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“I remember watching through the video camera lens as he’s running this scene, and I suddenly started to believe it. After running through dozens of young men, Gibson arrived. As Miller remembers it, he first tried to cast Max with an American star, but quickly found out he couldn’t afford one. According to TCM, that story has been refuted by everyone else at the audition, who say Gibson was immediately seen as leading-man material.Ĥ. The filmmakers, he says, invited him back a few weeks later because they were “looking for freaks.” When he returned, healed and handsome, he won the leading role. Gibson’s story about how he landing the role of Max starts with him showing up at the audition bruised from a bar fight.
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“The kind of movie that Hitchcock would say, ‘They didn’t have to read the subtitles in Japan,’” he says.ģ. Miller has said when he set out to make Mad Max, his goal was to make a modern silent film with sound. Much of the physical violence in the movie was informed by what he learned treating car-crash victims.Ģ. Director George Miller was a medical doctor who began taking film classes in his down time. Read it before you hit that Road one more time.ġ. To get geared up for Mad Max: Fury Road, we revisited the first three films and dug through director’s commentary and old interviews to compile this list of little known facts. This Friday the fourth installment hits theaters. Six years after the film’s release, director George Miller had made two sequels - 1981’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - and Gibson was on the verge of superstardom. But that’s just what it became, thanks to brutal, daredevil stunt sequences and a baby-faced lead named Mel Gibson. The original 1979 movie didn’t exactly have the hallmarks a global phenomenon - it was a post-apocalyptic Australian action flick made on a tiny budget with unknown actors. Mel Gibson in ‘The Road Warrior’ (Everett)Īs far as unlikely film trilogies go, there’s nothing quite like the Mad Max series.