submitted by George Poulos on 21.09.2007
...and the other half of Kennedy Miller, pictured in 1981, two years before his tragic death in a helicopter crash. George Miller's relationship with Byron Kennedy...makes Byron a true Philokytherian... From an article by.... Brook Turner The Australian Financial Review Magazine May 2007 Front cover, pp. 26-38. Curious George ....... Miller’s has always been a familial, often fraternal, enterprise. His first one-minute short was made with brother Chris. And it was at the Noyce workshop, after he and his twin John’s paths had diverged in their clinical years at medical school, that Miller met his MM partner fellow film fanatic Byron Kennedy, who became “like a brother”. Brother Bill, a lawyer by training, has co-produced everything from the Babe films to HF (a title he came up with). George Miller’s HF co-writers and co-directors included long-term collaborators John Collee, Judy Morris and Warren Coleman. Miller’s wife of 12 years, Margaret Sixel is also his film-editing partner. The couple have two sons. (Miller also has a daughter, Augusta, currently studying at NIDA, with his former wife, actress Sandy Gore). A tall, natural beauty, as un-Hollywood as her husband, the South African-born Sixel is “very influential in a low-key way”, says one friend of the couple. In fact, her husband credits Sixel with turning Babe around, declaring an early cut too episodic and lacking in narrative tension, and suggesting the linking devices of chapter headings and singing mice. Doug Mitchell, an accountant by training who came to KM 24 years ago as Kennedy’s protégée, has been so central to its fortunes since Kennedy’s death that Miller plans to change the company name to Kennedy Miller Mitchell. As Miller says: “You can’t run a country, you can’t run a business, you can’t run anything alone ... I’m very at ease collaborating; I think it’s because I had a twin brother with whom I spent every day for 24 years, so I’m very used to that dance that happens between individuals.” Others say the intense personal and professional bond Miller enjoyed with Kennedy — they founded KM together in 1983, just months before Kennedy’s tragic death in a helicopter accident — has been harder to replicate. After all, Miller has left the company name unchanged, until now. “Byron was his perfect partner,” Noyce says. “George has been the ultimate right brain, intuitive thinker, and Byron was left and right brain, and together they were the perfect filmmaking combination.” “Knowing George and loving George you get to hear wonderful stories about Byron Kennedy, and how perfect it was when their partnership began,” says Lynda Obst, who collaborated intensively with Miller on Contact, flying in for three months at a time she calls “the most fascinating 18 months of my life”. “I think there was a half missing for a really long time that [Margaret] has filled to some extent, but that is still unfilled to another extent.” Entire Australian Financial Review Magazine article George Miller. Notable Kytherian George Miller’s Filmography 2006 Happy Feet producer/director/writer 1998 Babe: Pig in the City producer/director/writer Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer (TV) producer The Clean Machine (TV) producer 1997 White Fellas Dreaming producer/director/writer 1995 Babe producer/writer Video Fool for Love producer 1992 Lorenzo’s Oil producer/director/writer 1991 Flirting producer 1989 Bangkok Hilton (TV) miniseries, producer Dead Calm producer/second unit director 1988 The Dirtwater Dynasty (TV) miniseries, producer 1987 The Year My Voice Broke producer Vietnam (TV) miniseries, producer The Riddle of the Stinson (TV) producer The Witches of Eastwick director Tausend Augen (Thousand Eyes) actor 1985 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome producer/director/writer 1984 Bodyline (TV) miniseries, producer The Cowra Breakout (TV) miniseries, producer 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie (segment four) director The Dismissal (TV) miniseries, executive producer/ director/writer 1981 Mad Max 2 director/writer/additional editor 1980 The Chain Reaction associate producer 1979 Mad Max director/writer 1971 Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 director/writer
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