Mad Max: Fury Road - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[francisco]

The flame-shooting guitarist is Australian artist/musician Sean Hape, better known as Iota. In an interview on Vice (2013), he said the guitar weighed 132 pounds and shot real gas-powered flames, which he controlled using the whammy bar.

[tom]

Max's sawed-off shotgun misfires when he tries to shoot off Nux's wrist, as it did in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981). (When Furiosa pulls the trigger, it doesn't misfire, as there was only one live cartridge in the gun, as Nux had fired off the other one earlier).

[lynn]

The film used three identical War Rigs, the large main truck in the film. They were based on a Czechoslovakian all-wheel drive military vehicle.

[francisco]

The jacket worn by Tom Hardy is a replica of the one worn by Mel Gibson in the last two movies of the original trilogy. The original Gibson jacket was found in storage at Kennedy-Miller and copied heavily.

[russell]

As in the previous movies in this franchise, many characters' names are never said in full, or at all on-screen, and are only provided in the credits.

[carla]

The cast and crew had to endure extreme heat while filming in Namibia.

[ruby]

The second sequel to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture without any of its predecessors being nominated, the first being Toy Story 3 (2010).

[francisco]

Tom Hardy had a dog named Max that was given to him when he was a teenager, he passed away in 2011. The dog's name was an honor to Mad Max (1979). Years later, Hardy played the title character in Mad Max: Fury Road.

[beth]

On July 12th 2017, Charlize Theron announced in an interview that George Miller is developing the first Mad Max spin-off film, adding that it would be a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and that it focused on her character Furiosa.

[terry]

Regarding the look of the film, director George Miller laid down two stipulations for the production to follow. Firstly, the cinematography would be as colorful as possible in order to differentiate the film from other post-apocalyptic movies, which typically have bleak de-saturated colors. During pre-production the initial concept was for a black and white film. However, producers strongly advised against this as they believed it would deter audiences. Secondly, the art direction would be as beautiful as possible as Miller reasoned that people living in the post-apocalypse would try to find whatever scraps of beauty they could in their meager environment.

[chris]

Lord Humungus, the main antagonist of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Emperor Palpatine, antagonist of the Star Wars series, are considered strong influences behind Immortan Joe. Like Palpatine, Immortan Joe is a disfigured tyrant, and like Lord Humungus, Immortan Joe conceals his deformed face behind a mask.

[wesley]

Co-writer Brendan McCarthy designed many of the new characters and vehicles.

[frederick]

Immortan Joe's war club actually belonged to Hugh Keays-Byrne's mother-in-law. It was given to her during World War II. After she died, it was laying around, and Hugh thought it was interesting, so he took it.

[maureen]

Weta Digital was originally involved with the film when it was scheduled for a 2012 release. The company was to be handling visual effects, conceptual designs, specialty make-up effects, and costume designs until production was postponed from its November 2010 start date.

[cameron]

At the final vehicle battle, one of Immortan Joe's henchmen scares Furiosa with the exact same hiss as the Toecutter in Mad Max (1979).

[sara]

In one of the scenes, the War Rig has a collision with a black Mack tractor unit. The same style of Mack tractor unit was featured in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) to pull the fuel tanker trailer.

[richard]

The film contains about 2,700 cuts of its entire running length, which is equivalent to 22.5 cuts per minute compared to Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)'s 1,200 cuts of its 90-minute running time equivalent to 13.33 cuts per minute.

[javier]

George Miller has written a background story for The Doof Warrior, the heavy metal musician, played by Australian singer/songwriter Sean Hape (a.k.a. Iota), playing the flame-shooting electric guitar on The Doof Wagon.

[ethel]

Near the movie's end, Max (Tom Hardy) tells the unconscious Furiosa, 'My name is Max.' At the same time, he performs some facial tics (eyebrow raise, twitches, squints). This is a nod to Mel Gibson's style of acting, who used this technique to communicate a crazed/manic look.