The Weekly Planet - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: April 18, 2024

Mel Gibsons run as Mad Max Rockatansky ended with Beyond Thunderdome in 1985. Set 15 years after the last it's often considered the weakest of the original trilogy but it's not without it's moments. ...Including the inclusion of Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, a bungee cord death match, a tribe of lost children and Australia's own Gary Stephen "Angry" Anderson. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:54 Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of Caravan of Garbage where we're wrapping up Mel Gibson's Mad Max trilogy. Good, great. He had his time. Well, he will have his time after this one. You mean in, like, in Judgment? No, in Mad Max trilogy. Good. Great. He had his time. Well, he will have his time after this one. You mean in, like, in Judgment? No, in Mad Max. No, no.
Starting point is 00:01:10 He's in constant Judgment of the Lord. He knows that better than anybody else. He's making his new Jesus film, Jesus Goes to Hell and Fights Satan or whatever. That sounds awesome. It's called The Passion of Jesus Beating Up Satan. I don't know what it's called or what he's up to. It's a two-parter. It's a big thing.
Starting point is 00:01:23 Jim Caviezel is back. It's a whole situation. Great. Terrific. Anyway, that's great. Leave a like on this video because we're of course talking about Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The weakest one. It is. Some say it's the best one though. I learned recently. Who says that? It said it on
Starting point is 00:01:39 Wikipedia. It's better than I remember it but I think it's I don't enjoy it as much as the other two. This is the one that I suspect when we were kids played most on TV. Yes. Because it's the, it's the Lord of the Flies one. Yeah. It's the Lord of the Flies one. It's the Peter Pan one. It's the kid one. It's the family friendly one. I mean, not super family friendly. No. But, but it is, it's the cleanest and neatest and tidiest. Despite the lawless and grubby world. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:02:06 Yeah, it's all of those things. This one also, boys at the 80s. I mean, the last one was made in the 80s. That's right. But this one's very serious about being the 80s, I feel. In this post-apocalyptic 80s future, the only thing that is not in short supply is hairspray. Oh, my goodness.
Starting point is 00:02:21 How do you feel about Tina Turner's appearance and hairstyle? Because I love all of it. Oh, and song. Yeah, I mean, I love it. But as I understand it, the way this character, Auntie Entity, who's a character sort of one of the lords of the new apocalypse, the idea was, as I understand it, and she's passed away quite recently, is that when they were making this movie,
Starting point is 00:02:44 they wanted a character who, like everybody, had kind of lost it all in the apocalypse, but then sort of built herself up from nothing, which is sort of what happened to Tina Turner in real life. You know, she started out her music career with Ike Turner, and they had like a very tempestuous relationship. And when she got out of that, she was left with nothing. And she was just like, I'm going to start again.
Starting point is 00:03:04 And then she sort of became a bigger star than she had ever been. Exactly. And as I understand it, they went into this movie like, we should have a kind of character who is like Tina Turner. And eventually they went, should we ask Tina Turner? And they didn't. And they didn't. She just showed up.
Starting point is 00:03:20 I'm in Australia now. I'm going to be in your movie. Yeah, it's incredible because she's not an actor. She wasn't before this, but just fits right into this universe. I mean, there's a few singer-songwriter performers in this. We've got Australia's
Starting point is 00:03:35 own Angry Anderson. Now, you know I've had an encounter with Angry Anderson. I was going to ask you about that. One time I was in the Melbourne CBD with a friend of mine and we were waiting at a traffic light, a pedestrian crossing, and the light turned green, but we were a friend of mine, and we were waiting at a traffic light, a pedestrian crossing, and the light turned green, but we were having a nice chat, so we didn't go immediately. And then from behind us, we heard a guy go,
Starting point is 00:03:52 Oh, come on! And we turned around, and it was musician, actor, Angry Anderson. Not in a car? We thought, no, just walking behind us with his boys, who were all like a foot taller than him, all dressed in black. And then we crossed the road very quickly and we're like, he was angry at us. He did his signature move at us.
Starting point is 00:04:12 This is the best day of our lives. Oh, my goodness. I like the little head on the stick that he's got making himself bigger. And that's his wife also. Is it? Maybe, because at the end he's in the car crash and then he gives it a gentle petting. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, you're right.
