Last year’s flame-throwing guitar montage Mad Max: Fury Road grossed $378m and won six Oscars, but was that enough to satisfy director George Miller? No it was not. “The best version of this movie is black and white,” he lamented before an audience of critics at a Q&A last May, “but people reserve that for art movies now.” Yes: were it not for studio intervention, Miller would’ve seen to it that the fourth entry in Australia’s premiere post-apocalyptic film franchise shared a colour palette with such latter-day monochrome romps as Farsi vampire western A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and Polish nun travelogue Ida.
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Today, Miller’s dream can be a reality, as iTunes users everywhere are given a choice between the theatrical version of Mad Max: Fury Road and its desaturated cousin, the Black & Chrome Edition. An experience previously available only to those with a copy of the film on DVD and access to their TV’s colour settings, the latter transforms Miller’s opus into something more grand, grainy and self-consciously baroque, by stripping the film of its signature oranges and blues. As he notes in an introductory video, “some scenes in particular play a lot better, and some, there’s information we got from the colour that’s missing,” making this less a superior version of the film, and more an illuminating counterpoint to the one we saw in cinemas.
Hardcore cinephiles still bemoan the rise of home viewing, but DVD, Blu-ray and streaming have long provided space for cinematic oddities like this one that might otherwise have languished in studio store cupboards. Earlier this year, Brian De Palma took the unprecedented step of endorsing an online fan edit of his poorly received 1992 film Raising Cain as his preferred director’s cut, even convincing distributor Scream Factory to include it on the official Blu-ray. Having never been happy with the version of the film that made it to cinemas, he joined Miller in seeking satisfaction on home video.
Also eager to explore an assortment of cinematic what-ifs is the absurdly active “retired” director Steven Soderbergh, whose personal website Extension 765 has become something of a Big Yellow storage centre for his re-edits of such hallowed classics as Psycho, Raiders Of The Lost Ark and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The latter was recently removed from the site after a claim by the Kubrick estate, but inevitably lives on among fans. The genie of cinematic miscellany won’t go so easily back in the bottle.
Filmmaking is, if nothing else, a collaborative process. Even filmmakers with reputations of an auteur have to answer to the folks who pay for their budget. Case in point - director George Miller wanted to create Mad Max: Fury Road as a black-and-white film, but Warner Brothers put the kibosh on that idea. Miller then went the opposite direction, with a supersaturated vision that took the orange and teal aesthetic to all new levels, but he always had a mind to treat audiences with his original vision someday.
With the 'Black and Chrome' edition of the film hitting Blu-Ray in Germany in September, it was clear there was a good chance that North American audiences would also see the new version. It now looks like we're not going to have to wait much longer.
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Via ComingSoon.net, we now have an official release date for the Mad Max: Black and Chrome two-film, DVD and Blu-Ray collection. It will be hitting U.S. retail shelves on December 6th, 2016, just in time for the holidays. In addition to the two versions of the film, the two-disc set will include a 'special introductory piece by George Miller describing his vision.'
Alongside the single release, Warner Bros is releasing a new compilation set of all four Mad Max films (including the 'Black & Chrome' Edition) with the moniker Mad Max High-Octane Collection.
In addition to Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (4K-Ultra HD and UV Digital versions included), the collection will include the following, special features:
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Road War – In 1982, the world was blindsided by George Miller’s masterpiece of apocalyptic destruction: The Road Warrior. For the first time ever George Miller, Terry Hayes and star Mel Gibson tell the story of the car-crushing production that redefined action cinema forever.
Madness of Max – The previously released Mad Max (1979) documentary is a feature-length documentary on the making of arguably the most influential movie of the past thirty years. With over forty cast-and-crew interviews, hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and never-before-seen film footage of the shoot, this is, without a doubt, the last word on Mad Max (1979). Interviews include: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward, Joanne Samuel, David Eggby, Jon Dowding and many more. From the Producers to the Bike Designers to the Traffic Stoppers, this is the story of how Mad Max was made.
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Hopefully, these collections will give fans of Mr. Rockatansky's film's something to enjoy whilst daydreaming about the possibility of a follow-up to Fury Road. Stay tuned to Screen Rant for updates on Mad Max as they hit!
Mad Max: Black & Chrome and the Mad Max High Octane Collection will be available in DVD and Blu-Ray formats on December 6th, 2016
Source: ComingSoon.net
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