<ul class="summary-list"><li>Australian actor <keyword id="2853967" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hugh-Keays-Byrne">Hugh Keays-Byrne</keyword>, who is best known for his work in two "<keyword id="239186" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mad-Max">Mad Max</keyword>" movies, died on Tuesday, his agent confirmed to Insider.</li><li>He played villain Toecutter in the first "Mad Max" movie and then was cast as Immortan Joe in "<keyword id="1458513" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mad-Max-Fury-Road">Mad Max: Fury Road</keyword>."</li><li>Insider spoke to Keays-Byrne about playing both roles back in 2015.</li></ul><p>It wasn't enough for Australian-raised actor Hugh Keays-Byrne to have one legendary character on his resume, he had to go and create another.</p><p>Behind the fiberglass body armor, long white hair, and sinister oxygen mask of villain Immortan Joe in "Mad Max: Fury Road" is the man who, 36 years earlier, terrorized the Australian plains as the memorable Toecutter in the original "Mad Max."</p><p>Keays-Byrne, who died at the age of 73 on Tuesday, according to his agent, started his career as a trained theater actor, who was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company for numerous years. But in 1979, he gained international acclaim in the low-budget apocalyptic cult hit "Mad Max," starring a then-unknown Mel Gibson.</p><div type="image" title="toecutter" height="480" width="1172" msid="79538834" hostid="261"></div>"I was a young actor trying to do films and suddenly I realized, 'God, people are talking about this film,'" Keays-Byrne told Business Insider back in 2015. "A friend of mine phoned from Japan and said, 'Hugh, you're on television every 10 minutes over here.'"<p>Though Keays-Byrne would go on to act in numerous movies and TV shows for decades following "Mad Max," he would always be known as Toecutter. Even to this day he gets stopped in the grocery store by fans, he said then.</p><p>Then, eight years ago, Keays-Byrne got a call from "Mad Max" director George Miller about the opportunity to come on "Fury Road."</p><p>"I thought, didn't Toecutter drive in front of a moving truck and die?"</p><p>He did.</p><div type="image" title="Immortan Joe, Mad Max" height="763" width="1906" msid="79538835" hostid="261"></div>Instead, Miller wanted him to play another villain, Immortan Joe, the leader of a post-apocalyptic village in which he rules by limiting the water supply and using beautiful women to birth his followers, coined "War Boys."<p>This time things were different. Much of that was because of the hour-long hair and makeup routine he underwent to become unrecognizable every day before shooting.</p><p>Keays-Byrne said it took a few days to get comfortable on a big budget Hollywood set.</p><p>"This film took me into an area of technology that I'd never been anywhere near before, it was a bit scary," he said.</p><p>Since a mask covered his face throughout the whole production, he was required to do his dialogue in post production months later.</p><p>"How does one judge one's performance?" Keays-Byrne wondered. "But George kept me relaxed. I had an ear piece and he'd speak to me [during scenes] from time to time, which I found reassuring." </p><div type="image" title="Hugh Keays Byrne Mark Cullivan Getty" height="1653" width="2204" msid="79538836" hostid="261"></div>It's hard for Keays-Byrne to pinpoint aspects of Immortan Joe that originated from him, as he spent years talking to Miller and others on the production about the character before they began shooting. However, there is one piece of his character he can unequivocally say came from him.<p>"Immortan Joe has a war club and that was my mother-in-law's," he said. "It was given to her during the second World War. After she died, it was laying around and I thought, <em>Oh, that's an interesting thing</em>."</p><p>Here's a picture of Immortan Joe holding the club on set.</p><div type="image" title="Hugh Keays Byrne YouTube final" height="1080" width="742" msid="79538837" hostid="261"></div><p>In fact, the giant axe Toecutter used in "Mad Max" was also Keays-Byrne's contribution. "A friend of mine had given it to me and I thought it had a look about it," he revealed.</p><p>Keays-Byrne loved the experience of doing a movie like "Fury Road" and hopes to do another one on that scale again, but he admits what he's really excited about is watching the film with the actors who were members of Toecutter's gang in "Mad Max."</p><p>"Quite a few of those guys are still dear friends of mine," he said. "We will indeed all go see 'Fury Road' together."</p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hEJnMQG9ev8" frameborder="0"></iframe>

How Hugh Keays-Byrne ended up playing 2 different villains in the 'Mad Max' franchise 36 years apart

