‘Mad Max’ has lived in George Miller’s head for 45 years. He’s not done dreaming yet

CANNES, France (AP) — Only recently has George Miller realized just how influential his medical education was to the world of “Mad Max.”

Miller was briefly a doctor before finding filmmaking and his twin brother, whom he attended university with, remained one. As a resident at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, Miller saw people in birth and in death, in moments of, he says, “extremis.”

Extremis — a Latin word that literally translates as “at the point of death” — would be a fairly...