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Furious 7 may be getting closer and closer to the $2 billion mark, but $374 million worldwide gross doesn’t sound that bad either. The later is what Mad Max: Fury Road has made so far. However, it’s not the success of the latest installment of the post-apocalyptic saga what made the director consider two more films.
The thing is, they worked really hard to see the movie finally being wrapped and sent to theaters. As a matter of fact, Fury Road was in development for many years, with pre-production starting as early as 1997. Some attempts were made to shoot the film in 2001 and 2003 but were delayed due to the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War. All the setbacks eventually saw Mel Gibson departing from the project after the cancelation.
It was only in 2007 when George Miller decided to pursue producing the film again. A computer-animated project was briefly considered but later abandoned in favor of live-action. It wasn’t all just bad news, though, thinking that all this time in the preps allowed them to focus on the details.
One piece of the puzzle, the most important one if you were to ask us, are the cars. When we stumbled upon the original scale models that inspired the apocalyptical beasts in the movie we learned that Australian artist Peter Pound drew the first sketches about 15 years ago. He contributed with over 950 storyboard frames to Mad Max: Fury Road.
Overlook us mentioning all these, but it comes for a reason. You see, it proves what the movie director said, namely that there has been a lot of work put into the production of Fury Road.
Here’s what Miller told TopGear:
“This film [Fury Road] was greenlit three times and fell over three times over a decade. We went to shoot with Mel Gibson back in 2001, but then 9/11 happened, and the American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar close to 30 per cent, so we lost that amount of budget overnight….We were then rained out of Australia. The desert rained for the first time in 15 years, and we ended up in South West Africa, Namibia. But in this process, we had dug down deep into the backstory, not only of the characters but of every vehicle. How the steering wheels became religious artifacts and things like that. So we ended up with two scripts, without really trying. We’re talking to the studio [Warner Bros] about it as we speak, but which one of the two stories will happen next, I’m not so sure.”
Sounds like a plan to us.
It was only in 2007 when George Miller decided to pursue producing the film again. A computer-animated project was briefly considered but later abandoned in favor of live-action. It wasn’t all just bad news, though, thinking that all this time in the preps allowed them to focus on the details.
One piece of the puzzle, the most important one if you were to ask us, are the cars. When we stumbled upon the original scale models that inspired the apocalyptical beasts in the movie we learned that Australian artist Peter Pound drew the first sketches about 15 years ago. He contributed with over 950 storyboard frames to Mad Max: Fury Road.
Overlook us mentioning all these, but it comes for a reason. You see, it proves what the movie director said, namely that there has been a lot of work put into the production of Fury Road.
Here’s what Miller told TopGear:
“This film [Fury Road] was greenlit three times and fell over three times over a decade. We went to shoot with Mel Gibson back in 2001, but then 9/11 happened, and the American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar close to 30 per cent, so we lost that amount of budget overnight….We were then rained out of Australia. The desert rained for the first time in 15 years, and we ended up in South West Africa, Namibia. But in this process, we had dug down deep into the backstory, not only of the characters but of every vehicle. How the steering wheels became religious artifacts and things like that. So we ended up with two scripts, without really trying. We’re talking to the studio [Warner Bros] about it as we speak, but which one of the two stories will happen next, I’m not so sure.”
Sounds like a plan to us.
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