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Anya Taylor-Joy said she felt isolated while filming "Furiosa" but won't say why.</li><li>"I've never been more alone than making that movie," she said.</li></ul><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anya-taylor-joy-speaking-spanish-english-school-of-rock-2023-4">Anya Taylor-Joy</a> says she felt isolated while filming George Miller's "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," but won't reveal why.</p><p>The star plays the younger version of Charlize Theron's "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mad-max-stars-who-played-marvel-dc-characters-2022-12">Mad Max: Fury Road</a>" character, Imperator Furiosa. In Miller's beloved vision of the post-apocalypse, Furiosa survived by working for a ruthless warlord, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne).</p><p>The 2024 prequel explores Furiosa's backstory before she met Max Rockatansky (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/patrick-stewart-tom-hardy-star-trek-cast-trailer-girlfriend-2023-10">Tom Hardy</a>) and led a rebellion against Joe.</p><p>It's clear that the four-month shoot in Australia was hard on Taylor-Joy. In an interview with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/movies/anya-taylor-joy-furiosa.html?">The New York Times'</a> Kyle Buchanan, "The Witch" and "The Menu" star recalled her experience.</p><p>"I've never been more alone than making that movie," Taylor-Joy said. "I don't want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard."</p><p>Sensing that he was "skirting a sensitive issue," Buchanan asked her why she felt that way, but Taylor-Joy wouldn't explain. </p><p>"Next question, sorry," she said. "Talk to me in 20 years." Buchanan described Taylor-Joy as having "a faraway look in her eyes, as if a part of her had been left behind in that wasteland."</p><p>Taylor-Joy later noted that she cried watching an early cut of the film. "Two minutes in and I'm sobbing," Taylor-Joy said. She hinted at the root of her emotion, saying, "I adored a person that I could not protect. There were forces greater than me."</p><p>It's not the first time that actors have been put through the physical and emotional wringer while making a "Mad Max" movie.</p><p>Theron and Tom Hardy infamously clashed while making "Fury Road," with Theron even asking for on-set protection from her costar after one incident.</p><p>Buchanan's book "Blood, Sweat, and Chrome," about the 2015 film, recounts a major argument between the two stars that occurred after Hardy was three hours late to set, per <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/mad-max-fury-road-tom-hardy-charlize-theron-excerpt">Vanity Fair</a>.</p><p>Camera operator Mark Goellnicht recalled: "She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, 'Fine the fucking cunt a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he's held up this crew,' and 'How disrespectful you are!'"</p><p>Theron herself also weighed in, saying, "It got to a place where it was kind of out of hand, and there was a sense that maybe sending a woman producer down could maybe equalize some of it, because I didn't feel safe."</p><p>But when it comes to "Furiosa," Taylor-Joy still cherishes her time on the unique shoot.</p><p>"I will never regret this experience, on so many different levels, but it's a very particular story to have," she explained. "There's not everyone in the world that has made a 'Mad Max' movie, and I swear to God, everyone that I've met that has, there's a look in our eyes: We know. There's an immediate kinship of like, 'OK, hey, I see you.'"</p>

Anya Taylor-Joy won't reveal why she felt extremely isolated while filming 'Furiosa': 'Talk to me in 20 years'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Riley Keough said her parents were close friends with Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet.</li><li>The "Daisy Jones &amp; The Six" star said she and Zoë Kravitz were "breastfed" next to each other.</li></ul><p>At the end of 2022, the internet erupted into a debate <a href="https://www.insider.com/9-nepo-babies-that-raise-the-profiles-of-their-parents-2022-12">over nepo babies and success</a> in Hollywood and beyond. While the conversation has died down (for now) some stars, like <a href="https://www.insider.com/daisy-jones-and-the-six-facts-about-star-riley-keough-2023-3">Riley Keough</a>, are embracing their nepo baby status. </p><p>In fact, the "Daisy Jones &amp; The Six" star recently revealed that she was raised with another well-known nepo baby: Zoë Kravitz. </p><p>Keough discussed her lifelong friendship with "The Batman" star with Vanity Fair after appearing on the cover of the September 2023 issue, in which she also described <a href="https://www.insider.com/riley-keough-michael-jackson-neverland-home-elvis-presley-graceland-museum-2023-8">Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch as a "real home" for her</a>.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv5D09dtBVp/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); 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And like, our parents breastfed us next to each other," she explained.</p><p>Keough said that she lost touch with Kravitz for a few years, but they reconnected as teenagers when they both attended the same party.</p><p>"Yeah, so we met a long time ago, but we re-met when I was probably 17," she said. "I think it was a house party in LA. We had a lot of mutual friends and we just became very good friends."</p><p>Keough called Kravitz a "lifelong friend," and also noted that they later starred in George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" together in 2015.</p><p>They played a pair of slave wives, who escape from the villain, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). </p>

