The Visionary
George Miller, director, co-writer, and producer of Mad Max: Fury Road
The Cast
Courtney Eaton, Cheedo the Fragile
Megan Gale, The Valkyrie
Coco Jack Gillies, Glory the Child
Jennifer Hagan, Miss Giddy
Tom Hardy, Max
Josh Helman, Slit
Nicholas Hoult, Nux
John Howard, The People Eater
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Splendid Angharad
Jon Iles, Ace
iOTA, Coma, the Doof Warrior
Melissa Jaffer, Keeper of the Seeds
Melita Jurisic, Vuvalini
Hugh Keays-Byrne, Immortan Joe
Antoinette Kellerman, Vuvalini
Riley Keough, Capable
Zo Kravitz, Toast the Knowing
Abbey Lee, The Dag
Richard Norton, The Prime Imperator
Chris Patton, Morsov
Joy Smithers, Vuvalini
Charlize Theron, Furiosa
The Crew
Eugene Arendsen, stunt driver
Jenny Beavan, costume designer
Eric Blakeney, writer
Steve Bland, adviser
Jasin Boland, still photographer
Matt Boug, bike cosmetics and salvage artist
David Burr, director of photography, second unit
Tom Clapham, production runner
Chris deFaria, executive producer
James Doherty, unit assistant
Henry Dray, transport manager
Eve Ensler, consultant
Eugene Fillios, trailer editor
Mark Gatt, steelworker
Sean Genders, senior prosthetic artist
Colin Gibson, production designer
Robyn Glaser, second assistant director, action unit
Mark Goellnicht, camera operator
Dayna Grant, stunt performer
Scotty Gregory, stunt driver
Todd Matthew Grossman, audition camera
Dane Hallett, key prop maker
Richard Hobbs, art director
Shira Hockman, art director
Tom Holkenborg, score
Dean Hood, unit production manager
Natascha Hopkins, stunt performer
Petrina Hull, production and development executive
Alison Ingram, visual effects coordinator
Andrew Jackson, visual effects supervisor
Chris Jenkins, rerecording mixer
Belinda Johns, assistant to George Miller
Andrew AJ Johnson, camera operator
Shane Kavanagh, extra
Lora Kennedy, casting
Ronna Kress, casting
Adam Kuiper, key grip
Nico Lathouris, writer
Jacinta Leong, art director
Mark Mangini, sound editor
Kelly Marcel, writer
Brendan McCarthy, writer
Samantha McGrady, key second assistant director
Michael Mekash, makeup
Victoria Mielewska, dialect coach
Doug Mitchell, producer
Anthony Natoli, engineer
Mark Natoli, panel beater
James Nicholas, assistant
Guy Norris, second unit director/stunts
Harlan Norris, stunt performer
Harrison Norris, stunt performer
Chris OHara, on-set second assistant director
Ryan Osmond, additional assistant director, production assistant
Peter Pound, principal vehicle designer and storyboard artist
Massey Rafani, marketing
Tim Ridge, EPK, director (The Madness of Max)
Michele Robertson, awards publicist
Mick Roughan, stunt rigger
Ricky Schamburg, first assistant camera
John Seale, director of photography
Georgina Selby, script supervisor, action unit
Mark Sexton, lead storyboard artist
Zeb Simpson, video assist operator
Margaret Sixel, editor
Iain Smith, producer
Brendan Smithers, construction manager
Ben Smith-Petersen, stunt performer
Matt Taylor, stunt driver
Lisa Thompson, set decorator
Matt Town, postproduction supervisor
Nadia Townsend, assistant dramaturg
Michael Ulman, salvage artist
Tate Van Oudtshoorn, set dresser
Courtenay Valenti, executive producer
Lesley Vanderwalt, hair and makeup designer
P. J. Voeten, producer, first assistant director
Michael Wannenmacher, production assistant
Kento Watanabe, visual effects editor
Cory Watson, director (Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road)
David White, sound designer
Andy Williams, special effects supervisor
Stuart Williamson, stunt performer
Shyam Toast Yadav, VFX data wrangler
J. Houston Yang, marketing
The Rest
James Cameron, director (Aliens)
Scott Carlin, former EVP at Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
Justin Chang, film critic at the Los Angeles Times
Nia DaCosta, director (Candyman)
Manohla Dargis, film critic at the New York Times
Gregory Ellwood, journalist at The Playlist
Scott Feinberg, awards columnist at The Hollywood Reporter
Gal Gadot, actress
Pete Hammond, awards columnist at Deadline
Karen Han, journalist at Slate
Ron Hayes, former senior vice president of Warner Bros. toy division
John Horn, journalist
Joshua Horowitz, journalist at MTV News
Patty Jenkins, director (Wonder Woman)
Dave Karger, TCM host and Oscar pundit for Today
Richard Lawson, film critic at Vanity Fair
Gregg Maday, former senior vice president at Warner Bros. Television
Drew McWeeny, writer at Formerly Dangerous
Amy Nicholson, host, The Canon
Patton Oswalt, actor
Hutch Parker, former president of production at 20th Century Fox
Gina Prince-Bythewood, director (The Old Guard)
Peter Ramsey, director (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
Dan Romanelli, former chairman of Warner Consumer Products
David Sims, journalist at The Atlantic
Kris Tapley, former awards editor at Variety
Anya Taylor-Joy, actress
Anne Thompson, editor-at-large at Indiewire
Alison Willmore, film critic at New York magazine
Edgar Wright, director (Last Night in Soho)
Jen Yamato, journalist at the Los Angeles Times
Ziwe, comedian
F or 55 million years, the Namib Desert has been where things go to die. Thought to be the oldest desert on the planet, its a barren wasteland almost completely devoid of human life, a place where the coastline is still studded with the remains of a thousand shipwrecks.
And in September 2012, it was where Mad Max: Fury Road would crash and burn.
Nearly ten thousand miles separate that south African desert from Los Angeles, but midway through Fury Roads very long 2012 shoot, plenty of stories about the troubled production had already made their way back to the Hollywood rumor mill. Was it true that the film was wildly behind schedule and over budget because its mercurial lead, Tom Hardy, often failed to show up to set? Had a massive blowup between Hardy and his costar, Charlize Theron, required an outside intervention just so the film wouldnt collapse?
And what the hell was George Miller making, anyway? Though the director had spent months filming Fury Road in Namibia, the footage hed sent back to Warner Bros. left many executives freaked out. The dialogue sounded incomprehensible, the action scenes appeared astonishingly dangerous, and since Miller wasnt working from a traditional screenplayinstead, in an unprecedented move, he had plotted the film out solely through storyboardsstudio executives worried that