George Miller On Doing More “Mad Max”

Australian filmmaker George Miller delivered one of the great works of modern blockbuster cinema with 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road”. Last year’s prequel, “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” sadly wasn’t so well received by audiences even as it did get a lot of love from critics.

Unfortunately, it also seemed to halt any plans for the franchise’s future after taking in $173.8 million worldwide – less than half of what ‘Fury Road’ did despite costing about the same to produce.

Previously there had been talk of Miller considering “The Wasteland,” a second “Fury Road” prequel focusing on the days before Max Rockatansky was captured by Immortan Joe. In May last year however, Miller advised it had not yet been adapted into a screenplay and they were “waiting to see the reception on Furiosa”.

Speaking with Vulture recently, the celebrated director was asked if he has another installment in mind that he’d like to make. This time he says he already has a script done, but he also has other projects he’d like to tackle next:

“We’ve got another [‘Mad Max’] script, but having been doing this long enough where I’m habituated to storytelling, I find myself with way too many stories — not only in my head, but in the form of screenplays or at least very detailed notes that are within reach of screenplays. I’m a professional daydreamer, really. This was seen as my big deficit as a kid: ‘George would do better at school if he didn’t daydream so much’ was on my report card.

So, there’s lots of stories. Indeed, one of them is a Mad Max. It is not something I would do next, because there’s two things I’m keen to do next. But if for whatever reason the planets align, you can never tell. Too often, you’re lining up to do a movie and then something happens. Some things fall into place and some don’t, so all I can say is we’ll see.”

In October last year during “Venom: The Last Dance,” Tom Hardy was asked about potentially reprising his ‘Fury Road’ role for an additional film to which he told Screen Rant: “No, I haven’t been told anything about it yet, but obviously I’d love to do that … George already has a script called The Wasteland, which is like quite specific, so I’m aware of that. It depends on whether they’re making it.”

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