The ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Black-And-White Version May Get Released On A Box Set Later This Year
By Jack Giroux/June 30, 2016 4:30 pm EST
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Miller believes this version of the movie is more “authentic and elemental”:
He described the cut as going “all the way out,” regarding the film’s post-apocalyptic aesthetic:
The best version of ‘Fury Road’ was what we called a ‘slash dupe’: a cheap, black-and-white version of the movie for the composer. Something about it seemed more authentic and elemental. So I asked Eric Whipp, the [‘Fury Road’] colorist, ‘can I see some scenes in black and white with quite a bit of contrast?’ They looked great. So I said to the guys at Warners, ‘can we put a black-and-white version on the DVD?’ There wasn’t enough room. [It’ll end up] on another version with commentary and other features.
Not listed in the brand new special features is an audio commentary from George Miller, which was missing from the first home video release of Mad Max: Fury Road. The new box set comes out in Germany on September 29th. There’s no word on a domestic release date, but since Miller was confident we’d see his black and white version this year, it’s safe to presume we’ll also see this double dip released in the States soon.
We spent a lot of time in DI (digital intermediate), and we had a very fine colorist, Eric Whipp. One thing I’ve noticed is that the default position for everyone is to de-saturate post-apocalyptic movies. There’s only two ways to go, make them black and white — the best version of this movie is black and white, but people reserve that for art movies now. The other version is to really go all-out on the color. The usual teal and orange thing? That’s all the colors we had to work with. The desert’s orange and the sky is teal, and we either could de-saturate it, or crank it up, to differentiate the movie. Plus, it can get really tiring watching this dull, de-saturated color, unless you go all the way out and make it black and white.
