20 Things You Didn't Know About Mad Max: Fury Road

14. Climate Change Scuppered Filming

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Australia’s barren, beautiful landscapes were as much a character in the first three Mad Max films as Rockatansky himself, so it stands to reason that George Miller was intent on revisiting some old locations for the reboot.

The arid plains of Broken Hill in New South Wales, which featured prominently in Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior, were earmarked for the Fury Road production and a 30-week shoot was set to begin in 2010, only for fate to deal Miller another tough hand:

“We were going to shoot in a place called Broken Hill in Australia out in the Outback, and it rained for the first time in 15 years. And what was the flat red earth of the wasteland was now literally a flower garden and the great salt lakes in the center of Australia had pelicans and frogs in them.”

Miller was forced to seek out other filming locations, pushing the start date back yet again.

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