“We had to wait 18 months and every return to the U.S. was 27 hours. I won’t do those any more”.
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In addition, last week he suggested that a movie focusing on Fury Road’s Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron, could also be developed. But that film followed the series’ creator running the franchise into a ditch like a drunken long-haul trucker; Miller is coming off the best one yet, so seriously, who wants to see a George Miller-less Mad Max? “I won’t do those anymore”. In previous interviews, Miller has entertained the notion of another installment, but has been careful to mention a second screenplay developed alongside Fury Road – unofficially known as The Wasteland – is not in fact the next chapter of the Mad Max legend. “‘Fury Road” was forever getting completed.
Sorry, folks. That means no more of this awesomeness. But let’s face it – Mad Max isn’t Star Wars.
Well, that’s rather unequivocal, and I don’t really know what else to say.
So, it isn’t “Mad Max” that made Fury Road the success it was at all. “But which one of the two stories will happen next, I’m not so sure”.
Now, knowing Hollywood, this won’t be the end of the franchise.
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With four Mad Max movies under his belt in a filmography that only includes nine feature films, the 70-year-old director probably has a few other stories he’d like to tell before riding through the gates of Valhalla. Hollywood doesn’t like letting successful things go, preferring instead to milk them until they’re dry, much like how Immortan Joe got Mother’s Milk out of his breeders.
