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• Short-listed for Hugo Award (Related Book) 2023

Overview

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road--with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New York Times, Kyle Buchanan. It won six Oscars and has been hailed as the greatest action film ever, but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen... or that anybody survived the production. The story of this modern classic spanned nearly two decades of wild obstacles as visionary director George Miller tried to mount one of the most difficult shoots in Hollywood history. Production stalled several times, stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and Miller's crew engineered death-defying action scenes that were among the most dangerous ever committed to film. Even accomplished Hollywood figures are flummoxed by the accomplishment: As the director Steven Soderbergh has said, I don't understand how they're not still shooting that film, and I don't understand how hundreds of people aren't dead. Kyle Buchanan takes readers through every step of that moviemaking experience in vivid detail, from Fury Road's unexpected origins through its outlandish casting process to the big-studio battles that nearly mutilated a masterpiece. But he takes the deepest dive in reporting the astonishing facts behind a shoot so unconventional that the film's fantasy world began to bleed into the real lives of its cast and crew. As they fought and endured in a wasteland of their own, the only way forward was to have faith in their director's mad vision. But how could Miller persevere when almost everything seemed to be stacked against him? With hundreds of exclusive interviews and details about the making of Fury Road, readers will be left with one undeniable conclusion: There has never been a movie so drenched in sweat, so forged by fire, and so epic in scope. Read by Fred Berman, Aspen Vincent, Dan Bittner, Derek Perkins, Eva Kaminsky, Fiona Hardingham, Gary Furlong, George Newbern, Ione Butler, Jason Culp, Jeff Gurner, Katherine Littrell, Leon Nixon, Lisa Flanagan, Malk Williams, Michael Crouch, Polly Lee, Ralph Lister, Robin Miles, Samuel Roukin, and Will M. Watt Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Fred Berman is a five-time winner of the AudioFile Earphone Award for Audiobook Narration and the recipient of the 2013 Audie Award for narration in Spy the Lie. He has read a number of audiobooks for young listeners, including Judy Blume's Soupy Saturdays with The Pain & The Great One and Andrew Clements's The Last Holiday Concert. He has also narrated the audiobooks for Robert Kirkman's popular series, The Walking Dead. Berman is an accomplished actor of both the stage and screen as well, performing on Broadway as Timon in The Lion King and off-Broadway in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. On television, Berman has had roles on NBC's hit series Smash as well as All My Children and Law and Order. He lives in New York City. Dan Bittner has narrated dozens of audio books and has starred on stage and on the screen, in movies such as Men in Black, Adventureland, and the Producers: The Movie Musical. He has also appeared onstage as Macbeth Malcolm and Sherlock Holmes in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has narrated popular audio books such as The Eleventh Plague, Hero, and Forever. Read by Derek Perkins. Eva Kaminsky is a narrator and actor based in New York City. A 2014 Audie nominee, she has recorded approximately 150 audiobooks in genres ranging from romance to mysteries and children's stories. She can also be heard on many television and radio ads, and is currently the voice for Intel's Real Sense line. Her film and television credits include Billions, Blindspot, Mysteries of Laura, Chicago Med, and Law & Order: SVU. Eva has performed on stage both on and Off-Broadway as well as around the country, and feels very lucky to get to tell stories in so many different mediums. Fiona Hardingham is a British-born actress, singer, voice-over artist, and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. She earned a BA honors degree in performing arts from Middlesex University, London, and also studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Gary Furlong grew up in Wexford, Ireland. Throughout his life he has worn many a hat: He has worked as a teacher in Niigata, Japan; a puppeteer in Prague; an improv artist in Memphis, Tennessee; and as a singer and actor all over Ireland. He started narrating audiobooks in late 2015 and hasn't looked back. Gary has narrated over fifty books spanning various genres. The recipient of an AudioFile Earphones Award, he specializes in accents and dialect, with fluency in Irish, British RP, and Standard American. He now lives in Texas with his wife and their golden retriever called Gansey, which means Sweater in Irish Gaelic. George Newbern's film credits include Father of the Bride 1 and 2, Adventures in Babysitting, and Dadnapped. He has guest starred on many television series, including Scandal, The Mentalist, Private Practice, CSI: Miami, and Numb3rs. Ione Butler is an actress, speaker, and entrepreneur who founded Uplifting Content, a digital media platform followed by over 1.5 million people globally. She studied at two prestigious drama schools in the UK before moving to Los Angeles in 2012. Uplifting Stories is her first book. She also produces a weekly podcast, and continues to work on film, TV, and voice-over projects while building and developing her brand. Ione can often be found at music and art festivals with friends, spending time in nature, and traveling the world for work and fun. Jason Culp has been featured on television in Days of Our Lives and General Hospital and in the cult film Skinheads. His roles in regional theater include Trigorin in The Seagull. He has been an audiobook performer for 13 years. He lives in New York City and is currently finishing work on a memoir. Jeff Gurner is a voice, stage and screen actor. He has recorded hundreds of radio and television commercials, video games, and is an award winning audiobook narrator. He is best known for his narration of Patrick Lee and to Karen Miller's The Star Wars Clone Wars series and works by Mark Sullivan and Terry Francona. AudioFile magazine praised Jeff''s deep, compelling voice and well-acted presentation and awarded him a 2006 AudioFile Earphones Award for Jennifer Egan's The Keep. Gurner's theater credits include The Lion King on Broadway, Guys and Dolls, Harold and Maude: The Musical, and A Christmas Story. Television credits include The Good Wife, Mercy, and Law & Order. Katherine Littrell is a Sydney-based audiobook narrator who studied English literature at Bryn Mawr College. She has lived in the United States and the UK, but is glad to be back home in Australia, where she enjoys knitting, making furniture, and talking out loud to herself in small spaces. Leon Nixon is a Los Angeles based voice actor who has narrated audiobook titles in a wide range of genres, including crime, mystery, science fiction, romance, and nonfiction. Classically trained as an actor and improviser, he can also be found performing on stage. Lisa Flanagan is an award-winning audiobook narrator, voice actor, director, improviser, and classical soprano based in New York City. Her voice-over work includes animation, video games, and commercials. Lisa has received multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Voice Arts Awards, including Best Audiobook Narration, Children's for Disney-Pixar's WALL-E. Malk Williams is a voice talent and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. Michael Crouch is an Audie Award-winning actor based in New York City. His audiobook narration has earned multiple Earphones Awards from AudioFile and Best of the Year accolades from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. He can also be heard on national commercials, cartoons, and video games. Polly Lee is the narrator of several audiobooks for both adults and children, including In My Shoes, Mice, and Sinful in Satin. Lee has a BA in Theatre Studies from London University, and an MFA in acting from The New School. She was raised in London, England, and now lives in New York City. Ralph Lister is an actor, voice actor, and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has worked in London and the US. His voice and character work can be heard in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and 13 Going On 30. He lives in Los Angeles. Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has won several Audie Awards and many Earphones Awards and AudioFile Best of the Year accolades. Samuel Roukin, Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a British film and stage actor who is best known for his role as Snatcher in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. He has also appeared in Bright Star and Miss Austin Regrets. Will Watt is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting. Coming soon...

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