September 2024

Furiosa: Raising Hell Down Under

This excerpt is from the full story that appears in the September 2024 issue of American Cinematographer magazine. Unit stills by Jasin Boland, SMPSP, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Before heading into preproduction on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, cinematographer Simon Duggan, ASC, ACS met with director George Mil-ler for a mere 30 minutes to get a feel for how they might work together. Duggan would be filling the shoes of John Seale, ASC, ACS — whose pioneering efforts on the series’ prior installment, Mad Max: Fury Road (AC June ’15), had earned Academy Award and ASC Award nominations — and he came highly recommended by Fury Road 1st AD P.J. Voeten, who had worked with all three filmmakers on a variety of Australian productions....more