Mad Max: Fury Road Almost Didn't Have One Of Its Best Characters Eddie Makuch Mad Max: Fury Road is regarded as a modern masterpiece, but it almost did not feature one of its most memorable and striking characters. Kyle Buchanan, who wrote the must-read oral history of Fury Road for The New York Times, shared another story on Twitter from his interviews about one of the characters that almost got axed. The studio, Warner Bros., was eager to cut the Doof Warrior character due to poor testing, director George Miller said. The character, who is seen in Fury Road strapped to the front of the Doof wagon shredding a double-neck guitar that can shoot fire, tested badly because the rough cut shown to Warner Bros. and test audiences contained only temporary music. "Whenever the Doof Warrior played in the test screening, it was the same riff, so it got annoying," Miller said. Here’s something alarming: WB wanted the Doof Warrior cut from FURY ROAD!“The Doof Warrior tested really badly at first,” Miller told me. “We had temp music, and whenever the Doof Warrior played in the test screening, it was the same riff, so it got annoying.” pic.twitter.com/ndSdOvxD9c — Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 15, 2020 Some people at Warner Bros. said, "'Oh, we've got to drop the Doof Warrior,'" Miller recalls. But the Australian director defended the character and got the studio onboard once they hired Junkie XL to do the music. "He became one of the most popular characters in the film," Miller said. Continue Reading at GameSpot https://ift.tt/eA8V8J