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It is often an agreement between veteran directors that the usage of CGI should be kept to a minimum when creating cinematic movies. Director George Miller who directed bothFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagaand the 1982 filmMad Max 2orThe Road Warrior,seems to agree with these statements.
Relying mostly on stunt people and real explosions for his movies, Miller is known for the iconicMad Maxfranchise. In an interview, the director revealed that if the 1980s had the technology of today, his stuntmen and women would have been much safer.
George Miller’sMad MaxTeam Would Have Been Much Safer
It is no secret that veteran director George Miller and veteran actor Mel Gibson started with humble beginnings during the production ofMad Max.Originally released in 1979, the film received critical success and soon, a sequel was announced.
Mad Max [Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures]The sequel, titledMad Max 2(released asThe Road Warriorin the U.S.) was way ahead of its time in terms of stunt scenes. Having stuntmen perform these death-defying stunts and shooting them on a camera was quite difficult back in the 1980s since there wasn’t such strong CGI at that time. With the upcoming release of George Miller’sFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga,the director sat down for a chat withComicbook.comfor an interview.
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During their chat, the interviewer asked the director what would have happened if they had the modern technology of CGI back in the 1980s. Here’s what Miller had for a fun reply: –
“Look. I hadn’t thought about it but the one thing I can say… they [stuntmen and actors] would have been safer. Yeah, that’s definitely—and the other thing I can say is that the cameras are way more edgier that you can do things with cameras now and put them in places that you couldn’t before”
All jokes aside, the crew being safe on the sets of a George Miller film is actually based on an accident that happened when they were shootingMad Max 2.With stuntmen, racing, and, filming the iconic landscape, George Miller heard the sound of a femur bone breaking and it was his stuntman who had fallen!
George Miller Saw His Stuntman Break A Femur Bone!
It was 1981 when George Miller released the sequel toMad MaxtitledMad Max 2orThe Road Warrior.Having some iconic stunts in the film, stuntman Guy Norris had quite a hurtful experience while filming one of the stunts.
In one of the scenes, a biker hits a totaled car, flies off the bike, and lands towards the camera. This stunt wasn’t planned at all and it was stuntman Guy Norris who had a real accident while on the sets of that film. While chasing on his bike, Norris hit the totaled car and it was seen that his leg was bent in an unnatural shape. Hitting the car and flying off his bike, Norris ended up in a real accident and broke his femur bone.
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Luckily directorGeorge Milleris a qualified medical doctor and immediately rushed to help Norris. The cherry on top is thatMad Max 2was Guy Norris’ first film! On the other hand, the world is waiting eagerly for the release ofFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga.
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Acting as a prequel to Miller’s 2015 filmMad Max: Fury Road,the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy in the lead role alongside Chris Hemsworth as the villain.Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagais slated for a release date of 24 July 2025 in theaters across the U.S.
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
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