A popular theory among the much-heated lore of 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is that director George Miller, along with co-writers Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris, first approached the movie without a script.
In a series of recent tweets over the past week, McCarthy shut down the rumor by calling it “made-up bollocks,” and now director Miller has separately confirmed to IndieWire that there was most certainly a script.“I’m not sure how the notion that Fury Road had no script came about.
I suppose it’s because of the room lined with storyboards,” Miller said via email, referring to an image of 3,500 storyboards lining the walls of “the ‘Mad Max’ room” that’s been circulated online.
“Of course there was a script! How else could we have presented the project to a studio, cast and crew to elicit their interest?”Yet McCarthy, in his tweets, seemed to attribute the rumor to Miler.
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