Starting point is 00:04:28 He's having sex with that. I didn't make the connection. I thought it was more like a teddy bear situation. What I love about this universe is that nobody except Mad Max remembers anything from before. Right. Everybody's just immediately turned into an absolute fucking lunatic. Except for him. He's like, this is kind of, I don't like this world.
Starting point is 00:04:47 I've got a little bit of the old Max still in me. Well, he's the only one who can hear the narrator. Who's explained what happened. That might be it, yeah. So this also, it didn't start as a Mad Max film. It was a post-apocalyptic Lord of the Flies film. And then George Miller heard the idea and suggested that, hey, you know what?
Starting point is 00:05:06 This would make a great Mad Max redemption arc, finding his humanity again, finding his purpose. It's also set 15 years after the last, so it's quite a big time jump. And it nearly, like most Mad Max movies, didn't happen. Of course. So producer Byron Kennedy, who was instrumental in getting the first one and second one off the ground as instrumental as george miller i would say he died while piloting a helicopter in 1983 so george miller was like this is kind of a thing that we did together
Starting point is 00:05:37 now that's tragic of course but it is also a classic 80s rich guy thing oh my god is it ever just pilot a helicopter yeah awesome over some big rocks or whatever and it's very mad max as well isn't it sydney harbour he probably flew that thing over the sydney harbour bridge probably tried to do a loop-de-loop that's probably what did him in in the end but uh yeah i can't overstate how much of an impact he had on this franchise like getting it going like how integral he was and george George Miller being kind of so devastated by this, wasn't going to do it. And then decided to co-direct it with George Ogilvie. Ogilvie.
Starting point is 00:06:09 That's right. So what people thought for a long time was that George Miller just did the action and Ogilvie did everything else, which is not true. They just kind of split it up. However, but I think it definitely has a different feel than the other ones. That's how, that's how we do it as well. This sort of stuff. A lot of people think that you write all the stuff and come up with the scheduling and do editing and I just show up.
Starting point is 00:06:33 But we split it all. That's right. Yeah. What do Ben and Lawrence do? We don't actually know. We don't know. You ask them. Speak to them about that.
Starting point is 00:06:40 What they're up to. Though in saying that this feels different than the other ones, they all feel very different from each other. They're all unique, kind of in their own kind of mythological story. They sort of tie into each other, but they don't. Different haircuts. Different haircuts. You should have gone to those Feral Lost kids way earlier than this because I think they gave him a great haircut.
Starting point is 00:07:01 It's probably his best hair. I think it is. It's got a little grey at the temples. It's looking good. He had a bit of that in the last one, but it's really coming into it. He also doesn't have his leg brace from the last movie, but he is still injured. You can see in some shots one of his eyes is dilated,
Starting point is 00:07:13 and that's the one that gets knocked in the previous one. So, yeah, I think that's fun. Also, is this the first example of a movie, and it probably isn't, where a guy's made to give up all his weapons, and he's got so many weapons that's a great question i also feel like the amount of weapons he's pulling out isn't representative of the amount of weapons on the table i feel like he's doubling up on some of them because there's like five or six okay i feel like the scene goes longer than that you think maybe he's been like oh wait that's a hairdryer i'll put that back deck of playing
Starting point is 00:07:44 cards chewing gum yep or is this dynamite, that's a hairdryer. I'll put that back. Deck of playing cards, chewing gum. Yep. Or is this dynamite? No, that's dynamite. You can have that, actually. Yeah, so that's pretty fun. And what do you think of Thunderdome? And going into this, would you assume that this is what Thunderdome is?
Starting point is 00:07:58 Okay, what I would say overall is... I've written Dirt de Soleil. That's good. Thank you. I think the action overall is is is less uh spectacular than the previous one less dangerous well i mean i'm perhaps i probably because it is well yeah it is but i'm wondering i mean i think it may be a part of you know this one is probably almost certainly like directly influenced by like the hollywood system and what they think
Starting point is 00:08:23 you know family audiences want or like a broader audience. You know how like when John Woo came to America, he did face-off and he did some big actors. Paycheck. Yeah, well, there you go. No, he did it for a paycheck. He did it for a paycheck.
