Mad Max: Fury Road

[matrix_ghost]

Originally Posted by dark_b

so the movie is in 3D and its filmed with digital 2D cameras?

Read the article again.


Miller was deveoping new 3-d rigs but they weren't sure the rigs could withstand the harsh conditions in Africa , which is why they're going convert the movie.
Yes native 3-d is always better but given enough time post-converted flicks can also be very good.
THis is pure speculation on my part . MAd Max never really was a series that had huge amounts of CG work. It's mostly been about practical stunts.
So technically Miller would be able to finish his movie for a release date next year. However considering that 2013 is slowly filling up with more and more movies , i wouldn't be surprised if WB decided to use basically take their time with the conversion process and release it in 2014.

[dark_b]

i am watching the movie in 2D.sorry but the vince pace 3D rigs are good enough for action scenes in africa. so they still had a chance to use them after they realized that their rigs didnt work. how could they work? vince pace spend 10 years on those rigs. and miller thought his team could create them in 2 years?

[matrix_ghost]

Originally Posted by dark_b

i am watching the movie in 2D.sorry but the vince pace 3D rigs are good enough for action scenes in africa. so they still had a chance to use them after they realized that their rigs didnt work. how could they work? vince pace spend 10 years on those rigs. and miller thought his team could create them in 2 years?

And you know this because ?
The pace camera rig isn't just any ordinary camera rig in that you could baically use it for any movie regardless on where , how or what they are shooting. They have to make changes to the rigs .
Do some googling on Dark of the Moon. You'd be surprised just how much was converted from 2d to 3-d either because of the footage shot with 3-d cameras just didn't match or because the camera rigs just couldn't match Bay's explosive style of filmmaking.

[venus_ice]

The beard lives!

[Simo]

I'm just pumped we're now getting some kind of set photos and the film is actually happening, even if it means following biolumen's news updates from here to madmaxmovies.com.

Hopefully we'll get more shots next week and are they still planning on using the Interceptor shown in the Aussie press conference from 3 years or so again?

[obin_gam]

Set pic of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and some other costars that she just tweeted:



hang me on spikes on a hood, or decapitate me with a boomerang, but I think she looks quite really good there

[dark_b]

the 4 girls in the pic play 4 prostitutes that work for the villain?

[Van Petrol]

Can't wait to see Hardy in this!

[corby]

Here's a pic from the Bat forum of what Tom looks like with his beard.

[Van Petrol]

^ OT, but I want to see this man as the next James Bond!

[Kaleb]

I kinda would like to see hardy play a bond villian.

Anyway my mom(who lives in Cape Town) was telling me that there was a large of people (majority of them teens) busy fighting in the streets on saturday night and it turned out they were busy filming a scene from a movie,so I'm wondering if they were filming Mad Max:FR.

[Octoberist]

Originally Posted by obin_gam

Set pic of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and some other costars that she just tweeted:



hang me on spikes on a hood, or decapitate me with a boomerang, but I think she looks quite really good there

Is the girl in the background Asian? Or mixed?

[biolumen]

I think that's Adelaide Clemens.

[Octoberist]

Might be the dye job and the grainy lighting. Otherwise, she's as white as snow.

[biolumen]

Filming has started.

[Gianakin_]

Finally! After 134 years of development hell!

[chamber-music]

Originally Posted by obin_gam

Set pic of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and some other costars that she just tweeted:



hang me on spikes on a hood, or decapitate me with a boomerang, but I think she looks quite really good there

I see Zoe Kravitz from X-Men First Class rocking the shades.

Is Charlize Theron the villain in this?

Is Nicholas Hoult still in the film?

[craigdbfan]

I can't wait until we see Hardy sporting the all black leather get up.

[kurac]

Originally Posted by chamber-music

I see Zoe Kravitz from X-Men First Class rocking the shades.

Is Charlize Theron the villain in this?

Is Nicholas Hoult still in the film?

theron is not the villain as far as we know and yes ,hoult is in it

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I'm looking forward to Theron in all leather the most.

[biolumen]

[biolumen]

Translated from Afrikaans

'Mad Max' take on Namib horns
2012-07-07 22:07

Karin Burger

The desert between Swakopmund and Walvis Bay was a hive of activity on the movie Mad Max: Fury Road currently here filmed.

Charlize Theron plays the lead role and she is regularly in the villages noted.

On her arrival at the Walvis Bay airport customs officers her passport on the plane going to die. When she on the runway in a car and she Swakopmund taken.

