‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic (Published 2020)

A Mad Max future grafted onto a cowboy past.

My luck was having a director who was an independent filmmaker who, having made a very low budget science-fiction film, THX 1138, did not flinch when I presented untried solutions to the then insurmountable problem of making all the dressings and props.

It’s important to remember that movies began as a fad—not unlike the Atari games today. No one knew what the future might bring—or if, indeed, there would even be a future—but the present was plenty lucrative enough for even the greediest executive.