Mad Max: Fury Road - Part 1

[DarthDorranceBane]

Some people from the advance screening said he does this indeterminate accent.

One person said it wasn't American, but not British either, and another person it had hints of an Aussie accent but not completely.

Reportedly he also doesn't talk much.

So, his Bane accent?

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Eat some hi-res images, fools! So commands Humungus!

http://www.superherohype.com/news/3...-resolution-mad-max-fury-road-images#/slide/1

 

[Sawyer]

So, his Bane accent?

God willing.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Yeah, that slightly Aussie-sounding Bane

 

[chamber-music]

Hardy should use his Welsh accent from Locke

 

[Schlosser85]

Or Heath Ledger's voice from Brokeback Mountain he stole in Lawless.

 

[kvz5]

 

[chamber-music]

So will they be fighting over the last pot of Vegemite and packet of Tim Tams?

 

[Evil Twin]

Either way, i realy like how different the first film is from the rest of the series, it looks like Mad Max 2 and 3 are Classic Mad Max, while the first one is the origin you don't need to see in order to understand what's going on, but can pick up anytime if you're interested enough.

I think it's important to note that Mad Max 2 and 3 operated under the classic Yojimbo/Shane/A Fistful of Dollars template of "a stranger wanders into a situation". If audiences really need an explanation on Max's character, and IMO they don't, then a quick prelude like in Mad Max 2 is sufficient.

 

[Simo]

I think it's important to note that Mad Max 2 and 3 operated under the classic Yojimbo/Shane/A Fistful of Dollars template of "a stranger wanders into a situation". If audiences really need an explanation on Max's character, and IMO they don't, then a quick prelude like in Mad Max 2 is sufficient.

There is a prelude/backstory in FURY ROAD. To elaborate and minor spoilers...

Spoiler

The film opens immediately with a frantic chase across the Wasteland with Max in his Interceptor being pursued by a large convoy of vehicles from Gasstown and the Citadel. The chase ends and cuts to the title card and opening credits which is a prelude/backstory for Max and the world.

Being that the new poster, which is great btw, is a Comic Con exclusive I'm wondering if it's a prelude to the footage that will be screened on Saturday? Not that it matters anyway since we won't get to see it anyway.

 

[Rowsdower!]

"What a lovely, lovely day!"

 

[biolumen]

 

[biolumen]

Insane ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Footage Debuts, Destroys Comic-Con

Bring on the Fury.

It’s been a long, hard road to get to the long, hard road of “Mad Max: Fury Road” — but we’re almost there.

At San Diego Comic-Con, director George Miller and Warner Bros. brought the new “Mad Max” movie to fans, with some concept art and new footage that pulled the curtain back a bit on a film that’s essentially just one gigantic chase sequence.

“The story popped in my head and just wouldn’t get away, like an imaginary friend,” Miller said. “I love chase movies; I think they’re the purest form of cinema. That’s where the film language started. I wanted to make one long, extended chase, and see what we could pick up about the characters along the way.”

The “extended chase sequence” is on full display in the footage that Miller brought to Comic-Con. It begins with a long-haired Tom Hardy as Max, stomping on a lizard, then eating it. He hops in his muscle car and drives off into the barren desert — and before long, he’s captured by monstrous looking thugs, who take him to their lair, shave his hair off, tattoo him and chain him up — complete with a muzzle that looks almost Bane-esque. Except some “Fury Road”/”Dark Knight Rises” mash-ups come 2015.

The action picks up when Charlize Theron’s Furiosa and her band attack Max’s captors, instigating an insanely kinetic chase sequence with roaring muscle cars, exploding trucks, electric dust storms, flying bodies, and entirely unrecognizable and crazy performance from Nicolas Hoult.

At one point, muzzled Max, chained to the back of Hoult’s car, watches in awe as trucks and cars get swirled up into a flaming dust storm, exploding and sending bodies flying every which way. The shot is unflinching, the violence unforgiving; the scene seems to be on the edge of ending at every turn, but it just keeps going, getting more and more brutal and loud, until Hoult finally cuts the tension:

“What a lovely day,” he shouts. “What a lovely day!”

It’s just a taste of the non-stop action that Miller has in mind for “Fury Road.” He said that it was a “crazy but interesting” experience to go back to the world of “Mad Max,” but casting his three leads made the job much easier.

“People often say that 75% of your job is done as a director in the casting,” he said. “I was waiting for someone like Tom Hardy to come along; he has all the qualities. And Charlize, when you get to see the movie, there are certain dimensions of Charlize that fit the character of Furiosa. And the same, in many ways, with Nick Hoult.”

