What Happened to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome?!

nailing the final entry of a classic cinematic Trilogy is always the most difficult to get right tasked with sticking the landing and tying the narrative strands across three movies together requires a precise amount of pre-planning that must be executed in ways that both Trump its predecessors and satisfy fans at once with a compelling conclusion every once in a while we get perfect Trilogy Enders like The Good the Bad and the Ugly The Return of the King or the Last Crusade but more often than not we get limp and lackluster results like The Godfather Part 3 jaws 3D Terminator rise of the Machines Alien 3 Back to the Future 3 Men in Black 3 and countless other movies that failed to live up to the first two installments that begs the question where does Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome register on the scale of alltime good or bad final chapters in movie trilogy released 4 years after the road warrior Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was made much differently than the first two films for instance Beyond Thunderdome is the first Mad Max movie made without instrumental producer Byron Kennedy who tragically died in a 1983 helicopter crash it's also the only Franchise entry to be co-directed by someone other than Miller in this case Miller hired his friend and previous collaborator George Ogie to helm the sequel while there are plenty more cool tidbits and trivial factoids about the making of the movie it's hard to overstate the absence of Byron and the split directorial duties that led to what many believe is the worst Mad Max movie thus far ladies and gentlemen boys and girls dying time is here as we lift the hood and find out WTF happened to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome [Music] before we continue with our video here's a reminder to click the store tab on any of our joeblow channels and browse our collection of the latest and freshest designs in our merch store go get you some the first thing to know about Beyond Thunderdome is that it was not initially conceived as a Mad Max movie Miller always felt that Max rockatansky story ended with the road warrior and set out to make an AP apocalyptic Lord of the Flies type of movie as a followup yet once Miller got the idea to have an adult find the feral children in the wild and lead them toward salvation the idea for Beyond Thunderdome was born unfortunately producer Byron Kennedy whose invaluable contributions to the first two films live in infamy could not work on Beyond Thunderdome on July 17th 1983 Byron died when a helicopter he was piloting crashed at wara Dam in New South Wales Australia he was only 33 when he died that byon produced the first two Mad Max movies at age 29 and 31 is truly special and should not be understated as one might imagine Byron's death deeply affected Miller who thought he could no longer continue the franchise without him according to Miller quote I was reluctant to go ahead and then there was a sort of need to let's do something just to get over the shock and grief of all of that un quote to compensate for the sudden absence of his longtime producing partner Miller hired George Ogie to co-direct Beyond Thunderdome Miller and Ogie worked together on the 1983 Australian miniseries the dismissal about the decision to co-direct the film Miller stated quote I had a lot on my plate I asked my friend George Ogie who was working on the series could you come and help me but I don't remember the experience because I was doing it to just you know I was grieving end quote part of the collaboration process between Miller and Ogie included a rehearsal Workshop period before filming occurred this was most invaluable for the child actors who spent two months training how to hunt climb and wield makeshift weapons oddly enough Miller was attached to direct the movie contact but was granted the rights to the road warrior in Beyond Thunderdome in exchange for walking away from the Sci-Fi spectacle ultimately directed by Robert zamus written by Miller and Terry Hayes Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome takes place 20 years after events depicted in the original Mad Max partially inspired by the sobering historical documentary The Atomic Cafe Beyond Thunderdome was the most expensive Australian movie made up to then breaking a record previously held by the road warrior the original Mad Max cost roughly $400,000 the road warrior cost 4.5 million and Beyond Thunderdome boasted a budget of $10 million one of the reasons Miller cast American pop star Tina Turner was because Beyond Thunderdome was the first film to receive funding from the US of course Turner's rousing Anthem We Don't Need Another Hero became an international radio charting hit the role of Auntie entity was written specifically for Turner before she was asked to play the part when Turner arrived on set she was surprised to learn that the production Vehicles had manual transmissions Turner could not drive a stick it was given a custommade