Kyle Buchanan: I had already been very excited about it from the trailers. How did it impact you then, and why do you think it resonated with audiences so strongly? The Film Stage: Let’s go back to the first time you saw Mad Max: Fury Road. Here Buchanan discusses the impetus for the project, why the time was right, and how the COVID-19 pandemic indirectly led to the book’s genesis.
The result is an essential filmmaking text, one that inspires appreciation for the years of effort that went into the making of Fury Road, and also enhances the viewing experience. But I’m so ready for people to actually get their hands on it.” And of course there are subsequent drafts and editing that goes on. “This is a book where I turned in the first draft of it a year ago. “In my line of work, you write something and it’s out there almost immediately,” he explains. 22), and it is a genuine must-read.Īs Buchanan explained during a recent interview with The Film Stage, writing a book was a uniquely different experience than writing an article for the Times. That book is Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road (William Morrow released on Feb. Now comes a book-length oral history featuring all major players (Miller, Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy) and all behind-the-scenes controversies. Years later, Buchanan wrote an oral history for the Times to commemorate the film’s fifth anniversary. The ever-quotable reporter and awards-season columnist for the New York Times was at Vulture when Fury Road made its long-awaited debut following whispers of on-set trouble. But the creation of this follow-up to Miller’s Mad Max trilogy was, shall we say, complex-and for most viewers, difficult to even imagine.Įnter Kyle Buchanan. My world is fire and blood.” So began George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, a modern masterpiece that is as daring, audacious, and immaculately crafted as any film ever made.
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