Awesome Mad Max

Director George Miller returns to the wasteland with a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. The captivating Anya Taylor-Joy plays a young Furiosa, and Chris Hemsworth portrays her captor, the evil Warlord Dementus. As he battles Immortan Joe for supremacy, Furiosa turns up the jets to fight her way home. In theaters 5.24.24.

Model maker Plasmo shows off another amazing build, taking on Imperator Furiosa’s epic War Rig from Mad Max: Fury Road. He used a resin-based 3D printer and a downloadable 3D model to generate its numerous parts, but bringing it all together and making it look so great is all Plasmo.

Runaway Pictures Inc. edited together footage from Mad Max: Fury Road with Hanna Barbera’s Wacky Races, starring the villainous Dick Dastardly and his snickering canine sidekick Muttley. Who will win this epic battle across the wasteland? And why wasn’t this music in the movie?

A while back we spotted some custom Cozy Coupes that Ian Pfaff modded into Mad Max-style rides for his little ones. Now, he’s released an amazing parody trailer starring the cars and his kids, Junior and Benji, with the help of filmmakers Aaron Ulrich and Markus Rutledge.

Comedian Paul Savage envisions what might happen if Disney/Pixar got their hands on the Mad Max franchise, by simply applying the eyes from the vehicles in Cars to the deathmobiles from George Miller’s action flick. He needs to do this with The Fast & The Furious next.

Did you know that Mad Max creator George Miller looks to Alfred Hitchcock for inspiration, Charlize Theron kept grease in the War Rig, and that the crew custom made 150 vehicles for Fury Road? All that and more in CineFix’s video.

This skit should really be titled Reasonable War Boy, but that doesn’t make this Late Night with Seth Meyers’ parody of Mad Max: Fury Road any less amusing. Seriously, you’d think they’d all be driving Priuses if they were so worried about guzzolene consumption.

“For me it’s a documentary.” Mad Max director and co-creator George Miller spoke with Conan about his approach to filmmaking, the logic behind the Coma-Doof Warrior and more. It’s a good talk, despite Conan’s stiff interviewing. Part 2 here.

Visual effects studio Brave New World shares some of its contributions to Mad Max: Fury Road, including adding the movie’s eye-popping blue skies and orange deserts, adding Furiosa’s metal prosthetic arm and removing tire tracks from the sand.

Microsoft and Warner Bros. are giving away 10 Xbox One digital game codes of the Mad Max game and one custom Mad Max-themed Xbox One console. To enter, all you have to do is answer a question on Major Nelson’s blog.

Screen Junkies struggles to find anything really bad to say about Mad Max: Fury Road, because it was just that good, instead focusing on the unusual career of director George Miller, and a few other nitpicks about one of the most entertaining movies in years.

To promote the upcoming Mad Max video game, Devin Supertramp set out to make an epic desert wasteland action flick of his own – only the cars in this one are much smaller; and the weapons far less lethal. Go behind the scenes here.

Pledge your life to the Ice King, and he’ll carry you to the gates of Lumpy Space. Ryan May’s Mad Max x Adventure Time posters inspired animator Egor Zhgun to make this algebraic version of the Mad Max: Fury Road trailer.

Mondo has a timed sale for three awesome screen prints based on Mad Max: Fury Road. The 13″x 16″ portraits of Max and Immortan Joe are by Mike Mitchell. The 36″x 24″ poster is by Ken Taylor. Until 8/13 only.

Mad Max: Fury Road‘s trailers were sublime, but if you’ve seen the film then this mashup with 331Erock’s heavy metal rendition of Yakety Sax isn’t so absurd. The movie does have a few Benny Hill-esque moments.

Ezequiel López combined footage from the 1963 madcap comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with audio from Mad Max: Fury Road, resulting in an action-packed car chase flick that we’d pay good money to see on the big screen.

This hilarious mashup of Mad Max: Fury Road and the Star Wars universe by Krishna Shenoi envisions a world where Darth Vader has taken over for Immortan Joe. The full title of the film is Road Wars: The Imperator Strikes Back.

(PG-13 language) Coma, the flamethrower guitar wielding freak from Mad Max: Fury Road, provides guitarists with tips and tricks to help them Doof out with their Doofs out. Man, we didn’t even think about all the bugs.

Erick Solis and Ricardo Trevino aka Playback Collective edited clips of the sublime Mad Max: Fury Road to make an ’80s-style trailer for the flick. Or at least a music video for Power Glove’s badass song Vengeance.

Riding on the coattails of Fury Road, Warner Bros. Interactive and Avalanche Studios have taken wraps of the “story” trailer for its upcoming combat/racing hybrid. Seems like way more action than plot, and we’re good with that.

The Wasteland meets the Mushroom Kingdom in Kris Sundberg’s hilarious remix of the Mad Max: Fury Road trailer peppered a few subtle elements from the world of Mario Kart. Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another fuel truck.

The multitalented Nathan Barnatt went and saw Mad Max: Fury Road, and decided to post a video review of the film. But unlike other critics, he kept his description short and to the point. And we couldn’t agree more with his assessment.

Howe & Howe made a custom version of its Ripsaw ATV for Mad Max: Fury Road. The vehicle will be made to look like a (very, very, very) heavily modified Chrysler Valiant Charger known as the Peacemaker.