No film series has captured the anarchic dystopian science-fiction vibe as giddily as George Miller’s Mad Max movies. From 1979’s original Mad Max through 1981’s The Road Warrior and then slamming into Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, the future was brutal, toxic, barren, and filled with rabid vehicular beasts built from scraps that civilization had left behind. Thirty years later, it’s time to get back to some Australian postapocalyptic insanity.



George Miller is relaunching Mad Max with the long-rumored, then long-delayed, and now imminent Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller needed about 25 years of development, including 12 agonizing years after announcing that a script had been written, to get this movie made. And while previous Max movies were filmed in the Australian outback, this one was shot in Namibia.



Mad Max made Mel Gibson a star, but he’s not in Fury Road. Instead the part of Mad Max Rockatansky has moved to Tom Hardy, the British actor who played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. Joining him is Charlize Theron as “Imperator Furiosa,” supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as “Splendid,” Lenny Kravitz’s daughter Zoë Kravitz as “Toast,” and Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough as “Capable.” If you were looking for a cat name, there you go.



Here are 10 of the vehicles featured in the film. But this is nowhere near a comprehensive catalog of the 150-or-so lunatic machines conceived by production designer Colin Gibson and built by the production company. Information on the mechanical substance of these is sketchy because, unfortunately, we weren’t on the set.



That noted, keep in mind that practically all the stunts seen in Fury Road were done “practically,” which means physically, in the real world, using actual cars and living stunt people. What computerized graphic trickery was used in the film was reportedly to clean up shots and digitally erase safety and camera riggings.



When you’re filming in Namibia, it’s not like there’s a nearby O'Reilly overstuffed with spare auto parts. So the on-camera cars had to be built to be reliable and rugged rather than fast. And, of course, there were duplicates of all these vehicles. After all, having a film crew wait around for a broken car to be fixed is very expensive.



Mad Max: Fury Road opens on every movie screen in the Milky Way on May 15. Plan accordingly.

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