"They're very close, there's chains, they're holding each other in very intimate positions, and the longer we were doing it the more we're kind of eyeing each other up." Stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen and actress Riley Keough also met on set and married soon after the film's premiere in 2015. "So the two of us were doing this-dare I say-very S&M-type fight, it's a love/hate mixture between these characters," Grant told Stuff. Dayna Porter and Dane Grant met on set as Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy's stunt doubles and fell in love while fighting each other. Speaking of spouses working together: Fury Road was the ignition switch for two sets of explosive marriage vows. Three FUry Road stunt performers-and one actor-found love on the set. "Who would do that?" Turns out her husband would. "It was kind of nuts to take all those people and all those vehicles to Namibia," editor Margaret Sixel (who is also Miller's wife) told The New York Times in 2020.
They waited a year to see if it would dry back up, and when it didn't, Miller hauled hundreds of people and vehicles to Namibia. Entertainment Inc.Īfter being shut down following 9/11 and another stall in 2003 with the Iraq War making a Namibian shoot impossible from the insurer's perspective, the production was all set to go in 2010 in the Australian desert until a once-in-a-century rain turned that desert into a slightly lusher green space than the film required. Riley Keough and Nicholas Hoult in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Production was scrapped two weeks before filming because of serious rain. Had production commenced, the Max of 2003 would have been Heath Ledger-and it may still have been if Miller and company had been able to shoot before Ledger's death in 2008. Plans to shoot in 2001 were scrapped following the events of 9/11 and the subsequent collapse of the American dollar against the Australian dollar. Director George Miller had been thinking of a feature-length chase scene for the fourth film since 1987, but the concept didn't fully coalesce until 1998, when he came up with the idea to make people-instead of oil-the object of the chase. Fury Road was supposed to be made in 2003 with Heath Ledger.įury Road was in development hell for decades. Max Rockatansky ( Tom Hardy this time around) reluctantly aids Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) as she tries to help a harem of "wives" (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, and Courtney Eaton) escape the violent dictator Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne).įrom the simplest of plots comes one of the most emotional action films ever made. The post-apocalyptic vision from director George Miller emerged from the ashes of the 1980s to continue the legacy of one iconic character and the wasteland he calls home. Mad Max: Fury Road will be remembered for decades for its beauty, intensity, and a story that came together without a written script.
Miller's jury, who will decide who gets its top prize, the Palme d'Or, will be announced later.In an age of decades-later sequels, one desert-baked car chase defied all logic by being utterly, fantastically good. The 69th Cannes festival will run from 11 to 22 May. Miller was one of a quartet of talented and commercially successful Australian film-makers to have emerged in the 1980s, led by Peter Weir ( Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Truman Show), Bruce Beresford ( Driving Miss Daisy) and Phillip Noyce ( Patriot Games).
Miller's heart-breaking drama Lorenzo's Oil, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte, was nominated for two Oscars in 1992.īut Happy Feet won the director the best animated feature award in 2006. It scooped nine prizes at last week's Critics' Choice Awards in Los Angeles, including best director. The fourth in the series, Mad Max: Fury Road, opened last year's Cannes festival and is in the running for no less than ten Oscars later this month. Mad Max broke the mould, they argued, "an ultra-violent futuristic film that brought the action film genre a touch of class with its masterly combination of road movie, Western and science fiction elements." "Throughout his career, George Miller has constantly experimented with a variety of genres, brilliantly reconciling mass audience expectations and the highest artistic standards," they said in a statement. But the organisers were at pains to point to his credentials as a cinematic pioneer.
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