“We were in the middle of nowhere, so far away from the studio system that [Warner Bros] can’t really see what’s going on, and just getting things to and from the set was a nightmare,” Tom Hardy tells Esquire regarding Mad Max: Fury Road. “We’d lose half a vehicle in sand and have to dig it out. It was just this unit in the middle of x-million square-kilometres of desert, and then this group of lunatics in leathers, like a really weird S&M party, or a Hell’s Angels convention. It was like Cirque du Soleil meets fucking Slipknot.”
If that quote doesn’t do it for you, or the batch of previous trailers, perhaps a look back at the franchise will do. Ahead of the release exactly a month today, Warner Bros. has released yet another look at the film, preceded by a catch-up of George Miller‘s previous Mel Gibson-led trilogy, which is available on Blu-ray. Ahead of a Cannes premiere, check it out below, along with a batch of posters and the first trailer from Junkie XL‘s soundtrack.
Mad Max: Fury Road opens on May 15th.