If you were hoping that Furiosa would get a black and white release just like Mad Max: Fury Road, you’re in luck.
Both Fury Road and Furiosa are quite colourful films, but there might be some of you out there that wish colours didn’t exist, for some strange reason. Or maybe you just like the way old black and white films looked, and wished more films opted to forgo colour for reasons other than just a narrative gimmick. Fury Road did actually receive a black and white version following its initial release, technically referred to as the Black & Chrome Edition (a title that goes pretty hard honestly), and now it seems like Furiosa is set to get a similar treatment.
Director George Miller recently made an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, talking about all things Furiosa and more, where he confirmed that his latest Mad Max outing would too be receiving a black and white cut. This time he’s called it “Tinted Black and Chrome” and it sounds like it shouldn’t be too far out. “We’ve done it already. It’s the last thing I did on this film, and I call it Tinted Black and Chrome. It’s really interesting, I’m still trying to demystify why the black-and-white, for me, has something more elemental to it. I still can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s not because they look like old black-and-white movies, it’s something else. It’s like, if we took a picture of ourselves right now, it might look a little more dramatic if it’s in black and white.”