Starting point is 00:08:36 He did it for the movie Paycheck. That's true. You know how he's sort of flattened out. It sort of became sort of just sort of leaning into the cliches and made it sort of less interesting. I'm wondering if that's maybe one of the reasons that this was sort of made to look less dangerous and less gory to
Starting point is 00:08:53 appease those bloody Hollywood number crunches. Or I mean maybe it's because after the death of Byron Kennedy he was like, I don't want to put people in dangerous situations with huge... I don't want to put people in dangerous situations with huge... I don't want to see really horrific accidents. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:09:08 Like the one that happened to my friend. So I completely understand that. But that being said, Thunderdome is dumb. As a kid, I remember it being way bigger. But it's just two guys in a little cage with bungee cords. I remember it being outside even. Well, it sort of is outside. Wow, I mean, but it's this incredible spectator sport in this universe and i don't know if it would be
Starting point is 00:09:29 because i feel like half the time it had ended one second like he'd just run up to a guy and stab him with a fork or whatever and he'd die or and the other half would go for like an hour and a half just two idiots galumphing trying to work it out bungee cords it does it doesn't look cool no i agree i think although roger ebert really liked it i've got a hang on i'll find his quote Lumpfing about on bungee cords. It doesn't look cool. No, I agree. I think... Although Roger Ebert really liked it. I've got to... Hang on, I'll find his quote.
Starting point is 00:09:50 I don't think it's terrible, but I think for a Mad Max universe, I don't think it's got the kind of... the gore or the danger to it. Even though it is like it's covered in spikes and everyone's got a sword and whatever, or a chainsaw. It doesn't feel that compelling. Roger Ebert called it the first really original movie idea
Starting point is 00:10:11 about how to stage a fight since we got the first karate movies and one of the great creative action scenes in the movies. Well, maybe that's true. This probably hadn't been seen before. It was the parkour of its day. Maybe for 10 years after, this appeared in movies that we haven't seen. Absolutely. The next James Bond movie, he's just bungeeing around.
Starting point is 00:10:31 I mean, he bungeed in Goldeneye, didn't he? There we go. Maybe that's why. And we're talking about it. He bungeed into a toilet, as we all know. He certainly did, yeah. Well, they've got some funny ideas because Matt... Well, that's what the Australian movie industry is based on, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:10:45 A bunch of funny ideas. A bunch of people with funny ideas. Paul Hogan. Alvin Purple. Alvin Purple, yep. Yeah, there are- And then the Paul Hogan, Alvin Purple sequels. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:10:54 Paul Hogan meets Alvin Purple. Paul Hogan and Alvin Purple go to Paris or whatever. That's right. Oh, yeah, by the way, the story in this one is Matt and Maxie showed up again. He's carless. Apparently, his car is in the back of that camel thing. We can talk about that a bit later in potential sequels and ideas that came after this that didn't happen. So, yeah, he's just been, he's mostly like he's a feral animal and he's just kind of wandering around trying to survive.
Starting point is 00:11:18 And he gets drawn into this world by Tina Turner who says, listen, I want you to throw off the other influencing force at Barter Town, who's like a little guy and a big guy, and you can fight. Laurel and Hardy. Yeah, basically. And you can kill him in a big arena or whatever, and then we'll pay you whatever you want. He's like, cool, I'll do that. I'll do anything for money.
Starting point is 00:11:38 There's no way anyone would betray me in this universe. No, no, it's all fine, even though they try to betray him immediately. But then they're like, it's a test and he's like all right all right i feel like the the myth of him is really ramped up in this one because they're like look how fast this guy is and i'm like he's fastish i guess he's not like crazy fast but everybody's very slow i guess from all the irradiated water they've been drinking yeah yeah, so their idea of like entertainment is bungee jumping, Thunderdome. And then their idea of a gulag is you put a person on a horse
Starting point is 00:12:10 and then backwards and then you put like a big fake head on them and then you just send them out into the desert. Also, you probably need that horse. This is probably an expensive endeavor. You know, you could hit him in the back of the head with a spade. Yeah. And also like if you've got a big spinning wheel, there's some great options on there. Like sending someone out in the back of the head with a spade. Yeah. And also, like, if you've got a big spinning wheel, there's some great options on there.
Starting point is 00:12:26 Like sending someone out in the desert to die, that's not exactly like a thrill a minute. Everybody goes, yay. Well, he's gone. Yeah, right. It's not really anything. No. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:37 But anyway. And also the horse does die. That's true. So they're not even getting that back. It's not even coming back later, I assume. That's what I'm saying. In fact, it was killed in the manner of all our childhood fears, which is quicksand.
