10 Movies That Needed Reshoots For INSANE Reasons
5. It Had No Beginning Or Ending - Mad Max: Fury Road
It's frankly astonishing that Mad Max: Fury Road turned out to be the massive, Oscar-winning success that it was, given how close to the brink of disaster its production came.
Fury Road was shot in the second half of 2012, with the production quickly falling under schedule and over budget, prompting Warner Bros. to dispatch an executive to the set to keep things on track.
The executive informed director George Miller in no uncertain terms that shooting would finish on December 8th of that year regardless of whether everything was shot, and indeed, principal photography concluded without any scenes in the Citadel being filmed.
The Citadel is ultimately Fury Road's most prominent location, and most crucially is a focal setting for the beginning and ending scenes of the film.
And so, when the film initially "wrapped," Miller was left with an editorial mess which producer Doug Mitchell called "incomprehensible."
However, a changing of the guard at Warner Bros. saw Miller eventually being granted permission to resume production and shoot the Citadel scenes in late 2013, almost an entire year after the main shoot ended.
Considering how Fury Road turned out, it's fair to say that the juice was certainly worth the hard squeeze.