4 Signs 'Mad Max 4' Is Probably the Craziest Movie Ever Made

George Miller is handling the Mad Max reboot. Let's check out his filmography:

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Not Photoshopped.

According to his resume, Miller is capable of making exactly two kinds of movies: anthropomorphic animal adventures and Mad Max (he also directed the best segment of the Twilight Zone movie, which involved John Lithgow screaming about a gremlin on the wing of a jumbo jet). Yes, the same man who invented Thunderdome and the idea of futuristic armored rape cannibals on dune buggies also made both Happy Feet films and the Babe sequel. We assume this means that Mad Max will eventually have a talking pig sidekick and a cousin who is also a gremlin.

That's right -- that last guy, whom you've never heard of, was already in a Mad Max. He played the villainous Toecutter back in 1979, when Gibson was still Australian. Miller is taking absolutely no chances with this reboot -- he wants a man he can trust to be snarling and murderous (which would explain why he stuck with Gibson for an entire decade). Keays-Byrne isn't playing the squashed zombie of his previous character, though -- he plays the primary antagonist, a brand-new villain named Immortan Joe.

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He politely declined Hardy's suggestions for making the masked vocals work.

The cast is rounded out by a bunch of X-Men and that British lady from Transformers 3 who was somehow worse than Megan Fox. Tossing the lot of them into a sea of vehicular violence in the middle of the desert seems like the perfect recipe to chase the summer blues of 2015 away.

Miller claims that the movie has tested well, and if that plot description is true, we can see why -- he's taken the best parts of The Road Warrior and just made that the entire goddamned movie.

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Well, almost all.

... we assume the studio's exact words were, "We want the audience to shit themselves so hard that they can't even walk when the movie ends."

If that sounds crazy, check this out -- Miller went back to the bygone era of strapping stuntmen inside cars and flinging them through the air, performing 80 percent of the film's stunts without any CGI whatsoever. Instead of parking actors in front of green screens, he hiked everyone out into the Namibian desert and just filmed that shit.

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"How attached are you to your arm, Charlize? I'd like this as real as possible."

Also interesting to note, the movie was filmed in order, which is incredibly rare. Normally shooting schedules are broken up according to the actors' availability and the availability of certain locations, and the movie is filmed in random bits and pieces that are put in the proper order during the editing phase. But, when your movie is one long car chase with almost no dialogue, it's easier to film it in sequence, even if that means some of the longest rehearsals of any of the actors' careers. Miller likened Fury Road to a ballet (if ballets involved shotguns, skull masks, and explosions), and we are not ashamed to say that we are super on-board for this particular ballet. We always felt Swan Lake could've used more car chases.