“ I had to think in terms of something that is highly verbal. “With ‘Fury Road,’ very few words are spoken,” Miller said. It’s easy to see how the two films were, as Miller put it, holidays from each other. You can listen to the full discussion above, or via subscribing to the Toolkit podcast via Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify, or Overcast.

Listen to the full episode below, or read on for excerpts from our interview. How to Make a Modern Period Piece for $5 Million: Behind the Scenes of ‘BlackBerry’ “It’s very important that you be as objective and neutral as possible when you are assessing something as you’re directing.” Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” in the late 1990s, so for years he moved back and forth between it and “Fury Road.” “One was a palette cleanser for the other,” Miller told IndieWire, explaining that by working on both he was better able to retain his objectivity about each project. So how does a filmmaker follow a movie that Edgar Wright described as “the best action film of all time” and that an Empire magazine poll anointed “the greatest movie of the century”?įor an artist like Miller, there was really only one choice: to strike out in an entirely different direction, which is what he did with his dazzling new fantasy film “ Three Thousand Years of Longing.” Miller first bought the rights to the film’s source material, A.S.

Writer-director George Miller’s 2015 action extravaganza “Mad Max: Fury Road” is already considered a classic of its genre less than a decade after its initial theatrical release.

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