The production team of about 800 people went to Long Beach home and the actors live in private houses in Swakopmund.

According to residents, the production team since February in Namibia to vehicles to build and test.

Only the best drivers are used for risk scenes.

Most of the drivers of the vehicles is about 140 Australians. Each vehicle is built three replicas and those working in a barn in Walvis done.

The fire and traffic division of the Walvis Bay Municipality is harnessed to the vehicles between the various points to help regulate. According to rumors, the movie has already cost $ 150 million (about R1, 2 billion). Filming ends in the first week of December.

Merryl Herbert, a resident of Walvis Bay and an extra in the movie, the baby died when her house last week burnt down. The production team has a football tournament held the money on her gift.

http://www.rapport.co.za/Wereld/Nuus/Mad-Max-neem-Namib-op-horings-20120707

[Clu]

damn long filming schedule. but that just means its going to be even more awesome as they are taking their time with it.

[biolumen]

Charlize sparks Mad Max fever in Namibian dorpie

8 Jul 2012 Sunday Times

HOLLYWOOD star Charlize Theron rocked her baby, Jackson, to sleep in her arms between film shoots in the dunes around Swakopmund in Namibia.

The bombshell from Benoni also displayed a healthy appetite when the cameras stopped rolling — tucking into medium-rare beef fillet, pork schnitzel with chips and pizza takeaways.

And it appears that the Oscarwinning actress likes to freshen up with old favourites Nivea and Radoxafter a long day on set.

Theron arrived in the seaside town two weeks ago to film Mad Max 4: Fury Road, alongside Australian strongman-turnedactor Nathan Jones and Britain’s Tom Hardy.

Hardy will portray the title character in the fourth instalment of the action film franchise, which first aired in 1979 with Mel Gibson in the title role.

It is believed that Theron, who had tabloids aflutter recently after having her locks shorn to a buzz cut for the role, will portray his love interest in the multimillion-rand movie.

This week Swakopmund, primarily a holiday destination 30km from Walvis Bay, buzzed with celebrity fever and the hamlet’s guesthouses and hotels brimmed with film crew and cast members.

Staff at a local beauty and massage parlour literally had their hands full massaging the aching muscles of the movie’s stunt doubles.

Theron has often been seen dining and shopping in the town without bodyguards and cradling her recently adopted six-month-old son. Locals described her as friendly and still fluent in Afrikaans.

Last Thursday the star stopped by at Swakopmunder Apotheke where she stocked up on vitamins, shampoo, makeup remover and Radox shower gel infused with lemon grass and lime.

“It was quite strange,” said Melvoureen Cloete, who works at the pharmacy.

“She skipped the fancy, expensive counters and bought Nivea makeup remover and just ordinary shampoo. She was very, very friendly.”

The actress has also earned a reputation among Swakopmund’s restaurant staff for leaving generous tips.

Doreen Khoe-aos from Café Anton, on the town’s palm-lined beach front, said Theron ordered a pork schnitzel and chips with juice and left a R78 tip on a R222 bill.

“She was here with two friends and her baby. She was really nice,” said Khoe-aos.

Yvonne Kharogas, a waitress at The Wreck restaurant, served Theron medium-rare beef fillet with chips, a Greek salad, and a glass of shiraz.

Theron visited the upmarket restaurant with three women and Jackson.

“Jackson became a little bit restless so Charlize got up holding him against her chest and walked around the restaurant until he slept.

“Her food even grew cold while she was putting him to sleep. Then she handed him to one of the other women and finally ate,” said Kharogas.

“She had a good appetite. She nearly finished everything on her plate.”

Jones, meanwhile, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for eight armed robberies before he turned to professional wrestling and eventually acting, honed his muscles at the Aquarius Health and Fitness Centre, next door to the Swakopmund Hotel.

Pin-up pictures adorn the walls at the gym, which offers a small assortment of dated equipment.

A staff member said: “Nathan usually weighs about 150kg but had to lose 30kg for the film as it is about famine and he has to look thinner.”

Jones famously fought Brad Pitt ’ s character, Achilles, in the film Troy .

But some of Swakopmund’s residents have raised concerns over the movie, directed by Australian George Miller. Desert tour operator Tommy Collard said the crew were not adhering to conservation rules in the “sensitive and protected” dune belt of the Dorob National Park, the primary filming location.

Filming on Mad Max 4 was moved to Namibia after unprecedented rainfall rendered the original Australian locations unsuitably lush.

Local production company Moonlighting did not respond to questions.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/

[biolumen]