George Miller puts it plainly: “When someone is directing a film, they’re thinking about it every waking hour, and even processing it in their dreams. The problem is, if you’re a studio executive, you tend to think about it for 10 minutes on a Wednesday.”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/movies/mad-max-fury-road-oral-history.html …
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“A couple people at the studio said, ‘Oh, we've got to drop the Doof Warrior.” I said, ‘No no, it's way too early to even think of that.’” Once the Junkie XL score was added to the cut, Miller’s instincts proved correct: “He became one of the most popular characters in the film.”
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And the Doof Warrior’s flame-spewing guitar really worked! (Eventually.) Here’s a funny story from FURY ROAD production designer Colin Gibson about itpic.twitter.com/4Np4ggW5x2
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The actresses cast as the Wives in FURY ROAD were auditioned with script pages from ERIN BROCKOVICH, NETWORK, and MONTY PYTHON, and sometimes, they did gender-bending character exercises. Here’s how it went for Zoe Kravitz when she auditioned opposite Jeremy Renner (!!) as Maxpic.twitter.com/HfxdaXWtiJ
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has starred in only two films: Michael Bay’s 3rd TRANSFORMERS movie, and FURY ROAD. Here’s how she felt at the beginning of FURY ROAD (with a little bit of Bay shade), and how she felt afterpic.twitter.com/HMnMzX3Rtz
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Zoe Kravitz felt the same way after FURY ROAD was done, she told me: “I don’t think we realized until it was almost over how far down the rabbit hole we had all gone. Just returning to normal life after was bizarre. None of us knew how to do it.”
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The FURY ROAD Wives all had pretty crazy stories from the set. Here’s one from actress Courtney Eaton:pic.twitter.com/kVlvQhRaOG
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FURY ROAD editor Margaret Sixel said cutting together Tom Hardy’s performance posed some unique challengespic.twitter.com/Fl1Zgosi02
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Oh, and I really liked this FURY ROAD end-of-production story from iOTA, who played the Doof Warriorpic.twitter.com/uYZEGlAfVZ
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And he ended up marrying one of the wives (Riley Keough), no??
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