Instruktøren bag blandt andet Max Max: Fury Road, George Miller, er en excentrisk herre, og det kan så sandelig mærkes på hans original valg af hovedrolleindehaver til netop den film, for det var virkelig ikke Tom Hardy, der endte med at få rollen.
I et interview med Vulture afslører Miller nemlig, at det i stedet var rapper Eminem han havde forestillet sig skulle spille Max:
"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."
Faktisk kontaktede Miller Eminem, og han var faktisk også interesseret, men for ikke at komme for langt væk fra sin familie krævede han at optagelserne til en film, der primært foregår i en ørken, skulle ske... fra hans hjemstat.
"We did get in touch with him, though that's as far as it went. Because we were going to shoot it in Australia at that point, and he simply didn't want to leave home. I think he had the impression that if he could do it out of his home state, then he'd be up for it."
Produktionen endte med at ske i Nordafrika, og med Hardy i hovedrollen, og det var måske meget godt? Eller hvad synes du?