The 1979 cult classic Mad Max helped establish Australia’s national cinema, and spawned two equally iconic sequels, The Road Warrior and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. The upcoming fourth installment Mad Max: Fury Road has a lot to live up to – based on an image we posted in December, Tom Hardy at least looks up to the task of inheriting the role Mel Gibson made famous three decades ago. Whether or not it will convincingly recreate the harsh terrain of the post-apocalyptic Wasteland, or the crazy vehicles used by the villainous marauding gangs, is another matter altogether. Luckily, some production footage has surfaced, and it should shed some light on the subject.
In the video, the deserts of Namibia and South Africa stand in for the Outback as a group of heavily stylized vehicles roll over the sand. Fans looking for the imaginative punk cars and big rigs they remember will find them here in spades – I was most impressed by what looks to be a pickup truck with warthog tusks curled over the hood. Hopefully, the War Rig belonging to Max’s ally, Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), is included in the bizarre caravan. See the many designs below:
Directed by George Miller, the film is an account of the Road War that follows when Max and the Imperator Furiosa help a group of settlers flee across the Wasteland. Mad Max: Fury Road also stars Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nathan Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. It’s scheduled for release in summer 2014.
Do you think the vehicles in the footage rival those driven in the original films?