Brendan McCarthy

Brendan McCarthy discusses how he landed the gig of scripting explosive action film Mad Max: Fury Road with director George Miller. He also describes his time on the set in Africa’s Namibia desert, a suitably sun-scorched stand-in for the post-apocalyptic...

By BBC Reporter Steven McKenzie
British comic book artist and writer Brendan McCarthy started out as a Mad Max fan but almost 30 years later he has co-written Fury Road, the new instalment of one of cinema’s best-known franchises.
The first three Mad Max films had Mel Gibson as the leading man...

By Douglas Wolk of the Washington Post
Between 1978 and 1990, two Brits — writer Peter Milligan and artist Brendan McCarthy — collaborated on a string of bizarre and wonderful comics, most of which are collected in this oversize volume, “The Best of Milligan & McCarthy.”...

By Karl Keily of Comic Book Resources
CBR News: Brendan, how exactly did you come to be involved with “Mad Max: Fury Road” and what’s the journey been like to get it to the screen?
Brendan McCarthy: I used to write to George Miller when I was much younger, as I was totally enthralled by “Mad Max 2: Road Warrior.” It absolutely blew me away when I saw it for the first time in 1981. It mangled my mind — it was “The Matrix” for a...