Mad Max (1979) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ Did Goose and Jesse die? Yes, Max's boss mentions that "Goose bought it.". The Doctors talking about Jesse are convinced that she will die because her injuries are severe. The doctor instructs the nurse to re-assure Max that Jesse will be pull through. However, Max was right outside the room and overheard them talking about the extent of her injuries and that she won't survive. Are there two versions of the same film? Basically no, but there is one version with two audio differences; the first being the original Australian accented soundtrack and the second being the American dubbed soundtrack. Apart from dubbing the entire movie because Americans might find Australian accents difficult to understand, "Mad Max" in North America was completely the same cut. The original Australian dialogue soundtrack was released for the North American DVD premiere in 2000. Why does the Night Rider start crying while Max pursues him? The Night Rider probably experienced an acute onset of depression because he'd finally met an opponent who might catch him or matched him for driving ability.

Also, he probably felt he couldn't escape. It actually adds another element of humor to the scene. It is also likely that he was relying on his reckless nature as an advantage to outmaneuver the police. Along comes an officer who beats him in a game of chicken, and who is also driving a patrol car that can catch up to the one he is driving from a dead stop, and he knows that he isn't likely to get out of this alive. Max' wife mentions that he has been on the news several times, it is also possible that Nightrider recognized the notorious Max in his rearview mirror. Barring all else, Nightrider is shown to be quite psychologically unstable, screaming like a lunatic in nearly every shot in which he appears. Merely losing the game of chicken may have been enough to damage his fragile psyche to that degree. What year does this film take place in? "A FEW YEARS FROM NOW..." but a specific year is never mentioned and so the exact year is left ambiguous, with signs of society breaking down.

The film was influenced by fuel shortages in Australia in the mid-1970s due to the 1973 OPEC Oil Crisis, which led to several violent incidents throughout the country. Is this movie based on a book? No. It's an original story by director George Miller and his writing team. However, it's believed Miller did base it on riots that took place in 1970s Australia over fuel shortages and the muscle car culture that was popular back then. What are the differences between the old BBFC 18 Version and the R-Rated Version? The UK theatrical version was cut in one scene . This version was used for the old VHS by Warner from 1986. All other VHS and DVD releases are uncut. Approx. 50 seconds are missing in this version and a detailed comparison between both cuts can be found here. Timeline of events (original trilogy) | The Mad Max Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Timeline of events (original trilogy) 312pages on For the timeline attached to the rebooted franchise starring Tom Hardy, see Timeline of events (rebooted franchise) .

Contents [ show ] Introduction This timeline has been assembled from various interviews with the creators of the movies, official documents & other legitimate sources. Movies themselves provide very little backstory and concrete information as to what exactly triggered the events leading up to the apocalypse. The first movie gives almost no exposition except for the opening line "A few years from now". The sequel provides a vague description of events that led to the apocalypse, not detailed enough to determine when it happened and who was responsible for it. The third movie shows a bit more of the backstory but again, it is rudimentary. The entire Mad Max trilogy does not explicitly provide any dates except for two hidden ones in Mad Max and one partially obscured in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. The dates are as follows (in order of appearance): Mad Max: December 6th, 1984 written on the Highway 9 Sector 26 sign "est.

1983" seen on the MFP plate at the gates of Halls Of Justice (not visible in the movie, info retrieved from a movie prop) Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: September 10th 1999: the day Captain Walker left The Crack In The Earth along with other adults from the crashed Boeing 747 in search of civilization. In the script, this date was originally November 8th, 2005. George Miller revealed in an interview [1] from 1984 that the events of the first two movies took place some odd 15 years from then. This would place the first two movies in the mid to late 90's. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome takes place 15-18 years after which puts it in 2014 - 2018. Persian Gulf War The Persian Gulf War (Pre-Mad Max) "Law and order, like every other aspect of the Western society have been swept away - put to the torch one early morning when Iranian troops trying to export revolution, struck deep into the heart of Saudi Arabia".

[2] The war between Iran and Saudi Arabia left the Persian Gulf devastated in just two days. The oil fields were set ablaze and oil export halted almost immediately. Prices of oil doubled, then quadrupled and quadrupled again. North West and Trans-Persian pipelines have been destroyed shortly after. The West's seven biggest oil companies led by Exxon (The 7 Sisters Petroleum - as seen on the tanker in Mad Max 2) have immediately announced they will not fulfill their supply contracts. Impact on Australia The price of gold skyrocketed along with the inflation. In an attempt to save the economy and conserve fuel - martial laws have been announced all across the world. Italy and Spain have been taken over by the military. The Australian economy collapsed, companies filed bankruptcy one after another. Massive lay-offs caused the heavy industry to shut down. In Sydney & Melbourne panic turned into riots. People tried to withdraw savings from banks only to see the bank doors nailed shut. Gas stations were sucked dry by people fighting over last drops of gasoline. Ordinary citizens began to arm themselves. The Outback was slowly taken over by bike gangs. The remaining oil tankers were under constant attack. Vehicles that ran out of fuel were abandoned on the roads.

Intercity communication stopped. Mad Max Main Force Patrol (MFP) was formed as the last-ditch attempt to uphold the law on the roads. Max Rockatansky was one of the best drivers in the MFP. He went rogue after his friend and family were killed by a biker gang. Further decay (Pre-Mad Max 2) Coal & fuel powered generators ground to a halt causing the lights to go out. All electrical appliances stopped working. Suddenly food became a precious commodity. Looting became common by day, preying on the weak common by night. It had become obvious that the weak would perish and the strong would survive. As a result, lone scavengers began to form gangs that roamed the Wasteland in their home-made dune buggies and bikes. [3] People were fleeing the cities. Papagallo - a former oil company employee - took maps leading to the Compound and headed there along with the others. [4] Max wandered out into the Wastelands. Lord Humungus - a former military member whose face had been disfigured in an accident [5] formed a gang along with Wez - a Vietnam vet.

