20 Things You Didn't Know About Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Fury Road Was Drawn - Not Written
One good thing about the unfortunate delays that threatened to completely derail Fury Road on several occasions was that they afforded Miller plenty of time to plan out his story.
Plan it he surely did, and in extraordinary detail, but he didn’t do anything silly like write a script. Not for a while anyway.
Instead the film was conceived and planned almost entirely via the use of storyboards, with Miller enlisting the help of comic book artist Brendan McCarthy to share the burden. All in all, close to 1,500 storyboards featuring nigh-on 3,500 panels were created to plan in advance virtually every shot in the film and cobble the action sequences together into a coherent whole.
The film’s actors were given portfolios containing hundreds of pages of bound storyboards instead of scripts ahead of the film’s production, which meant no one had to strain themselves to learn hundreds of lines because…