Nightrider is able to elude the MFP until the organisation's top pursuit man, Max Rockatansky, manages to break his concentration and steer him into a roadblock, resulting in a fiery crash that kills both Nightrider and his girlfriend.Īt the MFP garage, Max is shown his new police car: a specially-built supercharged V8-powered black Pursuit Special. The berserk motorbike gang member Crawford "Nightrider" Montazano kills a rookie officer of the poorly-funded Main Force Patrol (MFP)-one of the last remaining law enforcement agencies-and escapes with his girlfriend in the dead officer's Pursuit Special. In 2020, a fifth film, to be titled Furiosa, was announced.Ī near-future dystopian Australia is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily due to widespread oil shortages and ecocide. The film became the first in the Mad Max series, giving rise to three sequels: Mad Max 2 (1981), Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Fury Road (2015). The success of Mad Max has been credited for further opening up the global market to Australian New Wave films.
Filmed on a budget of A$400,000, it earned more than US$100 million worldwide in gross revenue and set a Guinness record for most profitable film. The film initially received a polarized reception upon its release in April 1979, although it won four AACTA Awards. Principal photography for Mad Max took place in and around Melbourne and lasted for six weeks. James McCausland and Miller wrote the screenplay from a story by Miller and Kennedy. Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, and Roger Ward also star. Mel Gibson stars as "Mad" Max Rockatansky, a police officer turned vigilante in a near-future Australia in the midst of societal collapse. Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and produced by Byron Kennedy.
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