Riley Keough says she and Zoë Kravitz were breastfed next to each other as babies: 'We would hang out as nepo babies, literally'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Hardy made Theron wait three hours to film a scene, according to a new book on the "Mad Max" reboot.</li><li>A camera operator said Theron shouted curses at Hardy for being late.</li></ul><p>Both <keyword id="13239484" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="charlize-theron" source="Orion">Charlize Theron</keyword> and <keyword id="13147342" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tom-hardy" source="Orion">Tom Hardy</keyword> got candid about <a href="https://www.insider.com/mad-max-fury-road-charlize-theron-and-tom-hardy-2017-6">the feud the two had on the set</a> of the 2015 hit movie "<keyword id="12087340" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mad-max-fury-road" source="Orion">Mad Max: Fury Road</keyword>" in the new book, "<a href="https://www.insider.com/tom-hardy-spat-armie-hammer-mad-max-fury-road-book-2022-2">Blood, Sweat &amp; Chrome: The Wild and True Story of 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'"</a></p><p>In an excerpt from the book, written by a New York Times pop-culture reporter, Kyle Buchanan and published by <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/mad-max-fury-road-tom-hardy-charlize-theron-excerpt">Vanity Fair</a> on Tuesday, both actors and crew members who were witnesses to the spat revealed the moment when things boiled over.</p><p>"I remember vividly the day," Mark Goellnicht, a camera operator, said in the book. "The call on set was eight o'clock. Charlize got there right at eight o'clock, sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom's never going to be there at eight even though they made a special request for him to be there on time."</p><div type="image" title="charlize theron mad max" height="721" width="1280" msid="89777677" hostid="261"></div><p>In the movie, Theron plays Imperator Furiosa, who uses a giant truck known as the "War Rig" to save a group of young women from the clutches of the villain Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and is now on the run. Hardy plays Max, a loner who comes across Furiosa and the women and decides to help them.</p><p>Hardy "was notorious for never being on time in the morning," Goellnicht said. "If the call time was in the morning, forget it — he didn't show up."</p><p>Hours passed, and Hardy didn't show up. Witnesses said Theron didn't even get out of the truck to use the bathroom. Some felt Hardy was purposely showing up late as a power play because he knew it would make Theron mad.</p><p>"Eleven o'clock. She's now in the War Rig, sitting there with her makeup on and a full costume for three hours," Goellnicht said. "Tom turns up, and he walks casually across the desert. She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, 'Fine the fucking cunt a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he's held up this crew,' and 'How disrespectful you are!' She was right. Full rant."</p><div type="image" title="tom hardy mad max" height="998" width="1500" msid="89777680" hostid="261"></div><p>Goellnicht said he believed despite it being windy that day, Theron was screaming so loudly that Hardly likely heard what she said.</p><p>"He charged up to her up and went, 'What did you say to me?'" Goellnicht said.</p><p>"He was quite aggressive," Goellnicht continued. "She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point, because then she said, 'I want someone as protection.' She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time."</p><p>For the rest of filming, the producer Denise Di Novi shadowed Theron, according to the book.</p><p>"It got to a place where it was kind of out of hand, and there was a sense that maybe sending a woman producer down could maybe equalize some of it, because I didn't feel safe," Theron said.</p><p>"In hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways," Hardy said in the book. "The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times. What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced partner in me. That's something that can't be faked. I'd like to think that now that I'm older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion."</p><div type="image" title="Tom Hardy entends hand to Charlize Theron" height="1200" width="1600" msid="89777682" hostid="261"></div><p>But the book states that as filming went on in the desert, Hardy softened, and he and Theron worked better together.</p><p>"That scene where you see Tom with Charlize on the bike and all the Vuvalini and the Wives behind, intermingled — that scene was probably the biggest change in seeing Tom really soften to Charlize in real life," Goellnicht said. "We were all unprepared for how he performed that, and then I walked off and Charlize was walking back, and I said, 'Geez, Charlize, that was amazing. Did a light switch go off? He was great.' She was quite taken aback by it, too."</p><p>"He was a different person by the end," Goellnicht continued. "A lot easier to deal with, a lot more cooperative, more compassionate."</p><p>"<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Chrome-Wild-Story/dp/0063084341">Blood, Sweat &amp; Chrome: The Wild and True Story of 'Mad Max: Fury Road</a>'" is available now for purchase.</p>

Charlize Theron says she 'didn't feel safe' after confrontation with Tom Hardy on 'Mad Max: Fury Road' set, according to new book

