Eight years later, the duo produced Mad Max, working with first-time screenwriter James McCausland (who appears in the film as the bearded man in an apron in front of the diner). Having a career as a stunt performer can be extremely dangerous though, with stunt performers regularly being injured or even dying. This was due to a hydraulic system, which had pushed her an inch or two too far. "He was such a character, he was such an iconic part of Mad Max. Jackson ended up having serious and life-changing injuries to her back, neck, and shoulder. However, Variety magazine praised the directorial debut by Miller. He has become tetraplegic, which essentially means that he is paralyzed in both his legs, as well as his arms. Starring both Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett, it's not as if the film was lacking when it came to it's actors, it was simply just a bad movie. Having been a stunt double for Charlize Theron on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, Jackson received a lot of love from both Theron and Jovovich, as well as other people she formerly had worked with. So he hired one: James McCausland, the Melbourne finance editor of The Australian, with whom Miller had previously bonded at a party as a fellow film buff. Max throws Johnny a hacksaw, leaving him the choice of sawing through either the handcuffs or his ankle in order to escape. A stunt performer has many hats, from doubling for a lead character, to doing background work, to being the unnamed actor who randomly does eighteen stunt tricks. When the museum closed, the car went to a collection in the Dezer Museum in Miami, Florida. The more these stunt performers do stunts, the more times they are putting themselves in danger, so it's no wonder that injuries happen as often as they do. Max Aspin, the stunt man whose daring moves were immortalised in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, has died. He also witnessed many car accidents growing up in rural Queensland and lost at least three friends to accidents as a teenager.[4]. Thankfully, the stuntman was apparently fine. At Toecutter's insistence, Johnny throws a match into the wreck of the ute, igniting the petrol and burning Goose alive. The film also won the Special Jury Award at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival. He was Jet Li's stunt double in the film. Many of the car chase scenes for Mad Max were filmed near the town of Little River, northeast of Geelong. Max arrives to a horrifying sight: Sprog is instantly killed, while a badly-injured but alive Jessie lies comatose in a hospital ICU. After the motorbike then locks up at high speed and highsides, a dazed but surprisingly-uninjured Goose borrows a ute to haul his bike back to the MFP. They flee to a remote farm owned by an elderly friend named May Swaisey. Olivia Jackson, Stunts: Mad Max: Fury Road. [8] Miller described the whole experience as "guerrilla filmmaking", where the crew would close roads without filming permits, not use walkie-talkies because their frequency coincided with the police radio, and after filming was done Miller and Kennedy would even sweep down the roads. The duo produced a short film, Violence in the Cinema, Part 1, which was screened at a number of film festivals and won several awards. Daisy Dumas is a writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action thriller film directed by George Miller, produced by Byron Kennedy, and starring Mel Gibson as "Mad" Max Rockatansky, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, and Roger Ward.James McCausland and Miller wrote the screenplay from a story by Miller and Kennedy. They trap a young couple in a car, destroy the car, and rape the couple. Jeremy Fitzgerald is high in demand as stuntman, who has been in movies such as Logan, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Spider- Man 3. No one really knows why his plane ended up in the ocean. Stunt performers rarely receive the recognition that they deserve. Gibson's friend and classmate Steve Bisley, who worked with him in his only screen role, 1976's Summer City, became Max's partner Jim Goose.