#WHERE WAS MAD MAX FILMED MOVIE#
TV wildlife expert David Attenborough has made numerous films about both the animals and the topography of the country, while in 1980 a modest little movie starring a Namibian bushman, or San, in the Kalahari Desert, The Gods Must Be Crazy, exploded into an incredible worldwide success.Ī wacky comedy against a stunning panorama of sandy emptiness, it told the story of Xi and his tribe who were happy with their lot until a Coca-Cola bottle fell to earth from a plane, and they started to fight over it. Other stars have visited Namibia to work on films: Rupert Graves and Jason Connery for The Sheltering Desert in 1992 Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn for The Cell in 2000 Dennis Quaid and our own Miranda Otto for Flight of the Phoenix in 2004 Ian McKellen and Ruth Wilson for The Prisoner miniseries in 2009 and director Ron Fricke for Samsara in 2011.īut the world's movie-goers saw Namibia on the screen way before then.
As Pitt himself said: "Namibia is Africa's best-kept secret – this is, until we came here."
The Namibian government certainly helped the relationship with the country along by adopting an unprecedented level of security to stop journalists and paparazzi bothering its VIP visitors. Jolie and Brad Pitt have holidayed in Namibia regularly ever since and in 2006, she gave birth there to the couple's first biological child, Shiloh, who is a Namibian citizen. For her, it began a passionate love affair, not with Owen, but with the country. In 2002, Angelina Jolie visited the eastern region of Namibia, Gobabis, for her movie with Clive Owen, Beyond Borders, a story about a wealthy woman who is persuaded to visit Africa by a rebellious doctor doing relief work.
But they were not the first to discover the wonders of the country as a glorious movie setting. Most of the film crew simply could not believe so many astonishingly filmic locations lay so close to each other. Mad Max, filmed halfway up the coast outside Namibia's second city of Swakopmund, makes good use of the empty desert lands of Henties Bay, the dunes inland from Walvis Bay, the dry beds of the Swakop River, the Rossing mountain massif nearby and the salt farm at Paaltjies on a spit stretching over the ocean. The landscape there is no less spectacular either, with granite mountains and soaring passes, burnished ochre dunes and bleached white plains. To the north is the most fertile region, watered by rivers and with legions of wildlife dawdling around easily accessible waterholes. There is no shortage of wildlife either, with oryx, elephants, giraffes, lions, zebras and every other kind of animal regularly wandering into shot in search of water. Craggy mountain ranges often pull focus, while to the west lie the vast scrubby plains of the Kalahari Desert. Inland, up and down the country, are some of the largest sand dunes in the world, rolling as far as the eye can see. Over the past 100 years, the name has also come to refer to the rusting hulks of vessels that have been shipwrecked on the treacherous rocks off the coast. That coastline was named after the bones of whales and seals that once lay on the sands stripped bare by other animals, whalers, sealers and the sun. Where it flows into the ocean, around the Skeleton Coast, there are endless kilometres of deserted beach, interrupted only by massive colonies of barking seals and the brilliant blush of flamingos.
#WHERE WAS MAD MAX FILMED SERIES#
In addition, a series of beautiful lodges in comparatively isolated locations allow their guests to completely immerse themselves in those landscapes.Īll along the Atlantic coastline is a sea of red sand, the Namib Desert, the world's oldest desert and, without doubt, among the most beautiful. Namibia might only just be emerging as a tourism destination for people outside Africa, but it already has a sophisticated accommodation network. Namibia has some of the most incredible scenery in the world, with such little rainfall helping create a geography as dry and as seemingly barren as anything you could ever imagine, but visitors to the country can experience the place in extraordinary luxury.Įvery day spent exploring Namibia is like stepping on to a different movie set. If only they knew: refuge is actually always very close to hand. "Our world is fire and blood," says one of the characters in director Dr George Miller's post-apocalyptic epic where everyone is battling everyone else – and their surroundings – to survive. The crimson deserts, dramatic dunes, magnificent mountain ranges and breathtakingly stark horizons of the country dazzle just as much as anything Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult smash, grab and destroy.
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