A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad
Max: Fury Road?with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew
including Charlize Theron Tom Hardy and director George Miller from the pop culture reporter
for The New York Times Kyle Buchanan. It won six Oscars and has been hailed as the greatest
action film ever but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen... or that
anybody survived the production. The story of this modern classic spanned nearly two decades of
wild obstacles as visionary director George Miller tried to mount one of the most difficult
shoots in Hollywood history. Production stalled several times stars Tom Hardy and Charlize
Theron clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert and Miller's crew engineered
death-defying action scenes that were among the most dangerous ever committed to film. Even
accomplished Hollywood figures are flummoxed by the accomplishment: As the director Steven
Soderbergh has said ?I don't understand how they're not still shooting that film and I don't
understand how hundreds of people aren't dead.? Kyle Buchanan takes readers through every step
of that moviemaking experience in vivid detail from Fury Road's unexpected origins through its
outlandish casting process to the big-studio battles that nearly mutilated a masterpiece. But
he takes the deepest dive in reporting the astonishing facts behind a shoot so unconventional
that the film's fantasy world began to bleed into the real lives of its cast and crew. As they
fought and endured in a wasteland of their own the only way forward was to have faith in their
director's mad vision. But how could Miller persevere when almost everything seemed to be
stacked against him? With hundreds of exclusive interviews and details about the making of Fury
Road readers will be left with one undeniable conclusion: There has never been a movie so
drenched in sweat so forged by fire and so epic in scope.
