George Miller said this film's script was already complete before Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) was filmed, "In order to tell that story cohesively, we had to know everything that happened in the time before, so we wrote a story about Furiosa from the time she was taken as a child, as she refers to in Fury Road, until she became the Imperator Furiosa. That ended up as a full screenplay, with concept art and so on. And the actors, the designers, and all the crew got the screenplay of that before shooting Fury Road."
A 15-minute action sequence in the film, known during production as "Stairway to Nowhere," the sequence marks a turning point for Furiosa. It took 78 days to shoot with close to 200 some people working on it daily. George Miller did extensive storyboarding for the sequence, until he found the right way to do it. Anya Taylor Joy revealed,"George and I would have these big conversations about why this particular set piece was so long. It's because you see an accumulation of skills over the course of a battle, and that's very important for understanding how resourceful Furiosa is, but also her grit. It's the longest sequence any of us ever shot. On the day we finished, everybody got a 'Stairway To Nowhere' wine!"
Anya Taylor-Joy doesn't have a driving license, despite learning to do a J-turn on her first day of stunt school.
Filmed in New South Wales, Australia. All Mad Max movies have been filmed in Australia, with the exception of Fury Road (2015), when record rain falls transformed the normally arid desert areas into lush green growth areas. Fury Road was filmed in Namibia.
Anya Taylor-Joy only has about 30 lines of dialogue in the film. Speaking to the New York Times, Taylor-Joy said that she would often spend months on set without having spoken one line, explaining, "I've never been more alone than making that movie. I don't want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard. I do want to 100% preface this by saying I love George and if you're going to do something like this, you want to be in the hands of someone like George Miller. But he had a very, very strict idea of what Furiosa's war face looked like, and that only allowed me my eyes for a large portion of the movie. It was very much 'mouth closed, no emotion, speak with your eyes.' That's it, that's all you have." She added, "there's one scream in that movie, and I am not joking when I tell you that I fought for that scream for 3 months. With George it's a long game." Miller revealed the reason for Furiosa having little dialogue was simple - for him, movies should be fast. He believes that dialogue slows them down.