Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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I think we're just supposed to pretend that Tom Hardy is as old as Mel Gibson. The movies have always played kind of fast and loose with stuff.
My wife and I both subscribe to the theory that Hardy Max isn't Gibson Max. That Hardy Max is the feral kid from The Road Warrior.
George Miller is interested in mythical sagas rather than any sense of canon so that would not worry him.
Which (with all due respect) doesn't really make any sense with what we're shown/told in Fury Road, but who am I to argue with a head-canon? If the movies themselves have stuff that doesn't make sense, so can we.
Which (with all due respect) doesn't really make any sense with what we're shown/told in Fury Road, but who am I to argue with a head-canon? If the movies themselves have stuff that doesn't make sense, so can we.
"Fury Road" was originally written for Gibson, so it would have featured old Max and the timeline would have made sense. But when they cast Hardy instead they never bothered changing it.
Apart from the first, ALL Mad Max movies are stories being told after the fact. So it's no surprise that continuity is so fluid.
For instance, why Max had a daughter in Fury Road but a son in the original. The storyteller got it wrong.
For instance, why Max had a daughter in Fury Road but a son in the original. The storyteller got it wrong.
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I would struggle to see Gibson in the role in Fury Road.
This works, as well.
That wasn't actually his daughter, and she was killed by Immortan Joe's group as opposed to Toecutter's gang.
It spent a loooooooooooong time in Production Hell. Development on the film began in 1999.
If you can find a copy, I highly recommend the book 'Blood, Sweat and Chrome' an oral history of the making of 'Fury Road'.
I checked a copy out from my local library when it was first issued and read it over a weekend.
I love what Christopher TItus has to say about the Road Warrior thing. Starts at about 2:30 in this clip.
"In the middle of the apocalyptic wasteland..four smokin' hot runway models show up? That doesn't even happen in PORN!"
I have a better idea:
All Mad Max films are the fever dreams of Captain Walker (the airline pilot mentioned in the third film). As he's dying in the wreckage of his plane, he imagines he is Max.
Max is supposed to look like Captain Walker, amirite?
"In the middle of the apocalyptic wasteland..four smokin' hot runway models show up? That doesn't even happen in PORN!"
I have a better idea:
All Mad Max films are the fever dreams of Captain Walker (the airline pilot mentioned in the third film). As he's dying in the wreckage of his plane, he imagines he is Max.
Max is supposed to look like Captain Walker, amirite?
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I actually own one of Brendan McCarthy's pieces of concept art for the film. And I was wrong about it being in development since 1999, as the date on it is 1997!
Yeah, that kind of caught me off guard too, I didn't realize we were supposed to be that far off from the apocalypse.
Yeah, I can't remember if it was something directly from Miller or just fan theory, but I read somewhere that Max isn't actually a real person in the wasteland, he's just mythological figure, and the movies are just the stories being told about him.
I had been assuming that Chris Hemsworth would be young Immortan Joe, but according to Wikipedia he's playing someone named Warlord Dementus, and he's the one who takes Furiosa from The Green Place.
Looks like we're going to get to see the Green Place while it still lived up to that name.
One of the things I've found interesting is the evolution of The Wasteland as the movies have gone along. From everything just being kind of run down, but still recognizable as our society in the first movie, to everything having gone completely nuts by Beyond Thunderdome, Fury Road and now Furiosa.
Was interested.. but so much cgi that it's basically a cartoon kind of disappoints..
