Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is an Action packed reboot of Mad Max (1979). The movie is set in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two rebels just might be able to restore order: Max, a man of action and of few words, and Furiosa, a woman of action who is looking to make it back to her childhood homeland.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is been directed by iconic director George Miller and stars Tom Hardy as Max Rockantasky and Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. The movie also stars Nicholas Hoult as Nux.
I have put together a list of Interesting facts and details about Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Let’s have a look.
16. The jacket worn by actor Tom Hardy in this movie is a replica of the one worn by actor Mel Gibson in the second two movies of the original trilogy. The Gibson jacket was found in storage at Kennedy-Miller and copied heavily.
- Tom Hardy as Max in Mad Max: Fury Road
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15. The flame-shooting guitarist shown in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is Australian artist/musician Sean Hape, better known as Iota. In an interview on Vice (2013), he said the guitar weighed 132 pounds, and shot real gas-powered flames, which he controlled using the whammy bar.
- Flame Thrower Guitarist
14. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is edited by Margaret Sixel. She is director George Miller's wife. When she asked her husband why he thought she should do it as she had never edited an action film before, Miller replied, "Because if a guy did it, it would look like every other action movie."
- Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
13. Actress Charlize Theron reportedly shaved her head for the role of Furiosa and as a result had to wear a wig for her role in movie A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).
- Charlize Theron as Furiosa
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12. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is considered an Ozploitation movie, an Australian genre and/or Australian exploitation movie.
- Mad Max: Fury Road
11. Since main antagonist in movie Immortan Joe wears a full breathing mask in all of his scenes, no part of his face below his eyes is ever seen.
- Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Instead of the reboot being a remake of Mad Max (1979), revealing how Max Rockantasky became The Road Warrior, George Miller decided that the reboot will take place in the post-apocalyptic Australia, years after the new Max (Tom Hardy) lost his family. He did not wish to do a remake or retell the story that had already been told and had wanted to update the universe and the wasteland and wanted new moviegoers to remember Max as a man with nothing to lose after losing his family.
- Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
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9. Over 80% of the effects seen in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) are real practical effects, stunts, make-up and sets. CGI was used sparingly mainly to enhance the Namibian landscape, remove stunt rigging and for Charlize Theron's left hand which in the film is a prosthetic arm.
- Charlize Theron as Furiosa
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