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George Miller Interview: The genius behind Mad Max. The original Mad Max cost $300K and has made $100 million and influenced culture worldwide, now 36 years later it's back: Mad Max Fury Road!
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With “Mad Max: Fury Road,” director/writer/producer George Miller unleashes a world gone mad with the concussive force of a high octane Road War as only he can deliver it. The mastermind behind the seminal “Mad Max” trilogy has pushed the limits of contemporary cinema to re-imagine the beauty and chaos of the post-apocalyptic world he created and the mythic Road Warrior adrift within it.
Miller always envisioned a film that would play out as a breathless chase from start to finish. “I think of action movies as a kind of visual music, and ‘Fury Road’ is somewhere between a wild rock concert and an opera,” Miller comments. “I want to sweep the audience out of their seats and into an intense, rambunctious ride, and along the way you get to know who these characters are and the events that led up to this story.”
Producer Doug Mitchell, Miller’s filmmaking partner for 35 years, says the decade-long effort to bring “Mad Max: Fury Road” to the screen has itself been an exhilarating ride. “George has a brilliantly creative mind, but with that creativity comes a certain pragmatism. A project of this scale could only be possible with that combination, which he intuitively possesses. We’ve gotten through some tight corners and hilarious moments along the way, but for me, it’s been a wonderful privilege to be there with him on his epic journey.”
For Miller, the road goes back further. In the late 1970s, he was just out of medical school when, fueled by his love for cinema’s early action and chase movies, he set out to rediscover their pure visual language on his own. Drawing from his experiences as an emergency room doctor, he conceived a tale of a solitary figure in a world stripped bare following the collapse of society, and terrorized by psychotic road gangs.
The result was “Mad Max,” which burst onto screens in 1979 and sent shockwaves through the culture. As the “Mad Max” legend grew, Miller escalated his singular brand of propulsive action and immersive world-building with the two films that followed—the iconic “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” and the operatic “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”
GEORGE MILLER (Director, Writer, Producer) most recently directed, wrote and produced the action adventure “Mad Max: Fury Road,” which brings his iconic post-apocalyptic title character back to the big screen.
Miller won the Academy Award in 2007 for Best Animated Feature Film for the smash hit “Happy Feet,” starring Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Hugo Weaving. For “Happy Feet,” Miller was also awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Feature, as well as numerous other accolades, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animation and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film. The American Film Institute named “Happy Feet” as of the Top Ten Best Films of 2006. He went on to direct, write and produce the sequel “Happy Feet 2.”
Miller is also a three-time Oscar nominee. He was honored with nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for his work as a producer and a writer on the breakout hit family feature “Babe.” The film earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. In addition, “Babe” garnered four BAFTA Award nominations, including two for Miller for Best Film and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical. Miller had received his first Oscar nomination, for Best Original Screenplay, for the moving drama “Lorenzo’s Oil,” which he co-wrote, directed and produced. The film starred Susan Sarandon, who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and Nick Nolte.
Miller made his feature film directorial debut on the international success “Mad Max,” which he also co-wrote. The film launched the career of its star, Mel Gibson, and spawned two successful sequels, “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.”
He also directed, produced and co-wrote the “Babe” sequel, “Babe: Pig in the City.” Miller’s other film directing credits include “The Witches of Eastwick,” starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer; and the “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” segment of “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” |