His gang bolstered their forces through the recruitment of lone scavengers, some of which with a military background. At this point, the MFP ceased to exist and the former officers joined gangs. MFP vehicles were scavenged and modified by the gangs. Mad Max 2 Three years after the events in Mad Max the society was in complete decay, the economy was nonexistent, people had fled out into the Wastelands for safety only to find that Marauders were roaming there for fuel and resources. Nuclear apocalypse (Post-Mad Max2) Apocalypse After the economy collapsed and the fabric of society disintegrated all across the world, the remaining governments were still trying to secure the last oil resources. This had led to a global nuclear exchange. It is unknown who struck first, but everyone had suffered. Nuclear winter followed shortly after. The pilot Captain Walker tried to take people out to safety from Sydney onboard of a Boeing 747 . The plane had crashed due to turbulence and the remaining survivors formed a tribe. The climate changed once again, it became dry and hot, deserts started to form. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 15 years after the events of Mad Max 2, the society as we know it no longer exists.

The only remaining shreds of civilization either live off of the old world or decide to start over again. Water is scarce & radioactive. The landscape had been turned into a desert. Oil is no longer. References Mad Max: Fury Road | The Mad Max Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Mad Max: Fury Road R (U.S.), 15 (U.K), MA15+ (AUS) Release Date 25th October 2016 (U.S.) (Black And Chrome Edition) Runtime Mad Max: The Wasteland Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth installment in the action movie Mad Max franchise. The film is directed by George Miller , and stars Tom Hardy in the pivotal role of Max Rockatansky , with Charlize Theron starring as Imperator Furiosa . Director George Miller initially described the film: "Mad Max is caught up with a group of people fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by the Imperator Furiosa . This movie is an account of the road war which follows. It is based on the Word Burgers of the History Men and eyewitness accounts of those who survived." [1] Contents Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Reader's discretion advised.

Original storyboard opening shot. 50 years after the apocalypse [2] , Australia is a desert wasteland and civilization has collapsed. Max ( Tom Hardy ), a former MFP officer, is captured by the War Boys , the army of a tyrannical cult leader named Immortan Joe ( Hugh Keays-Byrne ). Designated as a universal blood donor, Max is imprisoned and used as a living blood bag for a sickly War Boy called Nux ( Nicholas Hoult ). Meanwhile, Imperator Furiosa ( Charlize Theron ) drives her heavily-armored War Rig to collect gasoline in nearby Gas Town . However, Furiosa begins driving off route, alerting Joe who realizes that his Five Wives ( Rosie Huntington-Whiteley , Riley Keough , Zoë Kravitz , Abbey Lee Kershaw , and Courtney Eaton ) — beautiful and healthy women specially selected for breeding — are gone. Joe leads his entire War Boy army in pursuit of Furiosa, calling on the aid of his allies in Gas Town and the Bullet farm . Nux joins the army with Max strapped to the hood of his car, to continue supplying blood. A battle ensues between the Rig and Joe's forces.

Furiosa drives into an approaching sand storm to evade her pursuers. Nux, driven by Joe's indoctrinated belief that dying in battle will take him to Valhalla, attempts to destroy the Rig by making his car explode upon impact on the massive truck. Max escapes and restrains Nux, but the car is destroyed by the Rig. Waking up after the storm, Max sees Furiosa nearby repairing her Rig, accompanied by the Wives who are cleaning themselves with water and removing fanged metal chastity belts from their bodies. Max engages in a fight with the women and steals the Rig, but its kill-switch disables the truck. Max reluctantly agrees to let Furiosa and the Wives accompany him, while Nux returns to Joe. Furiosa drives through Rock Riders territory into a narrow canyon, having previously agreed to exchange gasoline for safe passage. However, Joe's forces are close behind, and Furiosa flees while the Bikers detonate the canyon walls to block Joe's path. Max and Furiosa fend off the pursuing Bikers, but Joe's vehicle evades the blockade and assaults the Rig. Nux boards the Rig while Joe attempts to shoot Furiosa.

Angharad — Joe's heavily pregnant wife — shields Furiosa, but falls from the Rig and is run over by Joe's car, killing her and his child and leaving the remaining Wives devastated by her death. Furiosa explains to Max that they are escaping to the " Green Place of Many Mothers ", a location she remembers from her youth. Capable finds Nux, distraught that he contributed to the death of Joe's wife; touched by his remorse, she consoles him. At night, the heavy Rig gets caught in deep mud. Furiosa and Max slow Joe's forces with explosives, but Joe's ally, the Bullet Farmer , pursues the Rig. Nux helps free the Rig while Furiosa shoots and blinds the Bullet Farmer. He retaliates with machine gun fire and explosives. Max wanders into the dark to confront the Bullet Farmer, killing him and safely returning to the Rig with guns and ammunition. As dawn breaks, the Rig travels through swampland and desert, and the group eventually encounters a naked woman. Max identifies it as a trap, but Furiosa leaves the Rig and states her former clan affiliation, revealing that she is of the Vuvalini .

