Cinematographer Simon Duggan discusses the challenges in ensuring visual continuity for the prequel to the operatic road warrior saga Mad Max: Fury Road.
Director George Miller had been plotting a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road for some time and even approached original cinematographer John Seale to shoot it. Seale had been nominated for work on the 2015 film but, approaching 80 when Miller finally got around to making it, Seale decided to pass.
The baton went to fellow Antipodean DP Simon Duggan, a New Zealander who has shot Alex Proyas’ I, Robot, Duncan Jones’ Warcraft and Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge.
“I knew that George had been developing both Fury Road and a prequel story for many years and had originally planned to shoot both films back to back,” Duggan tells IBC365...
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