101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (*so far)
68Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris
Some films have great chase sequences. This long-awaited entry to the Mad Max franchise IS a great chase sequence, one that was blocked out on over 3,500 storyboard panels. Co-writer George Miller said in the Hollywood Reporter, “The approach to this film, once the world is decided on, is almost like a documentary.…We had to make everything about it—the internal logic of everything you see in the movie, not only the objects and the cars and so on, but even the language—have the same cohesive logic as if you went into some anthropological film and saw a culture that we’re unfamiliar with. You see things that you don’t quite understand, but you know it has meaning to the people in the film.”