Massive lay-offs caused the heavy industry to shut down. The Australian economy collapsed, companies filed bankruptcy one after another. Italy and Spain have been taken over by the military. In an attempt to save the economy and conserve fuel - martial laws have been announced all across the world. The price of gold skyrocketed along with the inflation. The West's seven biggest oil companies led by Exxon (The 7 Sisters Petroleum - as seen on the tanker in Mad Max 2) have immediately announced they would no longer be able to fulfill their supply contracts, leading to their subsequent bankruptcy. North West and Trans-Persian pipelines have been destroyed shortly after. Prices of oil doubled, then quadrupled and quadrupled again. The oil fields were set ablaze and oil export halted almost immediately. The war between Iran and Saudi Arabia left the Persian Gulf devastated in just two days. "Law and order, like every other aspect of the Western society have been swept away - put to the torch one early morning when Iranian troops trying to export revolution, struck deep into the heart of Saudi Arabia". Persian Gulf War The Persian Gulf War (Pre- Mad Max) The first Mad Max is a movie set years after the beginning of that conflict with the fabric of society on the brink of complete disintegration.Īccording to the dates provided by production documents and movies themselves, the original trilogy starts in mid 1980's and ends in 2005. He speculatively turned that conflict into a war in the Persian Gulf which would have thrown the entire world into chaos that would eventually impact Australia. He based it on the 1979 oil crisis that was caused by the Iranian revolution. 1983).Īfter the release of Mad Max, Terry Hayes was hired to flesh out the complete backstory for the first and the second Mad Max film he started working on. It is reflected in hidden dates in the movie (December 6th, 1984, est. The first movie was set some odd 10 years after the 1973 oil crisis, without any backstory written by the creators at first. Set 15 years after Mad Max 2 (according to an interview with the scriptwriter Terry Hayes.In the script, this date was originally November 8th, 2005. September 10th 199?: the day Captain Walker left The Crack In The Earth along with other adults from the crashed Boeing 747 in search of civilization.Set three years after Mad Max (according to the official production document called the Preamble).Set 'A few years from now (from 1979)' Few = 2-5 years.1983" seen on the MFP plate at the gates of Halls Of Justice (not visible in the movie, info retrieved from a movie prop)
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