In this episode of Psycho-Cinematic, writer Terry Hayes sits down with Vic to talk about "Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior" (1981) and "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985) as well as his new book "The Year of the Locust" which is now available.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:40 Audience retention with long movies and books
2:38 Terry’s background
4:50 How Terry landed Mad Max 2
8:21 The quality difference between Mad Max and Mad Max 2
11:07 Approaches to writing movies
13:07 Writing a movie with almost no dialogue
16:45 Australian gun control in the context of Mad Max
19:30 Terry Hayes on encountering Max’s interceptor
20:57 Writing large scale action sequences
23:54 On set of Mad Max 2
24:40 Did Terry get offered to write the new Mad Max Movies?
26:09 Creative writing
28:37 Doing research for your writing
31:22 Terry’s horrific pandemic story
37:00 Why Terry prefers writing books instead of movies
40:49 Terry’s next project
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