By Keir Beck
This post is purely dedicated to the rigs of Mad Max: Fury Road. The film shot in the Namibia in the Namib Desert, Cape Town South Africa and Sydney Australia over a period of two years between 2012 in 2013.
The Concept was the fly two performers on rollerblades down the half pipe which was full of obstacles. This represented in the film a vertical environment where the performer was wearing hover boots.
This rig was inspired by studying Evil Knievel’s best bike crashes. Here is a breakdown of how the rig worked with what gear we had at the time. I spent weeks watching motor bike crashes to understand how things can go wrong at in the final moments of landing a...
This rig was one of the more challenging rigs I have been involved with, as the stunt was done from real tower cranes. The big challenge was that the stunt had to be done as an “all in one.” Below is a video of the behind the scenes and a...
Here we take a look at how the performers were set on fire whilst rigged, take a look at how the 30m long cargo net was suspended and how 40 performers were able to climb safely take after take....