The woman, Valkyrie ( Megan Gale ), summons a group of desert bikers who realize that Furiosa is a member of their all-female clan; kidnapped with her mother by Immortan Joe when she was a child. Furiosa is distraught to learn that the swamp land they passed was in fact the Green Place, which is now uninhabitable. The group agree to ride their motorbikes across the immense salt flats in the hope of finding somewhere to live. Max chooses to stay behind, but after seeing visions of Glory the Child , he convinces them to return to the Citadel , which has ample water and greenery that Joe keeps for himself, and trap Joe and his army in the Biker Gang's canyon. The group begins the journey back to the Citadel, eventually encountering Joe and his remaining forces. A battle is waged by the two sides, and Furiosa is gravely wounded in the process. Joe positions his car in front of the Rig in an attempt to slow it down, while Max fights Joe's eldest son, Rictus Erectus ( Nathan Jones ).

Toast the Knowing is captured and put on Joe's car, but she is able to distract him, allowing Furiosa to hook Joe's mask to his car's rotating wheels, tearing his lower jaw off and instantly killing him. Nux sacrifices himself by destroying the Rig, blocking the canyon, killing Rictus, and allowing Max, Furiosa, and the Wives to escape in Joe's vehicle. Max donates his blood to Furiosa with the help of the Dag , to help her survive her fatal injuries. At the Citadel, the citizens are overjoyed at the sight of Joe's mangled corpse, signifying the end of his despotic rule over the land. At the citizens' joyful urging, Furiosa and the Wives are raised up on a lift by the child War Boys, but Max stays behind. He and Furiosa share a glance of acknowledgment before Max disappears into the crowd. Spoilers end here. Whiley Toll Development Initially conceived shortly after Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome , George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road or Mad Max 4 failed to launch on multiple occasions.

The initial idea The idea for the next installment of Max's adventures came to Miller in 1987[citation needed] when he was crossing the street: “ "Could we make a film which is almost a continuous chase and how much can the audience apprehend from that story in terms of character, relationships, the world, the backstory and so on? And that the McGuffin, the thing that everyone's in conflict over should be human because to some extent or another we're all commodities in the world." ” – George Miller on the very initial idea he had for Fury Road Miller pushed that idea out of his mind for 9 years. In 1996 the same idea came to Miller on a long plane trip across the Pacific and that is when he dreamed the storyline while in a 'hypnagogic' state. He presented his idea to his colleges and it was decided that the next installment of Mad Max is in order. Mad Max TV series Shortly after the release of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, George Miller was contemplating creation of Mad Max TV series [3] The role of Max was to be reprised by an Australian actor Jon Blake.

Unfortunately, Blake was involved in a car accident in 1986 that left him permanently disabled [4] . Plans for a Mad Max TV series fell through. On November 6th 1995, Daily Variety printed an article revealing a "Mad Max: The Road Warrior,'' a weekly television series based on the ``Mad Max'' movies is set to blast onto TV screens in the fall of 1996" [5] . No further details have been revealed other than the show would not include human violence but rather vehicular combat. The idea for a TV show was brewing in the minds of both Miller and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. It is unknown how far the negotiations had gone, but at the time that was the fate of the new Mad Max installment. Brendan McCarthy In 1996, Miller started to assemble his team of screenwriters and design artists, among them: Brendan McCarthy - a big fan of the Mad Max franchise and a designer of a TV series called 'ReBoot'. Brendan had sent George Miller a VHS of an episode of 'ReBoot' entitled 'Bad Bob' which was directly inspired by 'Mad Max', with a note 'Whatever happened to Max?'.

Two weeks later he received a phone call from George Miller's long time producer friend - Doug Mitchell, who was impressed by that episode and being sold on the idea that computer graphics are the next best thing decided to meet Brendan McCarthy in Los Angeles to discuss a possible Mad Max TV series. Mitchell's pitch was that the series was going to be a kind of 'Xena: Warrior Princess' version of Mad Max which caught McCarthy off guard and he proposed his own ideas, but for a Mad Max movie, which Mitchell found interesting and offered McCarthy a job on the movie instead. McCarthy also caught Miller's attention after sending him (along with many other letters about Mad Max) about three pages of drawings with designs and things that ultimately found its place in the vast world part of which was seen in Fury Road. [6] [7] Early on George Miller was working with a traditional writer (repotedly it was Eric Blakeney [8] ) who was more senior and appeared to look only at the surface of the material whereas McCarthy dug deeper into the material. The writer was treating the character of Max superficially, turning him into a generic action hero with predictable lines. One day a version of the script was presented to Miller and it was really bad.

Miller explained to the writer that this script is not up to par and said that McCarthy agrees with him to which the unnamed writer said "What would he know, he's just a f***ing cartoonist" [9] . The writer was swiftly removed from the writing process and McCarthy moved to Sydney to storyboard the movie from 1997 to 1999 becoming a co-screen writer. As it turned out, McCarthy found that Miller had already had a basic outline for the movie, in a very crude form. That basic outline included many Wives, more than five and Max expressing love for Furiosa at the very end. [10] During the writing process, the most important idea was expressed through a quote "Engage to heal" meaning - it was supposed to be Max's journey of regaining humanity through helping others. The ending of the movie was completely different at first, with the escaping party going further into the Wasteland. Along with George Miller they approached the movie like animation starting off with a rough draft and storyboarded it. The first rough draft was entirely story-boarded and designed by McCarthy and it took form of a mixture of a script, manifesto and design journal.