Starting point is 00:12:49 That's right, yeah. Encountered very little quicksand in my adult life, if I'm honest. And you know what? This is an enduring legacy for horses drowning, if you've seen The NeverEnding Story. I love it. It's a staple of my childhood. Stable of your childhood.
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Starting point is 00:14:20 That's sunrisechallenge.ca. He's a different pilot. Are they brothers? Has George Miller definitively said whether or not they're brothers? That's sunrisechallenge.ca. the archetype of a pilot this is what they look like that's right this guy yeah maybe there's a bunch of these dudes running around maybe they're coming out of a cloning facility maybe there's a cloning facility i don't know we have to check the comics or the video game if there's a bruce spence cloning facility we should actually do that yeah yeah yeah uh but yeah it definitely takes a turn into like ewok village and i like the idea for this that they got like a whole bunch of different kids of different ages there There's actors and gymnastics peoples. Gymnasts. No, musicians. They auditioned 1,800 kids to find this particular group.
Starting point is 00:15:12 And if you watch the behind-the-scenes stuff, it's fun. They're all having a good time and writing little songs and all of that. Have any of them gone on to become famous people? Yes. Are any of them silver chair, for example? No, one of them. Is any of them Silverchair? One of them is Silverchair.
Starting point is 00:15:26 One of them is Justine Clark, you might know. Oh. Who's great, from Play School and various other things. There you go. But I started off in Mad Max. Are any of them Grinspoon, the band Grinspoon? I don't think any of them are the band Grinspoon, Mason. I don't think any of them are in the band The Living End either.
Starting point is 00:15:42 Not even that guy who's playing the big standy-uppy electric bass. Area 7? Australian ska band Area 7. One of them might be from Area 7. 28 Days. Interesting. Any of them? No, I don't believe so.
Starting point is 00:15:54 I don't want to rule it out. Okay, sure. Are any of them from the band Body Jar, do you think? Some of them might be Body Jar. This is what people like, I think, just naming things they don't know. That's right. Get on Spotify, folks. They're all there. Check it all out. You like late I think, just naming things they don't know. That's right. Get on Spotify, folks. They're all there.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Check it all out. You like late 90s Australian pop punk? You won't. There's some good stuff in there. I agree. I won't hear a word against it. Is the train stunt, does it live up to the truck? No.
Starting point is 00:16:20 I'll stop you there. No. I see where they're going. I like the idea of it and watching again behind the scenes the mechanics of it and getting that plane to take off
Starting point is 00:16:29 you know having the you know if you've got a train on a track and you've got to reset that stunt that's a very difficult thing to kind of pull off George Miller's wearing
Starting point is 00:16:37 like an old timey kind of like hunters you know those bell shaped hats on set which is a lot of fun it's good but it's I mean it's good but it exists in the in between You know, those like bell-shaped hats on set. Yeah, which is a lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:16:47 It's good, but it's, I mean, it's good, but it exists in the in-between state of like, it's not as frenetic and like genuinely dangerous looking as the Road Warrior. Yeah. And it's not as kind of visual effects assisted chaos and with the years of experience in directing of Fury Road. You know what I mean? Yeah, okay, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:06 It's somewhere in the middle. It's somewhere else. Yeah, it's somewhere else. Yeah, yeah. So what's interesting is they got back Dennis Williams, the guy who rolled the Mack truck from the Road Warrior. He was involved in a stunt where a train destroys the car or something like that.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Okay. Which happens at least once in this whole scene. Sure, okay. I wasn't glued to it. Honestly, I'm trying to think back to what specific part he did, but I can't even think. I think about the road warrior, and I can picture that entire sequence. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:34 Where this, it's kind of. This one is a little bit muddled, and it's even a little bit Looney Tunes in the sense that at one point, Angry Anderson's on the front of a train, and it explodes. Oh, yeah. And then he's just fine later. He's just a bit dusty. He's a bit dusty, isn't he? And some of his teeth have become it explodes. Oh, yeah. And then he's just fine later. He's just a bit dusty. He's a bit dusty, isn't he?
