NEW YORK — When it was time to start making “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” production designer Colin Gibson went to a garage in Australia to find some old friends.
It had been years since 2015’s “Fury Road” wrapped production. Many of the vehicles seen in the film had been blown up or left to rust in Namibia. But a dozen of them — the “dirty dozen,” Gibson calls them — had been put in storage, including the War Rig, Gigahorse and Duff Wagon.
“They did need a fair amount of cleaning up,” Gibson says a little wistfully. “A lot of the fuel had turned to jelly and the tires sink. And it all seemed so much sadder than you remember.”
Returning to the world of “Mad Max” meant resurrecting the motorized army of “Fury Road,” getting it back into running condition and building an entire new fleet of gas-guzzling, mutant machines of apocalyptic doom.
As terrific as the cast of “Furiosa” is, including Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, let’s be real. The true stars of any “Mad Max” movie are the vehicles. The characters and actors of “Mad Max” may come and go across the saga’s 45 years, but the marauding mechanized horde keeps chugging.