Michael Biehn as Max, Mel Gibson's involvement After plans of a Mad Max TV show were abandoned in favor of a full feature movie, initial rumors about casting started to circulate. In 1997 Mel Gibson was offered 'obscene' amounts of money to play Max again, but his interest in reprising the role diminished after signing on to star in Lethal Weapon 4. Michael Biehn was rumored to have been approached for the role as well. [11] Tony Wright, Mark Sexton, Peter Pound and Nico Lathouris Early in 1997, Peter Pound and Mark Sexton were hired on to do storyboards and concept art. The movie was story-boarded until the 2nd act when McCarthy had to leave to do another project, leaving the entire 3rd act in the hands of George Miller and Mark Sexton who became the movie's chief storyboard artist. [12] The "Mad Max Bible" early design/script/manifesto document created by Brendan McCarthy and George Miller was scanned and turned into a story reel and put into sequence with motion and duration of time with help of Sexton and Pound.

Peter Pound contributed over 950 storyboards and was dubbed the movie's Principal Vehicle Designer [13] . Nico Lathouris was initially hired as a script and story analyst. [14] In 1999, Tony Wright was invited to Australia to start developing storyboards for the 4th part of Mad Max. Unfortunately due to personal issues he had to abandon the project [15] . Gradually the whole writing and design team had built the movie through still pictures with a little bit of panning, just like an animatic. 1st announcement and casting In November 2001 it was announced that the script had been finished and casting had begun. Rumors again pointed at Michael Beihn, Brendan Fern, Heath Ledger and Mel Gibson as possible main actor candidates. [16] In early 2002, Nico Lathouris had received the full 3500 storyboard version of the movie along with a script. It took 10 months for Nico to deconstruct the story to understand it and start working on it with George Miller. He broke down the story into 22 sections.

Lathouris connected the number 22 with the 22 Paths of The Tree Of Life from Kabbalah which also co-related with 22 cards of the Tarot. [17] He used that model to understand the journey of Max. In December 2002 it was confirmed by Miller that the script was almost finished and filming would start early in 2003. Mel Gibson was back to play the role despite his appearance being costly, but "Worth every cent". Gibson himself even suggested Robert Downey Jr. for the main role. [18] In January 2003 stunt crew auditions were underway. In February 2003 it was announced that the filming would begin on June 1st in Namibia and the film studio was scheduling the movie to be released on 24th of July 2004 [19] . Australian actress Georgie Shew was in talks about her role in Mad Max: Fury Road as of May 2003.

1st delay, Iraq War On February 27th 2003 Variety [20] reported on the postponing of Mad Max Fury Road due to the Iraq War just 11 weeks before filming [21] . Due to the US dollar collapse, the production lost 25% of its budget. The movie was officially stalled and entered hiatus. Hiatus From mid 2004 to October 24th 2009, Mad Max: Fury Road had been put on hold, Miller focusing on other movies, mainly Happy Feet and Happy Feet 2. The prospect of filming Fury Road in 2005 was still on the table with or without Mel Gibson on board [22] . In 2006, the idea of casting Mel Gibson was abandoned and searching for a new actor was underway. As a result, the movie was no longer a story about an old warrior [23] , instead George Miller was set on casting Heath Ledger for the role citing him as having the same kind of wild energy that Gibson had and later Tom Hardy would have.

[24] George Miller confirmed continued interest from 2006 to 2008 with more details about the planned production surfacing. In December 2008 Miller's own Dr. D digital imagery studios were listing Mad Max: Fury Road as their upcoming project. Anime In March 2009, MTV reported a 3D Anime Mad Max movie was planned. [25] At the time it was revealed that the script was going to be partially based on Mad Max: Fury Road, but without Mel Gibson voicing Max and the anime itself was going to be geared more towards the Western sensibilities and audiences.. Much later, in 2015 George Miller revealed that the anime was going to be about Furiosa's story and the decision to make that feature came from extensive backstories written for Fury Road by Miller and his co-writers: Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris during Fury Road's production hiatus. Two additional stories about Max were mentioned to have been written during that time. Furiosa's 3D anime was still considered until the 2nd delay due to heavy rains in Australia - the production crew immediately had to shift focus to film the movie and the concept of Mad Max anime was abandoned.

[26] Concept drawings and artwork made by Mahiro Maeda for the anime resurfaced in a Japanese television program in June 2015. [27] [28] [29] Video Game In very early stages of Fury Road's writing process, Mark Sexton created conceptual designs of the Mad Max computer game. That game was going to be developed by George Miller's own studio. [30] The plans for the game were set aside until the movie re-emerged from its hiatus. In September 2008 - shortly before announcing plans for Mad Max 3D anime - George Miller partnered with "God Of War II" designer - Cory Barlog to develop a Mad Max game tie-in for the upcoming animated feature [31] . In 2010, Barlog starts working for Avalanche Studios and is rumored to have brought in his Mad Max project. Due to the 2nd delay and filming relocation, the original game project is put on hold and Barlog leaves Avalanche Studios in 2012.

In 2013 the game development resumes for but Barlog reported that the final game is not what he was working on with George Miller as the game is not a tie-in to the franchise but it took on its own direction ever since. [32] A remnant of the original video game and movie tie-in was the lack of the rear spoiler on Max's Interceptor in Fury Road - the rear spoiler was supposed to be a bonus item found in the game. [33] 2nd announcement and filming location On October 24th 2009, Mad Max: Fury Road was officially announced at a press conference for the second time. [34] [35] [36] [37] The pre-production commenced and the 30-week shoot was scheduled to begin in August 2010. The location of filming was now Broken Hill and Sydney. The production would be largely financed by the New South Wales government [38] who have provided the Redfem carriage works free of charge for the film's production along with other government financial incentives. [39] The budget of the film was outstanding due to a huge amount of stunts that haven't been done before.

