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 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

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 Books have a longer shelf life than movies

40:49 Terry’s next project

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