Miller said that he didn’t want to make “Fury Road” in a conventional way; as such, rather than writing a script, he first teamed up with co-writer and artist Brendan McCarthy to storyboard the entire film “as one long comic book; it was 3,500 panels. There’s not many words spoken in the movie. People only speak when they have to. I wanted to tell the story as best as possible in pictures.”

Even with new actors and new technology, Miller said that “Fury Road” calls back to the themes and tone prevalent throughout “Mad Max,” especially “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.”

“There’s no rule of law. There’s no honor,” he said. “People are just surviving. It’s like a Western: a very spare and clear movie. You can get away from all the clever.”

“Mad Max: Fury Road” hits on May 15, 2015.

http://www.mtv.com/news/1880067/mad-max-fury-road-comic-con-footage/

 

[#root]

That sounds amazing . I really need to see a trailer for this

 

[henry_9305]

Where is the trailer?

 

[Kaleb]

 

[Kaleb]

 

[SWAT]

Orange and blue... Orange... and... bluuuuuue

 

[Hunter Rider]

Cool posters! Interesting that Max seems to have one of those comms earpieces in that Jack Bauer wears. The mask design on Immortan Joe is great.

 

[Kaleb]

From the Warner Panel they just had this sounds like the most promising film

 

[BestGirl]

This movie is either going to be brilliant or a total disaster. No in-between.

 

[biolumen]

More spoilerage.

The original Mad Max trilogy put Max Rockatansky through the wringer, to the point where his sanity was hanging by a thread. But after seeing a whole lot of footage from Mad Max: Fury Road, we're not sure there's any way Max can actually hold it together this time. This film looks just crazy.

Spoilers ahead...

We start out in a completely bleak, lifeless desert, looking at Mad Max's back as he stares out at the landscape, standing next to a car that looks dead. We hear newscasters talking about the water shortage and water wars, and the fact that we "are killing for gasoline." A lizard runs around in the foreground and then gets close to Max... who steps on it.

A voiceover says, "My name is Max. My world is fire and blood."

We finally see Max's angry, intense face, and then he grabs a bag of his **** and jumps into his car, which springs to life with a whirl of the rotor on its roof. He drives off like a bat out of hell, being chased by mutants with wrecked buggies and improvised vehicles that look straight out of the original trilogy. Everything looks super hacked-together. Rockets go off, making brightly colored smoke clouds in the air.

Everything bursts into flames, and Max's car rolls over and wipes out. And then... Tom Hardy ends up being on the receiving end of the treatment he gave Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises. They cut off Max's hair and shave his head, and tattoo weird words on his back, and he's a prisoner of these crazy post-apocalyptic savages, led by a long-haired man with a skull mouth mask over his mouth.

"It is by my hand," a sinister voice says, "you will rise."

Soon, hairless and mostly naked Tom Hardy is brooding in a cage, suspended over a chamber. In another chamber, the skull-mouth guy comes into a chamber where "WHO KILLED THE WORLD" is written on the floor.

Meanwhile, these beautiful women in flowy white saint outfits are being chased, and only Charlize Theron can keep them safe. "We are not beasts," somebody protests. And Charlize Theron says they will do better with a head start.

Soon it's a big chase, with the post-apocalyptic mutant people in tankers and buggies, chasing after Charlize and her Daeneryses. And Mad Max is chained up on the front of a buggy, with a gimp mask on his face that makes him look a bit Bane-like. Max looks actually desperate and kind of broken. He's gagged and bound and helpless in the middle of all this chaos.

There are motorcycles flying everywhere, and brutal mayhem, and the skull-mouth guy is in his element. Until at last Max breaks free and climbs on top of the car he's been trapped on, and he finally kicks the bald albino mutant who's been tormenting him off, so the guy goes flying.

And just when you think the insane chase and battle can't get any crazier, there's a freaking giant tornado, with lightning coming off it, and everybody pretty much drives into the middle of it. Cars are being picked up and flung around in all directions, and there is lightning going everywhere, with cars bursting into flames. The goggle-wearing guy driving the car that Mad Max is stuck on the back of opens all the hoses in his cockpit to flood his car with gasoline, while he says this is a lovely day. And Mad Max sees this and gets pretty alarmed — especially after they guy lights a flare and sprays silver paint all over his mouth. Mad Max punches through the glass of the car (which he's still chained to) but it's too late.

Mad Max is thrown in mid air as the car collides with another one, and soon everything is on fire.

And then... Mad Max climbs out of the sand, still alive and pissed. He carries the goggle-wearing driver of that car off with him, still chained.

Soon, Mad Max teams up with Charlize who asks him if he wants to get through this. And then there's more chasing, except Max is driving a car now, and cars are wiping out all over, with people being crushed. One of the Daeneryses is being lifted up into the air by some kind of lasso out of her car, crying helplessly. A car is shredded under a giant truck.

We see a shot of Max looking sad, and Charlize asks what his name is.