[40] At the time of the announcement no casting choices had been revealed, but Charlize Theron's and Tom Hardy's involvement was confirmed shortly after. [41] Mel Gibson's any involvement was denied by himself. Vehicles were being built and tested in Broken Hill shortly after. 2nd delay, Broken Hill location problems In November 2011 the production in Australia was forced to stall the production once again due to heavy rains in Broken Hill which have turned the landscape from desert-like into a lush collection of wildflowers, obviously inappropriate for the "post-apocalyptic wasteland" [42] . George Miller decided to wait a little for the green landscape to go back to normal, but seeing as that would not happen, the production crew started contemplating other locations such as China and Chile because they had the same coast as the west coast of Africa [43] . Filming in Namibia Ultimately the production was moved to Namibia in 2012 because the existing infrastructure in the coast area would make filming easier. It was announced that the film would begin shooting in 2012.

The production encountered a few problems, namely from The Namibian Coast Conservation and Management group that accused the producers of damaging parts of the Namib Desert and endangering a number of plant and animal species. Another issue came up in the middle of shooting when Warner Brothers decided to remove The Citadel sequences and announced the release sometime in 2013. Those sequences were eventually put back in and after finishing filming in Namibia in on December 17th 2012, George Miller proceeded with filming The Citadel sequences in Sydney in November 2013 as planned. The shooting took 138 days. After finishing the shoot, post-production began and the final release date was announced: May 15, 2015 for the USA, & May, 14 for Australia. [44] [45] Comic books Miller had always envisioned the film to be one giant road war, a unique screen spectacle that had not been attempted before. That being said, he still constructed in-depth back stories for all the major characters.

The backstories of Nux , Immortan Joe , Max Rockatansky and Imperator Furiosa became the focus of a comic book series collected into a trade paperback release in August 2015. [46] Production video Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior Filming Locations Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior Filming Locations A guide to the filming locations used in Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior. Mad Max 2 was filmed in New South Wales (Australia), around the areas of Broken Hill and Silverton. The first stop for any Mad Max tourist should of course be the Silverton Hotel, pictured above. There is a wealth of history surrounding the hotel, and inside you will find pictures from Mad Max 2, and many of the other productions that have been done out there over the years. The road out past Silverton will also take you to the Mundi Mundi plain, where much of the opening of the film was shot. Note that several Broken Hill residents managed to keep various items from the film, and if you ask around you should be able to find them and look at these things for yourself.

All that they ask is that if you take a look, please leave things as you find them, for everyone else to see after you. For those unable to make it to Broken Hill - a way to visit the locations interactively is through . Visit the web site and download the package, then come back here and grab the file of Mad Max 2 locations . Just open it up by double clicking. Any locations listed as (approx) aren't pinpointed precisely yet, and many are missing, so feel free to send me your updates . Mad Max 2 / Road Warrior Locations Opening Sequence The road out past Silverton, towards Mundi Mundi plain, was used in many shots, primarily the opening chase, and the final truck wreck. The truck is initially parked at the Mundi Mundi lookout (note that the sign was a film prop, and is not there). The reverse side of the hill is used in the opening chase, where Max dodges the wrecks, while the Landau just crashes through them. Down from the Mundi Mundi lookout is a tight corner, which is where the truck is crashed off the road in the final scene.

Looking up the hill towards Mundi Mundi lookout Around the corner and onto the straight, and this road is again used in the opening chase. Note in the opening chase that you can see the cars fly past some old electrical poles, about when the Landau is knocking posts out of the ground. The poles are still there, as pictured below. Mundi Mundi Road, as used in the opening chase, looking towards the corner The Gyro Captain The location of the parked Gyro Copter is Stephen's Creek. If you take Kaolin street out of town (I hope that's the one!) and keep driving for half an hour or so, you should reach the dry creek bed where this scene was film. It would be advisable to take a 4 wheel drive, to avoid becoming bogged in the sandy creek bed. The Compound The compound was set out at "The Pinnacles", a series of three hills, about 20km out of Broken Hill. The Pinnacles are fairly prominent as you drive in towards Broken Hill, they are the only hills for miles around. The compound was at the base of the middle pinnacle, which is the one closest to the road.

Max also used the middle pinnacle as his vantage point to overlook the compound. After its explosive destruction seen in the film , the compound site was bulldozed flat, but from atop The Pinnacles you can still see the scars where it once was. The road to the pinnacles was used in the rig delivery, the road up towards the compound was actually created for the film, and is still there today. Max Escapes In The Interceptor The "rollover" scene, when Max gets taken out by Wez, was on the road to Menindee lakes, not that far out of town, (at closest approx. 15 k's) a drop to another plain. It's apparently easy to find, you're coming down a noticeably large hill, then it's flat until the rivers and lakes. On the right hand side of the road (going out of town) there is a cliff face. After the filming you could still see the tyre tracks, etc leading off the edge. (Thanks to Josh Nixon for this one) The Final Chase The majority of the final chase was filmed on the road from Broken Hill to Menindee.

Follow the road out past the section used for the cannonball stunt, and head out about a further 15km. You'll hit a long straight stretch of road (about 4km long), which was reused back and forth for much of the chase.. The Chase Conclusion The end of the final chase was mostly shot out at Mundi Mundi, on the road out past Silverton. The Gyro Captain throws the molotov cocktail at Humungus about 500 metres after the corner where the truck crashes (see below). They are heading north towards the Umberimberka reservoir. When Humungus is on fire, he is about 2km out from the truck crash corner, heading south. The Truck Crash The final truck roll over scene was just down from the Mundi Mundi lookout, as mentioned above (same locations as for the opening chase). The impact itself occurs just as the hill starts to drop down from the Mundi Mundi lookout. In the truck crash picture shown above, the lookout is just over the crest of the hill, behind the F100.