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550eb83ecad0467082ae3b2-1200-800/hugh keays-byrne.jpg" border="0" alt="hugh keays byrne"><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros./YouTube</span></p><p class="caption">Actor Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immorten Joe (L) in "Mad Max: Fury Road" and Toecutter in "Mad Max."</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It wasn't enough for Australian-raised actor Hugh Keays-Byrne to have one legendary character on his resume, he had to go and create another.</span></p><p>Behind the fiberglass body armor, long white hair, and sinister oxygen mask of villain Immortal Joe in "Mad Max: Fury Road" is the man who, 36 years earlier, terrorized the Australian plains as the memorable Toecutter in the original "Mad Max."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550eef76bb3f7bc1d8539cf-1172-480/toecutter.jpg" border="0" alt="toecutter" style="color: #000000;"><p class="source"><span>YouTube/Warner Bros.</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Keays-Byrne, 67, started his career as a trained theater actor who was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company for numerous years. But in 1979 he gained international acclaim in the low-budget apocalyptic cult hit "Mad Max," starring a then unknown Mel Gibson.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"I was a young actor trying to do films and suddenly I realized, 'God, people are talking about this film,'" Keays-Byrne told Business Insider. "A friend of mine phoned from Japan and said, 'Hugh, you're on television every 10 minutes over here.'"</span></span></p><p>Though Keays-Byrne would go on to act in numerous movies and TV shows for decades following "Mad Max," he would always be known as Toecutter. Even to this day he gets stopped in the grocery store by fans.</p><p>Then, eight years ago, Keays-Byrne got a call from "Mad Max" director George Miller about the opportunity to come on "Fury Road."</p><p>"I thought, didn't Toecutter drive in front of a moving truck and die?"</p><p>He did.</p><p>Instead, Miller wanted him to play another villain, Immorten Joe, the leader of a post-apocalyptic village in which he rules by limiting the water supply and using beautiful women to birth his followers, coined "War Boys."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Warner Bros./" Mad="" Max:="" Fury="" Road="" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550eb3869bedd804a02b68f-960/mmfr-trl-87286.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550eb3869bedd804a02b68f-1200-522/mmfr-trl-87286.jpg" border="0" alt="MMFR TRL 87286" /></a><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros./"Mad Max: Fury Road"</span></p></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This time things were different. Much of that was because of the hour-long hair and makeup routine he underwent to become unrecognizable every day before shooting.</span></p><p>Keays-Byrne said it took a few days to get comfortable on a big budget Hollywood set.</p><p>"This film took me into an area of technology that I'd never been anywhere near before, it was a bit scary," he said. "How does one judge one's performance?" he wondered. Since a mask covered his face throughout the whole production, he was required to do his dialogue in post production months later. "But George kept me relaxed. I had an ear piece and he'd speak to me [during scenes] from time to time, which I found reassuring," Keays-Byrne said.</p><p>It's hard for Keays-Byrne to pinpoint aspects of Immorten Joe that originated from him, as he spent years talking to Miller and others on the production about the character before they began shooting. However, there is one piece of his character he can unequivocally say came from him.</p><p>"Immorten Joe has a war club, and that was my mother-in-law's," he said. "It was given to her during the second World War. After she died it was laying around and I thought, oh, that's an interesting thing."</p><p>Here's a picture of Immorten Joe holding the club on set.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550eb076da81181627dced7-742-1080/hugh keays-byrne youtube final.jpg" border="0" alt="Hugh Keays Byrne YouTube final"><p class="source"><span>YouTube</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In fact, the giant axe Toecutter used in "Mad Max" was also Keays-Byrne's contribution. "A friend of mine had given it to me and I thought it had a look about it."</span></p><p>Keays-Byrne loved the experience of doing a movie like "Fury Road" and hopes to do another one on that scale again, but he admits what he's really excited about is watching the film with the actors who were members of Toecutter's gang in "Mad Max."</p><p>"Quite a few of those guys are still dear friends of mine," he said. 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How this actor ended up playing 2 different villains in the 'Mad Max' franchise 36 years apart

<p> </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56d3b40e2e526556008ba233-1200/mad max fury road.jpg" alt="mad max fury road" data-mce-source="Jasin Boland/Warner Bros." /><p class="source"><span>Jasin Boland/Warner Bros.</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>If you can't get enough of "Mad Max: Fury Road," you're in luck. Warner Bros. announced Wednesday that not one, but two new Blu-ray and DVD collections will be out this December just in time for the holidays, the "Mad Max High Octane Collection" and "Mad Max: Fury Road Two Film Collection."</p><p>While the first collection includes all four films from the "Mad Max" series, including "Fury Road," what we're really excited about is that both collections will include "Mad Max: Fury Road 'Black &amp; Chrome' Edition."