car with an automatic engine for her to drive in the film meanwhile the Kick-Ass hair douchy Sports in the movie is a wig Turner had to shave her head before filming to fit in the wig which she was more than willing to do Miller also had to coax Mel Gibson to play Max again after the actor had sworn off the part after the road warrior yet one of the strangest bits of casting involves Bruce Spence who played the gyro captain in the road warrior Spence plays the flying bandit jedadiah in Beyond Thunderdome a similar but different character than the gyro Captain rather than the gyrocopter jedadiah flies a transavia pl12 Air truck a single motor bip plane first flown in 1965 for agricultural use at the time only 120 Air truck models were produced according to Spence about his casting quote they were well into the shoot when they offered me a part described as not the gyro Captain but kind of like the gyro Captain they said there's kind of a reflection of him and that they were having difficulty casting the role so they thought that themselves why not Bruce end quote armed with a $10 million budget principal photography on Beyond Thunderdome began on September 10th 1984 to keep the project secret the film's working title was Desert World Director of Photography Dean simler returned for Duty following his work on the road warrior who claimed Beyond Thunderdome was much harder to film than its predecessor the main reason for the increased difficulty came from the Vari locations throughout Australia and to create unique visual Aesthetics for each distinct environment Max encounters for instance most of the exterior scenes were filmed in the mining town of kuber pedy South Australia meanwhile the children's Campground was filmed in mermaid's cave in the Blue Mountains in South New Wales the bustling barter town was filmed on a set built in an abandoned brick Factory called The Brick pit in home Bush Bay in Western Sydney gal told reporters that the background extr at barter town were not actors and their goth Punk appearances and attitudes were authentic although rumors persisted that Miller only directed the action scenes leaving the rest of the film to be done by Ogie Miller refuted such and blamed the confusion on a poorly worded press release according to Miller the only time he and Ogie split up while making Beyond Thunderdome involved the camel scenes otherwise the two made the movie together every step of the way while the making of Beyond Thunderdome didn't experience as many tragic fatalities or grave injuries as the first two films at least one notable mishap occurred for example the train crashing into the car with iron bar Bassie on board didn't go as planned the stunt was coordinated by Dennis Williams the same performer who flipped the ma truck in the road warrior after after delaying the stunt to accommodate the passing of an operational train Williams performed a crash sustained burns on his left arm and shoulder and had to be taken to a nearby hospital to treat his wounds one of the movie's most memorable moments comes at the end when Max helps the children flee as a sandstorm savages the land like most of mad Max's Timeless sequences the sandstorm was 100% real in addition to the camera plane deliberately flying into the storm to capture raw footage the crew members had to Brave the storm by hiding in cars taking safe cover nearby unlike the CGI heavy 21st century Mad Max films the Tactical and practical stunts and FX work are why the film remained so durable 40 years later nowadays CGI pigs would be used for the underworld scene when making Beyond Thunderdome 600 real pigs were rented from a nearby farm and used for the sequence the pigs were rented because purchasing such a large amount would have affected the local pork Market of course as the third Franchise entry there are several overt and covert callbacks to the first two films that fans may have missed for instance when Max first meets Auntie entity one of her men plays the saxophone a subtle nod to Max's wife Jesse in the first film another example includes Max's mangled left eye which has a more dilated pupil than his right eye this was a call back to the road warrior when Wes threw Max off the road rolled his V8 Pursuit special and suffered an injury similarly after sustaining a gunshot wound to his leg from Bubba zenetti in the original film Max Sports a noticeable limp and leg brace in the road warrior and a residual bandage on his knee in Beyond Thunderdome when Max wanders through barter town and relinquishes his weapons eagle-eyed fans can spot Wes's wrist held crossbow from The Road Warrior which Max must have stripped from Wes's corpse after he was smashed by a truck these small details add up and give the franchise's World building a connective continuity that bolsters Maxes character and ties each movie together however there is one confusing aspect related to blaster's fate some fans have claimed that Max spares blaster in the film because he reminds him of Beno the a Artic Rancher living with May suy in the original Mad Max