Mad Max (franchise) for 2015's "Fury Road". The series features a few recurring cast members in different roles. Bruce Spence played different aviators in two of the films, first the Gyro Captain in "Mad Max 2" and then Jedediah the Pilot in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome". Hugh Keays-Byrne has taken antagonist roles twice: he played Toecutter in "Mad Max" and Immortan Joe in "Mad Max: Fury Road". Max Fairchild appeared as Benno Swaisey in "Mad Max" and as "Broken Victim" of the Humungus's gang in "Mad Max 2". Many licensed products are based on the "Mad Max" franchise. Products include novels, comic books,
Mad Max the meager, terse dialogue too unappealing. Casting director Mitch Mathews invited for "Mad Max" a class of recent National Institute of Dramatic Art graduates, specifically asking a NIDA teacher for "spunky young guys". Among these actors was Mel Gibson, whose audition impressed Miller and Matthews and earned him the role of Max. An apocryphal tale stated that Gibson went to auditions in poor shape following a fight, but this has been denied by both Matthews and Miller. Gibson's friend and classmate Steve Bisley, who worked with him in his only screen role, 1976's "Summer City", became Max's partner Jim Goose.