‘A fetish party in the desert’: the making of Mad Max: Fury Road

It is hailed as one of the greatest action movies ever, but making Mad Max: Fury Road was far from easy.

Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, director George Miller and a huge cast of creatives recall what went down in the Namib desertPlenty of movies claim to be mad and filled with fury, taking it to the max.

Very few make good on that promise.

Like everyone else at the time, my gob got smacked and stayed smacked by George Miller’s deranged post-apocalyptic convoy-chase action spectacular Mad Max: Fury Road.

It was so over the top that the top was a distant memory, far beneath my feet.This was a 2015 revival of Miller’s 70s/80s punk-western franchise Mad Max, taking it to a new level of strangeness and delirium.

Tom Hardy plays Max Rockatansky, survivor of a global catastrophe that has made oil and water rare commodities: he

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