After destroying Humungus' truck, the truck careers down the hill, and leaves the road and hits the dirt as it rounds the corner, shown below. See the separate page for more detailed information on the truck stunts themselves . Given that most of Mad Max 2 was shot on open roads, the above general info is probably just about all that there is! However, if anyone can think of anything else, please just contact me . I will try to identify and photograph a few of the other identifiable locations next time I manage to make it out there. Broken Hill Tours As far as I can determine, there are no tour companies that do a specific "Mad Max" tour. The majority of people venture to Broken Hill to see the area in general, and incorporate more sight seeing than just Mad Max locations. Some tours will of course take you past some locations and point them out, however you are probably best to make your own way there if Mad Max is all you want to see. If you want just a general tour of Broken Hill, I have discovered a couple of companies online, perhaps email them for more info (I have not dealt with any of these companies directly myself): Firstly, there is Outback Tours, .

They mention the fact that Mad Max was filmed around Broken Hill on their page, although I don't know if they tour to any of the locations specifically. Secondly, there is Goanna Safari, . It seems that their tours are aimed directly at people who wish to see the bush, wildlife, etc, and it is highly unlikely that they would have tours aimed specifically at Mad Max locations. They do have tours that go through the Broken Hill area though, if you just wanted to see that area in general. Finally, a couple of people have pointed out to me that although some tour operators do offer tours of film locations in the Broken Hill area, the information on these tours may not be 100% accurate. If you make the effort to go to Broken Hill then I would suggest taking the above list of locations, so that if you do go on a tour that doesn't take you everywhere, at least you can hire a car or something and find the rest for yourself. Answers to All Your Questions About the Mad Max Universe | WIRED Answers to All Your Questions About the Mad Max Universe subscribe 6 months for $5 - plus a FREE Portable Phone Charger.

On Twitter 11 hours A comedy about the apocalypse—penned by @neilhimself —is slated for 2018. So there's that to look forward to at least bit.ly/2jcWNvp Slide: 1 / of 3. Caption: WARNER BROS. Slide: 2 / of 3. Caption: Warner Bros. Slide: 3 / of 3. Caption: Warner Bros. Author: Jordan Crucchiola. Jordan Crucchiola Culture Date of Publication: 05.12.15. Time of Publication: 12:45 pm. 12:45 pm Answers to All Your Questions About the Mad Max Universe WARNER BROS. Most of the time when franchises “reboot” it feels like a studio gave up on trying and grabbed the closest idea that was available to option. People know this. They’ll probably pay to see it since it feels familiar. Here’s $100 million! But with Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller has awakened a slumbering action giant to give us everything we didn’t know we needed from a summer blockbuster in 2015.

That’s right: The creator and writer/director of all three Max flicks is back to shepherd his hero into the new millennium. But the last time we saw Max Rockatansky, it was 1985. Back then, Mel Gibson was young, beautiful and not at all a pariah. He was facing down a villain in the form of Tina Turner and fighting for his life in the Thunderdome. His story felt like it had reached its logical conclusion. A forever broken-hearted, noble man wandering in the desert was left to wander some more. But George Miller, Max’s creator, never stopped thinking about him, and now has a whole new set of adventures for this solitary warrior, the first of which (or rather, the fourth) is this weekend’s Fury Road. That means that if you haven’t seen the original trio of movies—or maybe you just haven’t seen them in three decades—you have some catching up to do. We’re here for you. Cue up Verdi’s “Requiem, Dies irae” and get ready for a crash course in Max. Here are all the answers you’ll need before blazing down Fury Road. Who Is Max Rockatansky?

The Max we’ll see in Fury Road really appeared for the first time in The Road Warrior, Miller’s second installment in the Mad chronicles. But before the world turned to dust and he became a “burned out shell of a man,” Max was a father, a husband, and the most valuable member of the Main Force Patrol—a kind of Highway Patrol existing to enforce what remains of the law in a decaying society. In the first Mad Max movie, Rockatansky loses his partner, Jim “Goose” Rains, then his wife, Jessie, and his infant son, called only Sprog, thanks to a tangle with a nasty motorcycle gang. It’s from these events that the Max we know today is brought forth, a man with nothing and no one, but armed with a preternatural ability to survive. Max is no hero, but somehow he always ends up doing hero’s work: defending the defenseless. It’s something he proved in Road Warrior and again in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Considering the catalyst for Fury Road’s epic chase is the rescuing of a group of sex slaves from Immortan Joe’s psychotic clutches, Max is once again thrust into the role of reluctant savior in this latest chapter.

As much as he projects the absence of a conscience to the cold, cruel world around him—and as much as he fears he has truly lost his soul—Max always comes through with a getaway car when the fires are burning hot and the weak need saving. Just don’t expect him to make a big deal of it. What Caused Earth to Become a Wasteland? The voiceovers in the trailers for Fury Road actually give a more explicit description of what happened to Earth than any of the previous Max movies ever did. Max says his world is “fire and blood” and a newscaster’s voice mentions “the water wars.” In the original Mad Max, the setting doesn’t look like our elaborate dystopias of today with everyone wearing tattered yet fashionable knits and dictators living in luxury amidst the general squalor. It’s mostly like the Wild West reborn in Australia. Lawmen play judge, jury, and executioner, and small-town folk keep to themselves, trying to get by while defending against invading gangs (just replace men on horseback with men on motor bikes). Infrastructure is crumbling and some sort of energy crisis has forced everyone into a competition for resources, hence all the raiding parties.