And the biggest takeaway from the Q&A? That guy with the goggles tormenting Max is actually the same actor as Toe-Cutter from the original movie.

Said director George Miller, "Chase movies are the purest form of cinema." He "wanted to make one long chase and pick up the story along the way. It was certainly familiar, but a lot of time has passed [and] the technology has changed. It was a real opportunity to go back an revisit it. It was really interesting thing to do — crazy and interesting… I was waiting for someone like Tom Hardy to come along."

Also, Miller explained more about how this movie didn't have a script — instead, they made a storyboard with 3,500 frames, basically like a comic book, co-written by Miller, Brendan McCarthy and a few other collaborators.

Drew McWeeny's take.

Mad Max lives as George Miller debuts remarkable 'Fury Road' footage
SIZZLE REEL SHOWS OFF TOM HARDY AND CHARLIZE THERON

By Drew McWeeny @DrewatHitFix | SATURDAY, JUL 26, 2014 2:47 PM

As exciting as the "Batman v Superman" footage was, I have to confess that the massive sizzle reel that George Miller brought to show from "Max Max: Fury Road" caused a huge emotional reaction for me, and I think it comes down to the importance of "The Road Warrior" to me as a fan of movie action in general.

The first time I saw "The Road Warrior," it was on PPV in a hotel room, and I had to watch it with the sound turned down low because my parents, who had no idea I had ordered it, were sleeping in the next room. Even seen like that, panned and scanned and on a 13" screen, it punched a hole in me. I saw things I'd never seen and it offered up a view of Hell that has stuck with me ever since.

The footage Miller brought with him was amazing. I know we've devalued words like amazing and awesome by using them to describe sandwiches and parties and tennis shoes, but I was genuinely dazzled by what Miller showed. It starts with the image from the teaser poster that was released last week, with Max standing and looking out over the horizon. A small two-headed lizard climbs up onto a rock and looks around, then scurries down and over the sand, towards Max. Just as it gets to him, he stomps it under his boot.

He immediately turns, grabs all of his things from the ground, and throws them into that familiar black car before jumping in, gunning the engine, and taking off. Moments later, four or five other cars, loaded up with freaky dudes, race in and head out in pursuit of him.

Max loses that first race, and they destroy his car. He's taken prisoner by a group led by Immorten Joe, who is as strikingly designed as Lord Humungous or Master Blaster, with long white hair and a crazy mask, and while it's not immediately evident, Miller revealed to us that he's played by the same actor who was The Toecutter in the first film. That's one of the coolest touches, and it certainly feels like there are so many things in this footage that evoke the first three films. There's a great shot of Immorten Joe in a room where a question has been carved into the floor in a large spiral: WHO KILLED THE WORLD?

At some point, it looks like Furiosa (Charlize Theron) crosses paths with Immorten Joe, and she is visually remarkable as well, with her robot arm and her buzzed hair. She appears to be a protector of a group of young women including Zoe Kravitz and Rosie Huntington-Wheatley, and the majority of what we saw was from a chase sequence where Immorten Joe's men are trying to capture a tanker truck driven by Furiosa.

During that chase, it looks like Max is strapped to the front of the car in an image that is directly out of "The Road Warrior." Remember that poor bastard who was driven out in front of Lord Humungous's ranks? That's exactly what Max looks like, only it's in the middle of a car chase across a desert, heading directly into what looks like a giant mass of fire tornadoes.

There are remarkable action beats during the chase, and Max starts to work his way loose, trying desperately not to die. He's not interesting in being a hero or helping anyone. He just wants to live, and at one point, the guy whose car he's now chained to decides that he's ready to die. The driver starts pulling fuel lines loose, flooding the cab of the car with gas, spray painting his face silver, and preparing for a full on immolation.

I am dying to see this movie. I cannot believe the things I saw. God bless George Miller, the mad genius, and his fetish for destroying vehicles in the most amazing of ways. I wish they'd played the footage ten times in a row.

"Max Max: Fury Road" opens on May 15, 2015, and I plan to go get in line for the movie as soon as Comic-Con ends. See you there.

http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...arkable-fury-road-footage#H7togwVrYPI0diSQ.99


Indiewire's take.

Bring The Mayhem: 4 New Character Posters of 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Released; New Footage Wows Comic-Con

NEWS BY DREW TAYLOR
JULY 26, 2014 4:29 PM

If there's a "winner" so far from Comic-Con, it's WB's "Mad Max: Fury Road" which utterly awed San Diego audiences this afternoon in Hall H. Four new character posters have been released. Here's our inside Hall-H report.