others believe Beno and Blaster could be the same character despite being played by different actors as for other obscure character Connections in Beyond Thunderdome Savannah Nicks cries in horror when fin coup is lethally sunken by quicksand because she is his mother a detail revealed in the movie's novelization by Joan D vinge regarding discontinuity one of the biggest changes Beyond Thunderdome made from the first two films was the music composer the music for Mad Max and the road warrior was scored by Australian musician Brian May and no not the queen guitarist for Beyond Thunderdome Miller hired Oscar winning composer Maurice jar fresh off his Academy Award victory for David leans A Passage to India hiring jar led to an increase in the musical budget for the film resulting in an epic score featuring a full Orchestra and over 100 musicians jar turned in a massive 87-minute score including the 25-minute big chase finale as Max escorts the children across the desert away from Auntie May was understandably devastated to learn jar replaced him as he looked forward to sonically concluding the trilogy The Grand irony is that Jar's score would not be released in its entirety until 2010 due to a rights mixup when Miller gave up directing contact he was granted the rights to the entire madmax franchise unwittingly including the musical score part of Jar's unused score for Beyond Thunderdome can be heard in Wolf Gang Peterson's enemy Mind released in December 1985 meanwhile Tina Turner's hit Thunderdome theme song We Don't Need Another Hero reach number one in Canada number two in the US and number three on the UK single charts another fascinating aspect of Beyond Thunderdome relates to the deleted scenes to shorten the runtime at least two scenes were cut the first involved Max waking from a nightmare about his murdered wife Jesse and Son sprog as he cries in agony Max realizes that he is becoming like the feral Marauders he pursued as a police enforcer and vows to reins his Humanity although the footage no longer exists the novel is ation detailed the scene further the other deleted scene involved Max taking gecko to the top of a dune at night spotting the lights of bter town in the distance and declaring they'd reach tomorrow marrow land a few Snippets from this deleted scene are featured in the music video for We Don't Need Another Hero Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was released in July 1985 marking Mel Gibson's final time portraying the Title Character although the film Drew mostly positive reviews it failed to reach the critical apex of the road warrior Beyond Thunderdome grossed $36 million worldwide when factoring in rental sales the same amount as the road warrior the difference is that beond Thunderdome was more than twice as expensive as its predecessor making it harder to justify the franchise's continuation on the big screen as such Miller considered adapting the franchise to the small screen in 1986 a factoid that may have eluded fans in 1986 Miller considered making a Mad Max TV show starring Australian actor John Blake in the title role unfortunately in December 1986 Blake suffered severe brain damage during a car accident he suffered one day after filming a movie called The Light Horsemen Blake remained paralyzed in a locked in state until he died in 2011 while far less important the Mad Max TV show was scrapped after Blake was injured of course the lasting Legacy of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is still felt today Thunderdome has entered the pop lexicon to denote a chaotic Ro Rumble style Death Match where the loser faces a harsh penalty thunderdome's apocalyptic iconography has been adopted by pro wrestling and recycled in such popular music videos as Tupac and Dr Dre's California Love The Fallout video game franchise has cited the madmax franchise as a major influence and shows like Eastbound and Down and Rick and Morty have overtly parody Beyond Thunderdome name of the game kids Thunderdome two men enter one man leaves after the movie's release the vehicle featured in Beyond Thunderdome toured various car shows in Australia in 1985 while the writer ERS considered killing Max rockatansky in Beyond Thunderdome the character's Spirit died a bit when Mel Gibson portrayed the character for the final time meanwhile aunti entity is the only female antagonist in the Mad Max franchise thus far and the only villain to survive the original trilogy the gender reversal has paved the way for Fury Road and furiosa to expand the franchise's horizons Fury Road proved to be a Monumental event and marked the rousing return of Miller to his most iconic cinematic contributions sadly furiosa crashed and flamed at the box office in 20124 raising serious doubts about the future of Mad Max and the next planned installment the Wasteland but that's for another day until then it's best to slam on the brakes and say yep that's what the fck happened to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 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Published: Wed Jul 10 2024