So how did Miller and his cast pull it off and survive to tell the tale?įive years after “ Fury Road” was released, I asked 20 of its key players what making it was like. “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho said last year that the scale of the movie brought him to tears, while Steven Soderbergh put it more bluntly: “I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film,” he said in a 2017 interview, “and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.” “ Mad Max: Fury Road” set a new high-water mark for action filmmaking when it came out in 2015, and no summer blockbuster since has been able to match its turbocharged ingenuity.Įven Oscar-winning auteurs have been awed by George Miller’s operatically staged spectacle. The characters were intriguing, the stunts were exhilarating, and every frame was bursting with incredible, how’d-they-do-that nerve.
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