Shortly before the Warner Bros. panel in the cavernous Hall H at Comic Con, we were handed a T-shirt that said "Comic Con 2014 Belongs to the Mad." After seeing the panel for "Mad Max: Fury Road," we wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment. Director George Miller was on hand, along with a special video message from Charlize Theron, but the real excitement came in the form of the footage that was screened – a mind-boggling mix of practical and computer generated effects, with car chases the likes of which that have never been captured on screen before. This is some next-level, fire-breathing, post-apocalyptic mayhem.

When moderator Chris Hardwicke asked Miller why he wanted to return to the sun-bleached landscape of "Mad Max," Miller said: "The story popped into my head and just wouldn't go away. Like an imaginary friend. I love chase movies, I think they're the purest form of cinema. That's where the film language started," Miller said. "I wanted to make one long extended chase and see what we can pick up from the characters and story along the way."

(Charlize, in a pre-recorded message, said: "To work with George Miller is like being told you won the lottery. The idea of working with a filmmaker like George and attempting to re-imagine this world, for me as an actor, felt like such an opportunity.")

And when the footage for the movie was screened, this was pretty much confirmed. Over footage of a vast desert landscape, Tom Hardy, as the new Mad Max, narrates: "My name is Max. My world is fire and blood." A two-headed lizard, evocative of some kind of high-powered radiation, skitters towards Max – who is all bedraggled and hairy. His typical post-apocalyptic S&M gear looked tarnished and ragged. Max is engaged in some kind of chase, and captured by a scary man in a white gas mask that's painted like a skull. Nicholas Hoult is in white face paint, dressed like someone from the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations (at one point he sprays silver metallic paint into his mouth).

The heathens that capture Max tie him to the front of a car and start driving towards a swirling dust storm – it's like something from the Dust Bowl but mixed with some crazy phantasmagorical weather formation. Lightning bolts shoot down from the sky and smack into the earth with a thunderous clap. Charlize is driving some kind of tanker truck, full of some unknown liquid (we've heard that it's not gas…) Cars crash into each other and debris flies around. It looked insane; a cacophonous, almost indescribable level of raw violence and, of course, fury. The idea that Miller wanted to do a pure car chase movie and get narrative and character details out through that chase very much comes across; there is barely any dialogue uttered and most of that dialogue is interspersed with grunts of exertion. This is a post-apocalyptic world, bleak and unforgiving, more heightened and bloody than anything that had come before it. It looks like all the pain they went through making this movie ended up on screen in a big, big way.

When it came to the design of the vehicles, Miller was guided by two principles. "We had to say to the designers: 'You can only base it on real vehicles and only things likely to survive,'" Miller explained. "So things with too many computers and so on wouldn't survive. So that was the rule that we used when it came to the vehicles."

Someone asked Miller what the movie was like, tonally, and he said that it was closer in spirit to the sequel, "Mad Max 2" (known here as "The Road Warrior"). "It's closer to 'Mad Max 2,'" Miller said. Then he elaborated: "Simply because it happens over a short period of time, over a few days, and it's an extended chase. And tonally that's more what Mad Max 2 was." (And the footage also reiterates this.)

Of course, Mel Gibson was also brought up, with moderator Hardwicke saying that he essentially turned into Mad Max. This was something that Miller took in stride. "We all ask the question – what is charisma? Part of that is they have that internal tension," Miller said, in regards to working with Gibson. "On one hand they are extremely lovable and on the other hand, there's a little bit of danger. I'm simplifying it." He said that Hardy shares the same tension that made Gibson such a wonderfully combustible Max: "Tom has that quality. He's extremely lovable but also has a quality that's like watching a big wild animal – you don't know what they're going to do next. I've been lucky."

And while it's been decades since Miller last engaged with Max and his bloodthirsty ilk, in many ways Miller feels very connected with that original mindset. "What happens is, you really put your skills and wisdom into your work. And I hope I've matured. I am one of those people who is quite fascinated by how the world evolves – some of it is involving and some is quite scary," Miller said. "I look back at the old films and I can barely remember how I understood how to make them." It all came back to him when he got back onto "Fury Road," when he was thrust back to that primal place. "When I got to this movie and you go out there for over 100 days crashing vehicles in the African desert and you kind of lose yourself and are working off instinct and gut."

When "Mad Max: Fury Road" burns rubber onto the screen next summer, it promises to transport audiences to a place at once familiar but also totally new. Max is a character who seems even better suited to today's ****ed-up world than ever.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...-fury-road-released-new-footage-wows-20140726

 

[dark_b]

http://badassdigest.com/2014/07/26/sdcc-mad-max-fury-road-debuts-synapse-searing-footage/

''Max says one of his sixteen lines in this footage (sixteen lines confirmed by George Miller!).''

 

[Simo]

Movie is screening Wednesday night in Burbank at the AMC 16. Must be under 28 years old and have a pass to attend.

 

[Schlosser85]

Any Hypesters able to attend?