“We're Speed-Reading Now”: George Miller Says ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Has Twice The Cuts Of ‘The Road Warrior’

With a quarter-century of rewrites, cast replacements and location shifts spent knocking around the brain of director George Miller, it’s still a fair worry whether “Mad Max: Fury Road” can match the same manic energy and apocalyptic tone of the series’ previous films. Embargo prevents us from an in-depth reaction until next week, but rest assured that the end result hits  damn near close. A duo of road warriors played by Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron lead a rampaging tale of revenge, redemption and auto-based chaos, but during a recent LA press conference for the film, Miller acknowledged that he faced a very different cinematic landscape with his fourth 'Mad Max' installment.

“If we were going to go back into [that] world, you sure as hell couldn't do what you did 30 years ago,” Miller said. “It had to be uniquely familiar —like visiting [your] hometown but seeing it through new eyes. Everything had changed in 30 years —the world had changed, cinema had changed, and...