"Mad Max - Fury Road" kicks up a desert storm

  • 9 years ago
The latest instalment of the Mad Max franchise is noisily hitting cinema screens around the world at the moment, and director George Miller who created the dystopian world in the original 1979 movie that made a star of him and Mel Gibson, has a much bigger budget, and stars to play with for the revival.

Oscar-winning Charlize Theron stars alongside a new Max, Tom Hardy

“The nature of this beast was that it was to push the boundaries of what was possible with cars, with physical performance and story narrative combined together. So there’s very little dialogue in it and it’s a very simple tale in narrative, but there’s an abundance of extravagant stunts and car play which is happening in real time. So it was definitely, it asked a lot. It was very ambitious,” says Hardy.

According to Theron, filming the brutal, desolate post-apocalyptic thriller in the Namibian desert for a lengthy eight months
was intense, to say the least.

Theron admitted that she and co-star Tom Hardy clashed