And in Germany, the annual Wacken Festival, held in the eponymous town in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, which includes a Mad Max tribute post-apocalyptic world and stage set-up called Wasteland, including a Herr Max Bavarian beer garden, has also been scrapped.įor Adrian Bennett, whose museum features the bizarre vehicles from the movie and memorabilia, even including the fake, though still grisly, digit lopped-off a villain by a sharpened boomerang, the postponement of the Silverton event is bittersweet. It, too, has been cancelled this year due to COVID-19. The annual Wasteland Weekend in Edwards, California, in the suitably barren Mojave Desert, has held this Mad Max tribute event since 2010 where participants dress up as characters from the films. Aficionados of Mad Max, including the English-born Adrian Bennett, regard Mad Max 2 as the best film of the long-running, four-movie franchise (with a fifth instalment reputedly in the works).Ĭertainly, these are not the best of times for those mad for Mad Max. Mad as it may seem, not even Max Rockatansky (the Road Warrior's "real" name) can defeat COVID-19.Ī big reason for the postponement is so that the legion of overseas Mad Max 2 fans, including those from the US, UK, Germany and, yes, Japan, can make it to Silverton. But thanks to the pandemic, an anniversary event has had to be postponed from early next year until 2022. It's now almost 40 years since Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, directed by George Miller, was shot in stark desert country surrounding the town.
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