Starting point is 00:17:46 And some of his teeth have become piano keys. Yeah, yeah. You know, and he's got a big lump on his head that springs out. Do you think this is a nod to Slim Dusty, famous Australian country musician? Fantastic. Anyway, so after Dennis Miller performed a stunt, he sustained burns to his left arm and shoulder
Starting point is 00:18:02 and was transported to a hospital by a helicopter. So, again, he came back for probably no money to perform a very dangerous stunt. But he did it for the exposure. He did it for the exposure. And we all know Dennis Miller. I fucking did this last week. His name is Dennis Williams. I'm a moron.
Starting point is 00:18:17 You're cool. Thanks, man. What if we all just, what if we both do two clean edits of us saying Dennis Williams and Dennis Miller and then you can cut them in? Okay, I'll do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, do you know what it's time for? What's it time for?
Starting point is 00:18:29 Beyond Thun Trivia. It's the worst one yet. They're supposed to be bad. Don't you realize that? No, but there's a fine line there, I think. Oh, okay. This was your Beyond Thunderdome. Making a funny trivia name.
Starting point is 00:18:41 Well, then next week is going to be incredible. Isn't it, Mason, by that logic? Probably. Anyway, Tina Turner had to- I think you'll be inspired by Fury Road. I probably will. Come up with a really good name. Well, then next week is going to be incredible. Isn't it, Mason, by that logic? Probably. Anyway, Tina Turner had to... I think you'll be inspired by Fury Road. I probably will. It's a really good name.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Yeah, yeah. Tina Turner had to shave her head for the wig to fit perfectly, which she did. She was cool with it. And that's great. That's cool. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Really, if you're going to sign on for a Mad Max movie, you're going to have to expect they're going to do something dumb with your hair, right? Get ready for an atrocious haircut. Yeah. Think of the worst haircut you've ever seen on an Australian. It's going to have to expect they're going to do something dumb with your hair. Get ready for an atrocious haircut. Think of the worst haircut you've ever seen on an Australian.
Starting point is 00:19:08 It's going to be worse. Now sign on that dotted line. 400 pigs had to be used for the pig sequence. And they were numbered one to... Here we go. Here's that joke, everyone. They'd be numbered one to 401. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:19:23 And then you'd be like, at the end of the production schedule, you'd be like, where's number 398? I can't find it. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. It's not there. They killed it. Though in using that many pigs,
Starting point is 00:19:34 the local council took them to court about being out. The council's typical, right? Right. Bloody nanny state. Yeah, yeah. To stop them from doing so. So for them to be able to use that many pigs, it was under strict conditions.
Starting point is 00:19:46 So everybody had to wear white protective gear when handling them and filming them and all of that. And everybody had to be disinfected coming in and out. It was very controlled and contained, which I feel like if they had 400 pigs in the first movie, they would have just shot them all at the end, just left them right there. They would have left them out there to breed and we'd have so many feral hogs in this country right now. More than we already have. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:08 Yeah. This is fun. Do you like politics? No. This is fun. Angry Anderson's character Iron Bar was named in mocking reference to Australian politician Wilson Iron Bar Tuckey. Tuckey was convicted of assault after striking an Aboriginal man with a length of steel cable
Starting point is 00:20:22 and fined $50. The man was allegedly being held down by Tucky's brother at the time. So that's where he got the name from. This famous politician did this thing and then became a politician. I think that's bad. I also think it's bad and I'm glad he's dead. He's probably dead. If you're alive, I fucking hope you're not.
Starting point is 00:20:41 I'm not wishing him dead. Are you sure? Rest in peace, mate This is fun This is a bit of a throwback Okay Now, they had to work with Camels for this Mad Max's
Starting point is 00:20:52 Sorry, Matthew Max's You know, it was pulled along by Camels Everybody on set apparently hated the lead camel He was a real prick Even for a camel Just like really indignant And his name, of course, was Rodney Because people will appreciate that And they'll write in the comments
Starting point is 00:21:08 and we'll see it and we'll reply to every one of them. That's correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, the box office for this on a budget of $10 million, which I think was the most expensive Australian production of the time. It made $36 million. Okay, that's not a bad return. No, it's all right.
Starting point is 00:21:23 And again, it played for years. That's true. It's the one that you's alright. And again, it played for years. That's true. It's the one that you've probably seen on TV, all in Australia at least. And in terms of sequels, yes, we eventually got to Fury Road, which we'll talk about next week. But I want to talk about what they were sort of going to do instead of that. I
Starting point is 00:21:38 will allow it. Okay, thank goodness. You're not going to take me to local council court and fight me on it? I mean, maybe later. Okay, cool. So, originally, this was supposed to be the final in the trilogy That was the I mean if they did more than If they did another one It wouldn't be a trilogy anymore would it?