But people still wear proper clothes and can go home and wash their hands, so it hasn’t all gone to hell just yet. By Road Warrior, five years after the events of the first movie, everything has gotten considerably worse. Towns have disappeared and society consists of isolated collectives scrounging for fuel and water. Humanity has divided into three types of people: marauders, people living in small groups just trying to get by, and solo wanderers like Max. There are no more bars or ice cream shops like in Mad Max, and the clothing, cars, and homes all look like they’ve been salvaged from some sort of wreckage. If humanity is to carry on, we seem to have lost all hope of looking like the first world ever again. Then came Beyond Thunderdome. At this point, we are 20 years removed from the events of the first movie and people have organized in the wasteland enough to form Barter Town, a walled-off city of sorts where people can trade and indulge in countless forms of vice.

(The Atoll commerce hub in Waterworld probably took its cues from Barter Town.) Even though it’s populated by rapists, thieves, and pillagers, the Town is the closest thing we’ve seen to civilization since the world was sent on a path to hell decades before. And in a trilogy set mostly in rural Australia, we finally get to see what remains of the cities at the end of Beyond Thunderdome. It’s not good. Everything looks like a volcano erupted and blew it apart, leaving behind nothing but an ash-covered husk. We can only assume that by Fury Road things have gotten even worse. So Where Has George Miller Been the Last 30 Years? If you haven’t been keeping up on the MaxVerse, Miller has strung together an eclectic career since Thunderdome in 1985, directing The Witches of Eastwick, Babe: Pig in the City, and both Happy Feet movies. Not what you’d expect, right? But Miller also has been mulling over Max since he finished up with Gibson all those years ago. But it had to be right if he was going to resurrect his landmark franchise, and it took more than 30 years for all the creative and financial pieces to fall into place.

The massive upside to this is that Miller already has two more Max movies living inside his head. So if Fury Road is successful enough to warrant sequels, the saga could go on for at least two more movies. (The prospect is so exciting we almost don’t want to say it out loud for fear of jinxing the whole thing, but here we are.) Is Mel Gibson in This Movie at All? No. The original plan did include Gibson climbing back into the Interceptor, but the original plan also had Fury Road coming out a decade ago. When Miller first tried to get his movie off the ground around 2000, Gibson was still his guy, his road warrior, if you will. But after 9/11, the economy vaporized. The budget ballooned and production was forced to a halt. By the time Miller was able to get the wheels turning again, Gibson had fallen out of the public’s favor for allegedly saying anti-Semitic/racist/sexist things , and as Miller told the Huffington Post at South by Southwest, “it also definitely got to the stage where it wasn’t like Unforgiven, where it plays with an older guy. It was definitely the younger guy, the same guy.” Warner Bros.

And so we get Tom Hardy as our new Viking of the Outback. And thank God. Never mind the fact that Gibson is a non-starter these days, Hardy has that cool, quiet, man-with-a-code aura that made Max such a charismatic, enduring figure all those decades ago. Max has always been a man of few words, and last year Hardy made a movie that took place entirely in the driver’s seat of an SUV and turned in one of the most compelling performances of 2014. Give this guy a chair in front of a camera and he’ll bleed for you, so imagine the presence he’ll command with more than $100 million in resources backing him up. Warner Bros. What’s with the Crazy Names? If you’ve been reading about Fury Road you’ve seen some pretty weird character names, like Imperator Furiosa, Immortan Joe (above), Toast the Knowing, The People Eater, and Rictus Erectus, to name only a few.

Miller created this world in his head from scratch, and distinctive character names are a signature of the franchise, with highlights like Mudguts, Clunk, and Toecutter showing up in Mad Max; The Humumgus, Wez and Curmudgeon appearing in Road Warrior; and Aunty Entity (the incomparable Tina Turner), Pig Killer, Dr. Dealgood, and Scrooloose in Beyond Thunderdome. It’s just how the world works. Are These Movies Just a Bunch of CGI? Nope. Miller has a rich history of real people doing real stunts throughout his Mad Max movies. He kept with tradition for Fury Road, executing the vast majority what you’ll see in-camera—no CGI necessary. We’ve got a big old story here that will tell you all about it. Where are all the black people in Mad Max: Fury Road? Well… | Scott Woods Makes Lists Scott Woods Makes Lists Everything but laundry and groceries.

Menu SWoods / May 30, 2015 Analysis of the numerous roles of women in Mad Max: Fury Road is making some people ask the question, “Where are all the black people in the future?” It’s not a bad question, but it’s a question that, if you’re going to bother interrogating an action film set in a post-apocalyptic future with any earnestness, has some data we should apply to it first. There is the obvious answer to the question, the second most obvious answer, and a third, purely scientific answer. The first and most obvious answer is that director George Miller has it in for people of color, meaning he doesn’t want them in his film, meaning he’s racist. I’m not inclined to go with an answer to that question that disparages the man who gave us Tina Turner as “Aunty Entity” thirty years ago, which, honestly? Should negate this question entirely. Oh wait: there’s another one behind her.

But, still allowing for the question despite that fact, here’s another fact that negates the absolutist tone of the question: there are at least two people of color in MMFR of note (meaning with lines or action): “Toast the Knowing” (Zoe Kravitz) and “Cheedo the Fragile” (Courtney Eaton, who is just not-white enough that you can next find her playing an Egyptian slave coming soon ). Also on the table is “The Valkyrie”, portrayed by an actress (Megan Gale) of some percentage of Maori lineage, but people far more Australian than I have argued against citing her in the same breath because her inclusion is more ethnically cursory than promoted (meaning that’s information you have to look up to know, not offered by characterization). So if you’re one of those people who likes to question the diversity of things they haven’t interacted with solely based on random headlines, the short answer is “they’re in Acts 2 and 3”. But let’s say you’re not looking for a political fight. Let’s say you’re actually wondering how the Mad Max universe operates in terms of race, what it’s continuity might consist of.

