What a day! What a lovely day! What a lovely day indeed it is whenever we get any news about the extremely lovely Mad Max: Fury Road. Director George Miller has been mumbling hints about a black-and-white edition of his extraordinary 2015 post-apocalyptic chase-a-thon for some time, and we had effective confirmation a couple of months ago, but now it’s official.
Two new Blu-ray releases are being packaged up. The first, for true Max Rockatansky completists, is entitled the Mad Max High Octane Collection and brings together all four films in the Mad Max series – Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – into one juicy package.
The collection also includes the “black-and-chrome” edition of Fury Road, which was carefully colour-calibrated by Miller himself (it’s not quite the same effect as turning the contrast down on your telly), plus over five hours of bonus content, including a feature-length doc on the original film.
There’s also the slimmer Fury Road: Two Film Collection which has the latest film and its monochromatic alternate edition, including a special introduction from Miller himself, explaining his vision.
Both Blu-ray packages, shiny and chrome, arrive in the US on 25 October. While there’s no confirmation for those of us on this side of the pond, it’ll surely reach us before we are awaited in Valhalla.