{"id":52042,"date":"2024-05-24T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2045484"},"modified":"2024-05-24T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T06:40:36","slug":"mad-max-director-on-how-he-filmed-furiosas-electrifying-stowaway-sequence","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/mad-max-director-on-how-he-filmed-furiosas-electrifying-stowaway-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Max director on how he filmed Furiosa\u2019s electrifying stowaway sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Miller explains the groundbreaking pre-vis technology behind the film’s showstopping action set-piece. <\/p>

By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 24 May 2024 at 06:00 AM<\/p>

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There are few working film directors who have contributed more to action cinema over the years than George Miller \u2013 whose Mad Max series has ushered in some of the most impressive work ever accomplished in the genre.<\/p>\n

Now the Australian filmmaker is back with the fifth entry in the franchise, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/a>, which has just arrived in UK cinemas and has received almost unanimous rave reviews<\/a> from critics.<\/p>\n

The new film serves as a prequel to 2015\u2019s hugely acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road and once again delivers several electrifying, high octane sequences full of incredible stunt work and choreography.<\/p>\n

Arguably the centre-piece of the film is a segment titled Stowaway to Nowehere, which unfolds over 15 minutes and finds Anya Taylor-Joy\u2019s Furiosa and Tom Burke\u2019s Praetorian Jack involved in an epic road fight that sees their War Rig confronted by flying motorbikes and parachuting assailants.<\/p>

It\u2019s an incredible sequence, and so during an exclusive interview with Miller,\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/a> asked the director just how such a complicated scene was pulled off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell it took a long time!\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s built\u2026 we wrote something, and then we storyboarded something based on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut [the] thing that helped us make it much more organic and effective was Guy Norris, with whom I\u2019ve been working there for 41 years, the second unit director, stunt coordinator, he and his sons developed a system called PROXi, which is a very accurate and fast way of pre-vising.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Furiosa.<\/span><\/figcaption> Warner Bros<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

He continued: \u201cWe used pre-vis on Fury Road and other films\u2026 but we started working with this system called PROXi\u2026 which they basically devised and then we did our own version for this film, which we called Toy Box, which not only let you virtually have that War Rig but put people underneath it, above it, front, back, and flying around the space around it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only doing that, but you could put all the cameras in, and you could choreograph the cameras with what people were doing. So we built that up, and we did it virtually.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then we had to figure out how to do it in a practical way \u2013 which [because] we have the accurate tools, it wasn\u2019t experimental, we knew what each shot required. We knew where each camera was.<\/p>\n

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