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57d9e2eedd08956f618b45e9-2400/mad-max-collections.jpg" alt="mad max collections" data-mce-source="Warner Bros. Home Entertainment" /><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros. Home Entertainment</span></p><p class="caption">Here are the two collections side by side.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>If you're not familiar with "Black &amp; Chrome" and are a "Mad Max" and/or "Fury Road" fan, this is the version of the film you want to watch. Director George Miller told the LA Times in January 2016 this <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-george-miller-mad-max-20160121-story.html">black-and-white release of the film is his preferred version of the blockbuster</a>. </p><p>"The best version of 'Fury Road' was what we called a 'slash dupe': a cheap, black-and-white version of the movie for the composter. Something about it seemed more authentic and elemental," said Miller. "So I asked Eric Whipp, the ['Fury Road'] colorist, 'Can I see some scenes in black and white with quite a bit of contrast?' They looked great."</p><p><strong>Why aren't we getting the "Black &amp; Chrome" version until now?</strong></p><p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57d9e2eedd08956f618b45ea-1280/charlizemadmax.jpg" alt="charlize theron mad max" data-mce-source="Warner Bros." /><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros.</span></p><p class="caption">Charlize Theron killing it as Furiosa.</p></div><p></p></div></div></strong></p><p>According to Miller, there "wasn't enough room" on the disc in the original Blu-ray and DVD release to include it. I'm guessing Warner Bros. didn't want to include another disc with the release in order to put it out later for another go around.</p><p>"So I said to the guys at Warners, 'Can we put a black-and-white version on the DVD?' There wasn't enough room. [It'll end up] on another version with commentary and other features," Miller said.</p><p>Fans were so thirsty for the black-and-white edition though that a version <a href="http://screencrush.com/mad-max-fury-road-black-white/">popped up on Vimeo at one point</a>. When that was pulled from the internet, a fan trailer for the black-and-white version <a href="https://vimeo.com/137507326">made its way online</a>.</p><p>The "Mad Max High Octane Collection" will be available for Blu-ray ($79.99) and DVD ($54.97). It will include all four films along with five hours of bonus content. A 4K-Ultra HD version and digital copy will also be included. Fans can also purchase "Mad Max: Fury Road 'Black &amp; Chrome' Edition" separately ($29.98). That collection will include the theatrical version of the film along with an introduction from Miller himself.</p><p>Here's the full list of special features and additions for both collections from Warner Bros.:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><strong>High Octane Collection Special Features and Additions:</strong></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>§</span><span>  </span><span><strong><em>NEW!</em></strong><em> *Fury Road "Black &amp; Chrome" Edition</em> - Witness the surreal black and white version of mastermind George Miller's <em>Fury Road</em>.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>§</span><span>  </span><span><strong><em>NEW!</em></strong><em> *George Miller Introduction to the Mad Max Fury Road: Black and Chrome Edition</em> - Special introductory piece by George Miller describing his vision.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>§</span><span>  </span><span><strong><em>NEW!</em></strong><em> Road War</em> - In 1982, the world was blindsided by George Miller's masterpiece of apocalyptic destruction: <em>The Road Warrior.  </em>For the first time ever George Miller, Terry Hayes and star Mel Gibson tell the story of the car-crushing production that redefined action cinema forever.<strong>  </strong></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>§</span><span>  </span><span><em>Madness of Max</em> - The previously released <em>Mad Max</em> (1979) documentary is a feature-length documentary on the making of arguably the most influential movie of the past thirty years. With over forty cast-and-crew interviews, hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and never-before-seen film footage of the shoot, this is, without a doubt, the last word on <em>Mad Max </em>(1979). Interviews include: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward, Joanne Samuel, David Eggby, Jon Dowding and many more. From the Producers to the Bike Designers to the Traffic Stoppers, this is the story of how <em>Mad Max</em> was made.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Mad Max: Fury Road Two Film Collection</em></strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span><strong>Special Features and Additions:</strong></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>§</span><span>  </span><span><strong><em>NEW!</em></strong><em> *George Miller Introduction to the Mad Max Fury Road: Black and Chrome Edition</em> - Special introductory piece by George Miller describing his vision.</span></p><p>Both will be available from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment December 6. Warner Bros. noted that some digital retailers may sell the "Black and Chrome" Edition separately as a standalone item if you don't want to purchase the entire collection.</p><p>Until December, you can check out some of the cool stunts from the movie. <a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/mad-max-fury-road-looks-without-cgi-2016-9">A compilation recently made its way online</a>.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mad-max-meets-burning-man-desert-party-2016-7">This apocalypse party in the desert is a cross between Mad Max and Burning Man</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="A3NHZ5NDE6L_EI7hjhS2HlWd8OtSUPlE" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'A3NHZ5NDE6L_EI7hjhS2HlWd8OtSUPlE',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

