Mad Max
Australian science fiction film starring Mel Gibson. Released in 1979, it was directed by George Miller and was written by Byron Kennedy with Miller.
The film is set in a semi-post-apocalyptic Australian outback, with an anarchic society on the verge of collapse.
Many of the car chase scenes for the original Mad Max were filmed near the town of Lara, just north of Geelong (Victoria, Australia).
Two sequels followed, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (The Road Warrior in the USA) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and a fourth movie, Mad Max 4: Fury Road, is in hiatus. Some consider Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) to be a retreatment of the original premise, using similar themes, characters and images, rather than a true sequel.
George Miller was an M.D. in Australia who worked in the Emergency Room of a hospital, who had seen many of the injuries and deaths of the type depicted in the movie, and felt that the audience would not believe such things were happening today, so he decided to write the story instead as a post-nuclear holocaust.
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