I modelled the system in AutoCAD, and from this file, the plates and components were waterjet cut.
So it obviously looked intimidating, but how did it actually drive? Engineer Antony Natoli and mechanic Mark McKinley designed a system so the two engines sat in a side by side arrangement and were connected to the transmission. I'll use a the GigaHorse for example. The Gigahorse was a stacked pair of Cadillac bodies, powered by a pair of Chevy 502 engines. Our vehicles had to look amazing, but beyond that, they also had to drive safely at speed! What were some of the specific challenges you faced with the film?Ī specific challenge designing the vehicles was achieving aesthetic qualities as well as functionality. If I wasn't at the computer drawing, I was in the workshop seeing the vehicles take shape, being test-driven, and completed with scenic finishes and decals. The drawings allowed us to discuss how everyone's work combined – set decoration, mechanics, steel, and SFX. I was in charge of the art department's drawings, illustrations and documentation, ensuring they contained relevant information. The vehicles were built in a workshop next to the art department and set decoration, so we could prowl around them any time. Supervising art director Charlie Revai also supplied me with information and his thoughts, such as logistics and creative decisions that he had developed. The production designer on Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson – instructed me on specific vehicle and set requirements by providing me with his sketches and ideas. So how did you guys build these incredible vehicles? How'd they pull this off? Jacinta Leong explains, providing us with a detailed account of her role in turning Miller's fever dream into a reality, and naming many of the other people whose brilliance was poured into this single, immensely satisfying chase film. Over 150 real cars were used in George Miller's latest Max incarnation, creating a literally moving spectacle of vehicular mutation and mayhem. When Imortan Joe realizes he's been duped, he and his army of soldiers give chase in their "tricked-out nightmare doomcars," as Slate's Dan Kois so aptly put it, and the film is off and burning across the desert, one of the great extended chase scenes in cinematic history. Only it turns out Furiosa has other plans-she's saving a collection of beautiful young women, Joe's "wives," and taking them to the Green Place, the last remaining lush location on Earth.
Joe's most famous servant, Furiosa (Charlize Theron, such a bad ass, see the end of this piece for more), is sent in a convoy with Joe's minions to fetch fuel, a prized mission that Nux (Nicholas Hoult) is desperate to join, and does so with Max lashed to a pole on the front of his car (pictured above), serving as his blood pump to keep Nux's energy up. The film opens with Max's capture by the white-painted lunatics who serve Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne, the man who played Toecutter in the original film).
The story in short is this Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) is a former lawmen with serious PTSD and a preference for being alone. Max goes gear for gear and wreck for wreck with Fast & Furious 7, and Leong was among the many crucial crew members who helped turn director George Miller's meticulously realized, sun-baked and water deprived future hell into reality. How do you fuse two Cadillac bodies together, install two huge engines, and actually make the thing not only drive, but serve as one of the main vehicles in a film that's essentially one long car chase? This was one of the many challenges facing Jacinta Leong, art director on Mad Max: Fury Road, one of the most kinetic, relentless action movies in years.
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