Starting point is 00:21:52 The Indiana Jones trilogy I don't even understand it anymore Do you understand it? It's not even two trilogies Right? It's a trilogy and then two other movies Do another one so we can at least have the Indiana Jones two trilogies I can get the Indiana Jones two trilogies box set
Starting point is 00:22:04 That's right One good trilogy and one really good trilogy And you get to decide which is which so we can at least have the Indiana Jones 2 trilogies. I can get the Indiana Jones 2 trilogies box set. That's right. One good trilogy and one really good trilogy. And you get to decide which is which. That's right. Yeah. George Miller initially planned to bring Mad Max to the small screen and he actually started developing a TV series in the 80s with John Blake to star.
Starting point is 00:22:19 But John Blake's acting career was ended when he sustained permanent brain damage in an auto accident. So that was put on hold for a while. But then he revived the idea in the 90s. There was even a Variety article about it. And the idea was that this was going to be more low on violence, more adventure of the week, kind of a Xena warrior princess style show, where it was about not so much him going out into the wasteland
Starting point is 00:22:42 and shooting a bunch of people with the one bullet that he has um he was gonna line up indiana jones style yeah he was in the bad trilogy he was doing he was doing odd jobs for people to get parts for his car and that was sort of worked into a comic which explains why he has that car at the start of fury road for like a minute before he flips it like immediately. So that's not the same car, but if there is any kind of continuity in this, it's because of that. But if you actually want like a lead up into Fury Road outside of the comics, which is like the official thing, George Miller was actually developing a video game with Corey
Starting point is 00:23:19 Balrog, who he's been working on of late, the new God of War games. Oh, I mean, that's appropriate, given his name is Balrog. Exactly. Is that a stage name? No, I think that's his real name. Oh. You got a problem with that? No, it's just cool.
Starting point is 00:23:31 Is he related to the Balrog? Yeah, he's related to the Balrog. From the Lord of the Rings. Of Khazad-dûm, yes, Mason, he is. And so they started developing this game together and were using all these concepts that they developed and things like the war boys and what the wasteland will look like
Starting point is 00:23:47 and different locations and aesthetics and different cars and all of that. And there's a lot of overlap in that and Fury Road. But George Miller stepped away from that. Warner Brothers owned the concepts that they put together for that game and put it into the Mad Max video game from 2015 without George Miller's involvement.
Starting point is 00:24:05 But that's also why it's so similar to Fury Road because it's sort of a prequel to Fury Road, but not really. Like anything in the Mad Max universe, it's not really connected to anything, or it sort of is. Which is very convenient. Star Wars should have done that. They should have taken a page out of George Miller's book and been like, yeah, this next one?
Starting point is 00:24:24 Maybe related. You're talking about the good trilogy the really good trilogy or the best trilogy all of them yeah absolutely hey this actually doesn't make sense it's a lot so yeah it's not really connected you're stupid for pointing that out actually it's not really connected there's a narrator at the front at the start of every one and he's like this is actually not really connected yeah you're being narrator at the start of every one, and he's like, this is actually not really connected. Yeah, you're being pedantic. Also, I'm a different guy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:48 You're robbing the magic from this. All right, anyways, if you want to come back next week, we are talking about Fury Road, aren't we? Yes. My goodness. Excited for that one? Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good from memory, and I hope it is still very good.
Starting point is 00:24:58 Me too. I hope I don't find any small flaws in it upon a rewatch that ruined it for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, actually, Thunderdome's the best plan. You're not going to say that. But anyways, if you do want to say that early, you can actually head over to bigsandwich.co, where guess what?
Starting point is 00:25:12 What? There's bonus podcasts up there. There's movie commentaries. We do video game Let's Plays. Expect to see some Mad Max content coming up very soon. Oh, very good. Yeah. Not to spoil it, but there's three-ish Mad Max games, and we're going to be looking at all very good. Yeah. Not to spoil it,
Starting point is 00:25:28 but there's three ish Mad Max games and we're going to be looking at all of them. Great. Some of them good. One of them is good. And we're playing several. There's three. Oh, and one of them is not really a Mad Max game.
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