That leaves us with the equally theoretical – and slightly more fun – exercise of science. So let’s start with some facts: All of the Mad Max films take place in Australia. That’s not just where they shot the films because Hollywood is expensive: these are actually Australian stories. As of 2014 Australia had 23.5 million people in it. That’s 3 million LESS than Texas in the same year. So we’re already working with a country that doesn’t have a lot of people in it of ANY color. Australia literally has more kangaroos than people . How many of them (Australians, not kangaroos) aren’t white is key here. The Australian census didn’t count most (or any) POCs until the 1960s, and the numbers have fluctuated as the legal definition of terms like “native”, “aboriginal” and “white” have changed over the years. If you’re a black or Native American ( or both, recently ) you’re already kind of familiar with this kind of fuzzy legalese. At any rate, the percentage of black POCs in Australia is likely around 2.5 – 3 percent.

(EDIT: I should note here that while Australia has a good number of immmigrants who claim a variety of ethnicities and points of origin, they overwhelmingly come from the UK and Asia, not countries where black people are prominent. My goal here is to figure out where the black people are in the future, so I’ll be focusing on numbers that draw that information out.) Know what the percentage of Native Americans are in Texas? In 2013 it was 1 percent. So Americans, here’s an exercise: triple the number of Native Americans you saw today in your head (for most of you that number will be zero) and realize that’s how many black people of color Australia has. For fun, let’s put a whole number to that percentage. 3 percent of 23.5 million Australians is 705,000 black Australians of color. That’s it. Now let’s talk about where they live, because this will be on the test later when we start blowing things up. The urbanization rate is how many people live in cities versus rural or remote areas. The percentages of Australian blacks breaks down thus: almost one-third – 31 percent – of them live in major cities.

Another 45 percent live in regional areas. 24 percent live in remote areas. For the record, that’s 218,550 in cities, 317,250 in regional areas around cities, and 169,200 in remote areas. If you packed MetLife Stadium for a New York Giants game three times you’d have more people than Australia has blacks living in all of its major cities combined. It’s the Giants, so good luck with that, but that’s the math. Now apply dystopian dysfunction. The first Mad Max film isn’t post-apocalyptic; it’s dystopian. No one’s dropped a bomb on anything yet in that film, and there’s still a functioning society to speak of; it just sucks. It’s a really rough place to live. This was their police chief and he’s already in uniform. You do the math. So we can assume that, whenever the film takes place in time (“A few years from now…” is the opening), the population is roughly what it is now while we’re all still civilized and not running over each other with motorcycles for breakfast.

There weren’t any POCs in that film either, but it was a small international affair, with a cozy cast of aw-shucks ne’er-do-wells…nothing as expansive as the other films. Basically, it was all white just like every other film about a marauding band of bikers who kill a cop’s family in 1979. Now: drop nuclear bombs on top of everything. The Road Warrior (or Mad Max 2 if you’re not an American) is a whole ‘nother ballgame. We have a full-blown apocalypse now, a complete unraveling of society and infrastructure, and the nuclear war to prove it. So let’s talk about bombs for a second. Australia is 2.9 million square miles to America’s 3.7 million. Australia has a pretty small population but it’s big. And as you might imagine, its major population centers – mostly urban – would be utterly destroyed by nuclear war. I really hope I didn’t spoil a 33-year-old movie for anyone. One nuclear bomb of almost any yield would be bad enough to decimate any city it was dropped on.

A nuclear war would drop multiple bombs in key population zones, and if you did that to Australia the cost of life would be beyond devastating: dropping a single W-78 Minuteman (350 kt) on Melbourne is approximately 147,000 people gone instantly, with almost half a million more injured. Sydney is 208,000 dead/525,000 injured. With just those two bombs you could kill or otherwise incapacitate 1.3 million Australians of only 23.5 million to begin with. Just two bombs, just one day. (Here, you can play at home …IF YOUR CONSCIENCE CAN STAND IT.) And the people of color? Remember: 76 percent of Australian blacks live in major cities or regional areas. That’s 535,800 out of the already meager 705,000 gone on day one, or shortly after. You only have 169,200 left to populate all of Australia…which is almost the size of America if you trim off a few states.

By the time Tina Turner is utterly SLAYING Bartertown in that hundred pound chainmail dress and Charlize Theron is basically owning both lanes of Fury Road we’ve had decades of fallout, a lack of anything resembling services of any kind, radioactivity, and general bad behavior ruling the land. So the question shouldn’t even be “Where are all the people of color in Mad Max Fury Road?” The question should be, “How did we ever buy Tina Turner in one of these films?” The most purely logical, shortest and coldest-ass answer to the question of where are all the black people in Mad Max: Fury Road decades after a nuclear war on Australia is, “They’re dead and you’d be lucky to see even one.” Now, if you want to get mad about the number of black people that are missing in a movie, be mad at It Follows : that flick was shot in Detroit and had almost zero black people in it, and that was before anybody dropped a bomb on it (unless you count gentrification . Boom!). She got killed quicker than any black person in any horror film ever. PROGRESS.

P.S.) Now, I need to say this out loud out the gate: this article does not negate the responsibility of a film endeavoring to be diverse to actually be diverse, such as this film does. This is just some nerd gaming. Plenty of other articles about how diverse it is or isn’t, and how that’s working. P.P.S.) I’ve been chided for not putting enough actual lists here, so here is my list of Mad Max films in order of how good they are: 1) The Road Warrior

Question: In what country did the movie "Mad Max" take place?
Answer: Australia