You'll finally be able to buy 'the best version' of 'Mad Max: Fury Road'

<p><span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><span><span data-post-image="" class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550bfcaeab8ea5664915edb-1200-800/frd-ds-00668.jpg" border="0" alt="FRD DS 00668.JPG"><span class="source"><span>Jasin Boland/Warner Bros./"Mad Max: Fury Road"</span></span><span class="caption">Max (Tom Hardy) is back in the wasteland. </span></img></span><p></p></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the time of year when movies with big explosions and little else trumps all, director George Miller's latest film in the Mad Max franchise, "Mad Max: Fury Road," epitomizes the summer movie blockbuster.</span></p>
<p>And we are not complaining.</p>
<p>Decades in the making, "Fury Road" is basically Miller's 1981 "Mad Max" sequel, "The Road Warrior," pumped with supercharged 3D visuals to provide a fun two-hour escapism experience.</p>
<p>The plot is extremely thin, but if you need one …</p>
<p>Tom Hardy plays Max - the original Mad Max, Mel Gibson, left the project in the early 2000s due to his <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/05/09/mad-max-creator-on-why-mel-gibson-was-cut-from-fury-road/">legal trouble</a> - the one-time cop who is now a desperado roaming the post-apocalyptic desert wasteland. He's captured by the "War Boys" of a near-by tribe and after a failed, yet thrilling, attempt to escape, is used as a blood transfusion for one of the "Boys," Nux (Nicholas Hoult), who is on the mend from battle.</p>
<p>While this goes on, the tribe's leader, Immorten Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), an aging tyrant who breaths out of a sinister, teeth-designed oxygen tube, has sent off his War Rig driven by Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) to get the latest shipment of gasoline from the far away refinery. But on the drive there, she suddenly goes rouge and attempts to escape the tribe. Joe sees what she's doing and unleashes the War Boys, including Nux and Max in tow.</p>
<p><span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><span><span data-post-image="" class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550bf92ecad04d3772ae3b1-1200-800/frd-02064r.jpg" border="0" alt="FRD 02064r"><span class="source"><span>Jasin Boland/Warner Bros./"Mad Max: Fury Road"</span></span><span class="caption">Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) planes a daring escape from an evil tyrant.</span></img></span><p></p></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The rest of the film is basically a chase for the War Rig, with Max and Nux soon becoming allies with Furiosa.</span></p>
<p>Very similar to the incredible chase we see in "The Road Warrior," this one is extended to span most of the movie.</p>
<p>And again, there's nothing wrong with that. The cars created for "Fury Road" are visual marvels and the stunts pulled off with them can only be described as thrilling moves you only thought possible back when you played with your Tonka trucks as a kid in the backyard.</p>
<p>And instead of gasoline being what the bad guys want this time the precious cargo are the beautiful five wives (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2142336/?ref_=tt_cl_t6">Riley Keough</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2368789/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">Zoë Kravitz</a>, among them) of Immorten Joe, who are also trying to escape.</p>
<p>If you're familiar with the three previous "Mad Max" films ("Mad Max," "The Road Warrior," "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"), "Fury Road" is incredible fun that is close to two-hours of non-stop action. And this is only elevated by the fact that at the helm of this reboot is Miller, the brainchild of all the movies in the franchise.</p>
<p>But this is also a summer movie for those who don't get a rush from the countless superhero adaptations thrust upon us this time of year.</p>
<p>Rated R (and a hard R at that, with loads of violence and gore), "Fury Road" is perfect counter-programming. There are no witty one-liners from the stars (in fact, Hardy doesn't talk much at all), and no mission to save the universe.</p>
<p>Our "hero," Max, is a troubled soul who's gone through a lot and just trying to survive. Hardy does play him with a bit more sentimentality than Gibson did, but Miller is good at keeping those moments brief.</p>
<p>With the "Mad Max" films Miller always seeps in a bigger meaning. Often it's the world killing itself (like his commentary on our addiction to gasoline in "The Road Warrior"). In "Fury Road," water is what motivates the characters, as Immorten Joe holds it from his tribe, releasing it sparingly only to keep them in line (perhaps playing on our world's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-business-as-usual-will-create-a-thirsty-planet-in-15-years-says-un-2015-3">decrease in water supply</a>). But Miller also explores family. Immorten Joe is determined to get his wives back so he can contine to create his pale War Boys, while Max can't get the memory of his dead child out of his head.</p>
