#Fury Road, Ranked From Weirdest To Potentially Awesome

You read that right — at one point, Marshall Mathers, AKA Eminem, was among the names thrown around for the role of Max. The lead storyboard artist for “Fury Road” brought it up, and both Miller and production and development executive Petrina Hull confirmed the story. Miller explained:

“He’d done ‘8 Mile,’ and I found that really interesting — I thought, He’s got that quality. We’d done the first ‘Happy Feet’ with the late Brittany Murphy, and she had done ‘8 Mile,’ so I asked her what he was like and would this be something really interesting for him? She had no reservations about saying what a wonderful talent he is.”

While they got in touch with Eminem, discussions didn’t go very far because of his unwillingness to leave the comforts of home. He was willing to shoot somewhere more local, but at the time “Fury Road” was planned to film in Australia. Later, the shooting location was moved for Namibia, another location a bit too different from Detroit for Eminem to be comfortable. Sexton shared his sentiments about the avoided casting, which weren’t particularly kind towards Eminem: 

“I’m kind of glad it didn’t happen. Eminem, really? Whole different bent there. And the feminist story behind ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ might have taken a bit of a hammering if he’d played the role.”

Eminem has come under fire over the years for misogynistic lyrics and attitudes, so Sexton has a point. I also think that while Eminem did a fantastic job basically playing himself in “8 Mile,” it would be a bit of a stretch for him to take on the silent cool of someone like Max.