic opening ceremonies.
74)
Every Stunt Was Rigorously Planned
and Tested
75)
The previous Mad Max films, as
products of the ’70s and ’80s, were shot on film. But George Miller went
digital for Fury Road.
76)
There is a mad max fury road album featuring
all the songs from the film
77)
The film had good editing style, by
using "Eye Trace" and "Crosshair Framing" techniques during
shooting, they could keep the important visual information vital in one spot,
which I the Centre of the Frame.
78)
Sometimes the crew ended up driving
for miles just to get one shot right
79)
It was in the list for the top 5 most
pirated films of 2015
80)
Charlize Theron shaved her head to
star in Mad Max: Fury Road, and then had to wear a wig in A Million Ways to Die
in the West.
81)
On a set like Mad Max the safety of
the crew was priority
82)
The fourth film came 30 years after
the last
83)
An in-house positives and VFX crew
set up at production company Kennedy Miller Mitchell, dubbed Fury FX, was also
crucial in planning and realising hundreds of effects shots
84)
Miller has already planned two more
films.
85)
Weather delays stopped filming as it
became cold when they really wanted the hot desert conditions.
86)
Overall it generated $374 million at
the box office from all across the world.
87)
Mell Gibson originally signed up for
the film but then dropped out.
88)
This film could be four quadrant
89)
It is also an action adventure film
90)
The women are portrayed as strong
free willed people this is a countertype
91)
The film trailer was created for
people who appreciated film as it did not give the film away just showed the
technical and visual brilliance.
92)
Rumors flew that Charlie Theron and
Tom Hardy, who plays Max, did not get along at all, and that Theron got to the
point of not even speaking to Hardy on set.
93)
Liam Fountain auditioned for Max but
lost the part to Tom Hardy. Liam Fountain played Max in the 2011 short film Mad
Max Renegade, which takes place between the first two films.
94)
The guitar man couldn’t see for hours
because he had his eyes pasted over for makeup effects.
95)
The guitar weighs 60kg
96)
The film had its world premiere on 7
May 2015 at the TCL Chinese Theatre.
97)
In November 2006, Miller stated that
he intended to make Fury Road, and considered doing the film without Gibson:
"There's a real hope. The last thing I wanted to do is another Mad Max,
but this script came along, and I'm completely carried away with it."
98)
Principal photography began on 26
June 2012 in Namibia.
99)
Mad Max: Fury Road has a 97% approval
rating
100)
In 2011, Miller and McCarthy found
during the writing process for Fury Road that they had enough story material
for two additional scripts