<p><span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><span><span data-post-image="" class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550c63769beddde5f02b68d-1200-500/mad%20max%20wide%20shot%20final.jpg" border="0" alt="mad max wide shot final"><span class="source"><span>YouTube/Warner Bros./"Mad Max: Fury Road"</span></span></img></span><p></p></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And then, perhaps what trumps all, are the striking visuals from longtime cinematographer John Seale ("The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Harry Potter and the Scorcerer's Stone"). If possible, find a huge screen to watch this. The wide shots of the desert, the explosive action sequences and the evening scenes with its cool blue glow, are done with an incredibly talented eye.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is definitely going to be the most beautful-looking film you'll see this summer.</span></p>

'Mad Max: Fury Road' has no plot but it's still incredible

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Jasin Boland/Warner Bros./" Mad="" Max:="" Fury="" Road="" title_caption="You don't want to see these vehicles from " in="" your="" rearview.="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550f54f6bb3f7984d8539ce-960/frd-ds-00253.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550f54f6bb3f7984d8539ce-1200-800/frd-ds-00253.jpg" border="0" alt="FRD DS 00253.JPG" /></a><p class="source"><span>Jasin Boland/Warner Bros./"Mad Max: Fury Road"</span></p><p class="caption">You don't want to see these vehicles from "Mad Max: Fury Road" in your rearview.</p></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Talks of the twisted metal and high octane vehicles that would populate "Mad Max: Fury Road" began when director George Miller showed production designer Colin Gibson three walls filled with storyboards of the film 15 years ago.</span></p><p>"He said, 'One day this could all be yours,'" Gibson recalls to Business Insider of what Miller presented him. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Gibson just didn't realize how far away that "one day" would be.</span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/555235f86da811c961fe49d6-1200-924/mad-max-george-miller-tom-hardy-mel-gibson.jpg" border="0" alt="Mad Max George Miller Tom Hardy Mel Gibson "><p class="source"><span>Kevin Winter/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">"Mad Max" director/writer/producer George Miller with the film's original star, Mel Gibson, and new star Tom Hardy.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Gibson began building the cars to be featured in the film as far back as 2003, when it was originally going to be shot in South Africa with Mel Gibson returning as Max, a loner in a post-apocalyptic world who navigates through the different gasoline-starved tribes in order to survive.</p><p>But the plug was pulled on the film leading up to <a href="http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/george_millers_mad_max_fury_road_faces_another_setback_as_new_shooting_loca">the Iraq War</a>, and the project lingered in development hell until four years ago.</p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The final version is an action-adventure film starring Tom Hardy as Max and Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. Responsible for driving the massive "War Rig" to replenish her village's gasoline needs, Furiosa goes rogue and dashes in the truck to parts unknown in hopes of freedom, picking up Max along the way. The village's evil ruler, Immortal Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) unleashes his "War Boys" and their gonzo fleet of vehicles to hunt them down.<br><br /></br></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550fb62eab8eab95f915ee0-1200-800/frd-ds-00114.jpg" border="0" alt="FRD DS 00114" style="line-height: 1.5em;"><p class="source"><span>Jasin Boland/Warner Bros./"Mad Max: Fury Road"</span></p><p class="caption">The War Boys in hot pursuit.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Built over 11 months before production began in late 2011, the close to 200 vehicles Gibson created range from a sedan with massive metal spikes sticking out of it to a giant truck covered with stereo speakers.</span></p><p><strong>Below, Gibson breaks down some of the most memorable vehicles.</strong></p><p><strong>Interceptor:</strong></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550f621ecad041e502ae3b5-1200-572/madmax_interceptor_final.jpg" border="0" alt="madmax_interceptor_final"><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros.</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The iconic vehicle from the "Mad Max" franchise is Max's 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT. The super-charged car made its first appearance in "Mad Max" in 1979 when Max was chasing down bad guys with it while he was still a cop. It returned in "The Road Warrior" (1981) where Max used it to escape the clutches of the evil forces who want to take it from him for the gasoline. