‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Will Finally Be Released in Black and White… in Germany

One of the most celebrated action movies of all time still hasn’t been released in America the way the director actually likes it. And while many filmmakers eventually release director’s cuts of their movies with additional footage or different endings, George Miller mostly just has one thing he’d like to change about his Oscar-winning post-apocalyptic car chase movie Mad Max: Fury Road. He wants it to be in black and white.

Of course, audiences who own the Mad Max: Fury Road Blu-ray can simply fiddle with the settings on their televisions and desaturate all the color out of George Miller’s movie. That’ll certainly give you the gist of it, but there’s more to the process of converting a movie to a completely different color scheme than that. The entire film would need to be tweaked, shot by shot, to correctly make the most of the black and white aesthetic. 

The American home video release of Mad Max: Fury Road came out with the so-called “Black and Chrome” special feature, but the good news is it is finally on its way. 

The bad news is, it’s only on its way to Germany, as Empire pointed out this weekend.

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Actually, the REALLY bad news – unless you’re German, of course – is that the German version of the disc contains hours of special features on top of the “Black and Chrome” edition of Mad Max: Fury Road. And while normally these sorts of sets do find their way to America eventually, it’s hardly a guarantee. Certain special features can often be exclusive to a particular region and then never find their way to any of the others. Just try to find that awesome Brian Blessed commentary track for Flash Gordon on a Region 1 release sometime. I dare you.

Still, fan interest in an official black and white rendition of Mad Max: Fury Road is furiously high, and we suspect that someone at Warner Bros. is paying attention to the collective annoyance being spread across the internet about the (apparently) exclusively German release of a film the whole world wants to see.

Let’s just hope that Warner Bros. does something about this. Let’s just hope they are shiny and chrome.

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William Bibbiani (everyone calls him ‘Bibbs’) is Crave’s film content editor and critic. You can hear him every week on The B-Movies Podcast and Canceled Too Soon, and watch him on the weekly YouTube series Most Craved, Rapid Reviews and What the Flick. Follow his rantings on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

 

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