Director George Miller Speaks On Purposely Avoiding Use Of CGI In 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
It has been over three decades since Australian filmmaker George Miller made his directorial debut with the low budget, but hugely successful, post-apocalyptic action film 'Mad Max,' which also propelled Hollywood legend Mel Gibson into worldwide fame.
The pair's first collaboration was so well received, two sequels soon followed with 1981´s 'The Road Warrior' and 1985´s 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'. But with an entirely new cast, different leading man and much more advanced filming techniques, how did Miller bring the 80's classic into the modern age of cinematography with 'Mad Max: Fury Road'?
The rebooted franchise now has Tom Hardy in the leading role, and the supporting cast is equally impressive with the likes of Charlize Theron, Nicolas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, plus many more.
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Although Miller will undoubtedly not regret joining such a star-studded production, he initially had no intention of returning to the film series that gave him global recognition.
Turn to the next page to read what Miller said about crashing plenty of cars!
_While attending the San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, the 69 year-old director told Hero Complex, "I definitely did not intend to make another 'Mad Max.' Having done three, I didn't want to do any more."_
However, Miller noted "14 years ago, this idea came to me as I was walking across a pedestrian crossing, and I thought, 'That was a 'Mad Max' idea!' I put it aside, but once the seed was there, I found it would pop up from time to time like an imaginary friend."
And very surprisingly, even though 'Fury Road' is expected to be a huge action spectacle, a lot of the scenes were actually filmed on location and not green screened.
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"We crashed a lot of cars; every stunt was done, if not by the cast then by some very fine stunt men; and it was shot on a real location," he added. "I've had enough experience with CG to know that you can't really get some of that immersive material authentic in a way."
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Miller echoed this point to Entertainment Weekly, explaining, "I know when I see too much CG, that sort of takes me out of the experience. You want to have that sort of almost, I'm not going to say documentary experience, but you want to feel it like you're really immersed, like it's really happening. So we decided to literally do every car that's smashed is smashed, every stunt is a real human being, even the actors do a lot of their own stunts, and so on."
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Fans can expect the similar plot line of an apocalyptic earth without any functioning societies left, in the forsaken land the few survivors chose to fight as a necessity to survive, but one man still believes he can restore humanity and have order once again.