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Gibson knew the importance of the car, so he didn't make many changes to its look. "All we had to do with it was make it another 45 years older," he said. "More rust. More rattle. Less original parts." But with Hardy now as Max, Gibson also saw the car as a passing of the torch. "When we changed Maxes, it becomes even more important that we have that particular handoff."</span></p><p><strong>The War Rig:</strong></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550f65eecad04f24e2ae3b2-1200-632/madmax_warrig_final.jpg" border="0" alt="madmax_warrig_final"><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros.</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Like in "The Road Warrior," much of the action in "Fury Road" is on a massive 18-wheeler. But like all things in the movie, it's unlike any you've ever seen. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With two V8 engines, and modified cabins throughout, Gibson created a vehicle that the audience wouldn't get tired of looking at half-way through the movie. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"War Rig was one built more to a prescription than an imagination," he explains. "It was such an important part of the story that George and the storyboard artists had come to a greater consensus of what was required." Gibson points out that there are up to 13 different characters inside the rig at any one time through the movie. Gibson said the classic John Wayne western, "Stagecoach," was an inspiration for creating a moving location where the drama plays out over a long stretch of time.</span></p><p><strong>The Gigahorse:</strong></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550f60a69beddd21902b68d-1200-632/madmax_gigahorse_final.jpg" border="0" alt="madmax_gigahorse_final"><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros.</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For Immorten Joe's vehicle Gibson thought of a creation that would suit a crazed post-apocalyptic leader. What he came up with, he says, is his favorite of the vehicles. Stacked with two 1959 Cadillac Coupe De Villes on top of massive tires, Gibson's thinking was "in a world where there was barely one of everything, it seemed the only person liable to have a pair would be the lead villain."</span></p><p><strong>Plymouth Rock:</strong></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550f645ecad041f502ae3b1-1200-600/madmax_plymouthrock_final.jpg" border="0" alt="madmax_plymouthrock_final"><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros.</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">To create this porcupine on wheels, Gibson took inspiration from the tribe that would drive them, the Buzzards. "George saw the Buzzards as the lowest common denominator," he said. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The first group to go after The War Rig after Furiosa tries to escape, Gibson said they are the "scrap merchants" of the tribes and was allowed to use the rustiest of materials for their vehicles. "We used bent and battered steel panels," he said. "All the spikes and panels were built out of old cars. But the stunt guys expressed some concern about rolling them at high speeds into rocks, so I had to replicate a couple where the steel spikes were stiffened goat skin which buckled and were less dangerous."</span></p><p><strong>The Doof Wagon:</strong></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550f5f1ecad04ee542ae3b1-1200-632/madmax_doofwagon_final.jpg" border="0" alt="madmax_doofwagon_final"><p class="source"><span>Warner Bros.</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Perhaps the most challenging vehicle, for all involved in the film, was the bandwagon that follows Immortal Joe's armada of twisted vehicles into battle. "George said every army has a little drummer boy and ours was Spinal Tap on acid," said Gibson. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Doof Wagon is a big rig strapped with massive drums in the rear, endless speakers in front of it, and a stage where the blind and disfigured Coma the Doof Warrior rocks out on his flam-throwing guitar. Gibson said it was the most difficult vehicle to run as its six foot wheels (which they took from old mining tractors) would get buried in the sand. And then there was the noise. "George Miller has very expansive tastes so everything has to be real," said Gibson. That means the speakers blared music all the time. "Some of the actors could barely hear themselves act," he said. But Gibson made the error of when creating the flame-throwing guitar that it did not also play. "I foolishly built it as a prototype," he said. "George was most emphatic that the guitarist had to be able to play, so we went back to the drawing board and made something that could play and shoot flames."</span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5550f51c69bedd891402b68d/doofwagon.gif" border="0" alt="doofwagon"><p class="source"><span>YouTube/Warner Bros./"Mad Max: Fury Road"</span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With a decade-worth of storyboards for the film, Gibson said the main thing he had to do to get an idea of how to make the vehicles was to write some backstory.</span></p><p>"After conversations with George about the different tribes, I put together this bible of looks and from that we drew the inspiration for each vehicle," Gibson tells Business Insider.</p><p>Some of the cars and trucks created came from scrap material Gibson's team found in junk yards throughout Australia. 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