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David Laker is back on set for another day of shooting in Little River.

The bikers just keep rolling in! Thanks for showing up to Little River to help recreate the Interceptor chase scene.

Greeting the morning sun on Day Six.

The crew recreating a shot from the original Mad Max. This dead tree is still hanging around 45 years later.

Jason is going to run out of room in the cooler at this rate.

The walleyes are out in full force this morning. Keep up the good work, Jason.

One of the bikers looking effortlessly cool in between chase scene recreation takes.

This is Dale Bent, one of the stuntmen from the original Mad Max. With a job like that, it’s a miracle his limbs aren’t bent.

The team and all the bikers are soaking wet, but they had fun shooting, and that’s what matters.

Lucas’s bat may be small, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in barbed wire.

Not one, but two Interceptors! We’re digging the yellow, but our black one is still cooler.

Clint’s daughter Sienna, on Day Five of our journey, won the “captured moment of the trip” award. In Clunes, just behind Main Street, we gathered the team together and shot this incredible piece of key art.

Doug MacDonald met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

Clint and his riding partner prepping to recreate the chase scene in Clunes.

Leigh Andrew met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

Another member of the Clunes Biker Gang met the team on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

Colin Campbell met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

Adam Pratt met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

You’re driving down the interstate and this guy starts tailgating you. What’s your move?

The crew is on its way to Clunes, Victoria for Day Five. The small town has been a destination for Mad Max fans since Toecutter and his gang picked up the body of Nightrider from the train station in ’79 (even though there is no train station in Clunes).

The guys are starting off Day Four with a little stretch.

It’s the last day in Melbourne for the crew, and they got to thinking about why this trip is so important. For these guys, it’s more than just entertainment. It’s about connecting with the heroes on the forefront of pharma innovation.

Day Four interview with Grant Swart, General Manager at Mayne Pharma, on the edge of Melbourne’s Southbank.

Illustration of Tim Oldham – another Adama Nanguin Coulibaly original.

The boys looking stoic on their way to the first interview of the day in Southbank.

Today the crew met Tim Oldham, CEO of AdAlta, on campus at La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science to learn more about his company’s i-body technology.

Marc Gordon met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

Alan Potter met the team in Clunes on his “Humungus” war machine to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

Brett Kapitelli met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

Greg Bell met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

Cowboy met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

David Larter met the team in Clunes on a ’70s motorcycle to help recreate the biker scene from the original Mad Max film.

A touching moment for Nigel on Day 3 of Road to the Max at the Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute. Their team showed ours around the lab, where Nigel got up close and personal with some melanoma cells five years after his own battle with skin cancer.

Natalia is supporting the charge with the new cancer indications being monitored at ONJ.

Belinda, ONJ’s Philanthropy Manager, supports the charge with the new cancer indications being monitored at ONJ.

When Peter Robinson and the Superheroes Foundation take on a project, they do it right. Check out this perfectly weathered detailing on the car.

No, not these guys. But the team did get to meet Peter Robinson, Founder of the Superheroes Foundation, an organization that collects and rebuilds famous cars from movies, including this Ford Interceptor that was in Mad Max 2!

Connor is one of the senior lab researchers at ONJ, with a focus on cell therapies.

Erinna is supporting the charge with the new cancer indications being monitored at ONJ.

We had the pleasure of meeting with Jessica, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute, who is supporting the charge with the tireless effort of fundraising.

Doug is leading the lab as the research team continues to innovate at ONJ.

Louise Christian, Virginia Papandreou, Lily Alldridge, Anzari Atik, and Janus Relos from Accelagen, an up-and-coming CRO / Clinical Trial Organization which is already having an impact in early-stage clinical trials in Melbourne.

Getting up close and personal with all 600 horsepower of the Interceptor.

A little sampling of the current Primal Organix line of products, including a sneak peek of their forthcoming energy drink: Purus.

Day Two is well underway and we’ve already captured loads of incredible footage. Nigel and Phill are proud to see that Rocco is still repping England for the 2024 European Championship despite his new Australia locale.

Phill Neill has come all the way from London to join the crew on Road to the Max: Australia. As the event’s Producer, he’s assuming the role of Jim Goose for the next two weeks.

The road to discovering the next generation of therapeutic drugs and detection diagnostics is winding. Adama, Mark, Nigel, and Lucas are looking for those companies in St. Kilda, Melbourne.

The real star of this show is, of course, the Ford Falcon V8 Interceptor. We’ll be traveling 4,000 miles in this vehicle throughout the coming days.

For our third interview today, we spoke with Frank Giampieri, CEO of Primal Organix. We met on the beach at St. Kilda to discuss terpenes and their emerging therapeutics benefits.

A pleasure to meet and interview Sharon Charles, Business Development for APAC at ProPharma Group. Our area of choice was the Shrine of Remembrance, a green space in central Melbourne.