Mad Max: Fury Road

[BestGirl]

What could the director possibly be doing in post that would take three years? He must be refilming the whole damn movie.

 

[ThePhantasm]

What could the director possibly be doing in post that would take three years? He must be refilming the whole damn movie.

And the movie is already over-budget... and they had WB producers on the set during production because it was so off-schedule... this sounds like a mess.

 

[dark_b]

2015? For a film that wrapped in 2012?

Something is definitely not right here.

2014 doesnt have any dates where you could realese mad max. the whole year is full. 2015 is 2 years away and there are no big movies.

i am funny

 

[dark_b]

What could the director possibly be doing in post that would take three years? He must be refilming the whole damn movie.

they have reshoots in 2014. on the same location on the same date. so that everything looks good. thats how you plan a blockbuster.

guys remind me. they filmed two movies right?

 

[ThePhantasm]

they have reshoots in 2014. on the same location at teh same date. so that everything looks good. thats how you plan a blockbuster.

guys remind me. they filmed two movies right?

One movie.

And no, that's not how you plan a blockbuster. Unless you are being sarcastic?

 

[elsewhere]

2015?!! Ughhhh

 

[ThePhantasm]

Supposedly they were going to film Furiosa with Fury Road, but I think that plan ended when they went over-budget, if I recall correctly...

 

[biolumen]

2015 is 2 years away and there are no big movies.

Spring 2015 looks fairly open, and would also be a better fit for an R rated MM movie.

What could the director possibly be doing in post that would take three years? He must be refilming the whole damn movie.

Perhaps combination of huge post production and unsuitable, near term release dates. That said, 2015 is just speculation at this point. But realistically, the earliest it could be released is Fall 2014.

 

[biolumen]

Supposedly they were going to film Furiosa with Fury Road, but I think that plan ended when they went over-budget, if I recall correctly...

The only source for the filming of 2 movies at the same time was a single article posted by Twitch some years back. Everyone else just ran with it even though nobody else backed up the rumor. FWIW, a guy who has connections to people who worked on the film told me he has never heard any talk about 2 films at once. Twitch may just have confused the fact that Miller was completing the script to Furiosa before the start of filming on FR.

 

[Teelie]

This movie is like the Duke Nukem of movies. Will it ever come out? Yes, but it will do so years away and far over budget with a huge let down for all the promise behind it.

 

[ThePhantasm]

This movie is like the Duke Nukem of movies. Will it ever come out? Yes, but it will do so years away and far over budget with a huge let down for all the promise behind it.

I'm afraid you're going to be right...

 

[Schlosser85]

Somebody needs to go on Twitter and see if they can get anything out of Hardy. That is, if Hardy even knows anymore.

 

[Teelie]

It's already been almost 30 years since it the last one. The likelyhood of another sequel coming out has bounced around practically since that time. Then we've had all the false starts, promises and hopes only for them to finally get in gear, minus the original actor and with some hasty filming from the sound of it. There's even the intervention of higher powers taking control and now an even longer wait while they do... something to it we can't guess at what because that's some extensive wait time to do some post production tweaking.

 

[jonathancrane]

This movie is like the Duke Nukem of movies. Will it ever come out? Yes, but it will do so years away and far over budget with a huge let down for all the promise behind it.

I think it will be the Chinese Democracy of films...t:

 

[Simo]

they have reshoots in 2014. on the same location on the same date. so that everything looks good. thats how you plan a blockbuster.

guys remind me. they filmed two movies right?

Nah they're about to commence pickups any day now.

I see the 2015 release more as a reshuffling by Warner Bros. given how packed next year is, and we've seen WB and other studios shuffle around some of their releases from 2013 to 2014 already which is why it got overcrowded. No worries here.

Test footage shown has been said to be looking great so far.

 

[dark_b]

there is no way that a studio would in 2013 think about a 2015 realese date when they filmed the movie. something is strange.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Nah they're about to commence pickups any day now.

I see the 2015 release more as a reshuffling by Warner Bros. given how packed next year is, and we've seen WB and other studios shuffle around some of their releases from 2013 to 2014 already which is why it got overcrowded. No worries here.

Test footage shown has been said to be looking great so far.

No worries? Let's review.

1) The crew admitted they didn't worry about lighting or consistency, they just winged it, figuring they could fix the look of the film in post
2) The film went behind schedule
3) The film went over-budget
4) The schedule and budget problems were bad enough that WB sent producers to the set to take over
5) The movie is now rumored to be set for a 2015 release date, when principal filming was completed in 2012... that's a three year post-production

 

[biolumen]

1) The crew admitted they didn't worry about lighting or consistency, they just winged it, figuring they could fix the look of the film in post

Could be the reason why Dean Semler left the project a few months before filming began.

Anyway, I'm not going to worry about it too much........yet.

 

[The Navigator]

Did George Miller not want to do this movie? "Winging it in post" seems like asking to get fired.

 

[biolumen]

3 more weeks of filming are scheduled for late Nov/early Dec. My understanding is that these are not reshoots. They ran behind schedule in South Africa, and rather than extending their stay, it was decided to shoot these interiors back in Australia at a later date. 1 year later it would seem.

btw, don't put too much faith in that Mel Gibson "rumor".

Mad Max: Fury Road shoot rolls on
[Mon 02/09/2013 07:09:00]

By Don Groves

The fourth edition of George Miller’s Mad Max franchise finished principal photography last December after a six-month shoot in Namibia and South Africa.

But that’s far from a wrap for Mad Max: Fury Road. Three weeks of additional shooting will begin in Sydney on November 22.

Casting calls have gone out for a number of roles, all believed to be non—speaking, including an Aboriginal elder, a girl, youth and husband and wife.

Talent agents have been told the producers are looking for odd, idiosyncratic faces. Given the post-Apocalyptic setting, all must have slim builds.

IF understands at least some members of the ensemble cast have also been asked to take part in the three-week shoot.

Fury Road follows Mad Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), who is caught up with a group of people fleeing across the Wasteland in a war rig driven by Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron).

Nicholas Hoult plays Nux, with Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe and Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus. Playing a group known as The Wives are Zoe Kravitz as Toast, Riley Keough as Capable, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as Splendid, Abbey Lee Kershaw as The Dag and Courtney Eaton as Fragile. Mel Gibson, the original Max, has a cameo as a character named Drifter.

The bulk of the film was shot in the Namibian desert although production moved to the Cape Town Film Studio towards the end of the shoot. Deluxe Australia is working on the post-production and visual effects.

IMDB.com lists the Warner Bros-Village Roadshow Pictures production as a 2014 release. However the film doesn’t appear on Roadshow’s release schedule.

It’s likely that few people apart from Miller and producer Doug Mitchell know when it’ll be finished and ready to release.

http://if.com.au/2013/09/02/article/Mad-Max-Fury-Road-shoot-rolls-on/CVYMLUFTFB.html

 

[Octoberist]

Now it makes sense!

Hopefully once they're done with these new scenes, WB can give the film a proper release date.

 

[dark_b]

after 12 months you dont decide to shoot new scenes. something is still wrong.

i guess i am behind the news. i forgot that Theron is the villain of the movie. this changes everything for me. so i am hyped 150%.

 

[Teelie]

She was in Prometheus too and we all know how well that went.

 

[dark_b]

in prometheus she was a spoiled rich daughter

 

[Teelie]

I meant that it was also a movie that got panned by critics and the audience as much as she was a villain for being full of ridiculous plot holes and gaps on logic and intelligence. "Oh look, a ring-shaped ship is rolling in this direction straight at me. I will run in a straight line to try outrunning it instead of smartly running to the side."