Mad Max film series director George Miller told Yahoo! He explained that post Mad Max: Fury Road, he wants to get away from big action films and make a small film.
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Miller himself admitted as much in an interview with this very site, confirming our sources’ suggestion that Miller’s involvement in a DC superhero movie depended a great deal on his interest in the stories he’s presented with.
Plans for the film have been put on hold three times before. The director, who is now basking in the success of Fury Road, did reveal a few details on his earlier take on Superman in the Justice League film he was planning with the studio a couple of years back. The first project in 2001 was thwarted by the 9/11 attacks and the second cancelled when the American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar, swallowing a huge chunk of their budget. “Not only with Max’s mask, which is a garden hoe, or taking [Coma-Doof Warrior’s] guitar, it’s a hospital bedpan at the base of it. Every vehicle every steering wheel was in a sense nearly a religious artefact…[they were] basically found objects, repurposed”.
“We were then rained out of Australia”, Miller said. The destination then chosen was the Namibian desert in South Africa, but in doing so it actually turned into a different movie, with a different script and set of characters.
Having been attached to the project throughout, Miller has revealed there is now enough material for two more films, with insiders in possession of two scripts.
There has been plenty said about “Fury Road’s” 12-year development process, tough filming conditions and spectacular physical effects.
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All that extra work is now paying off. Fury Road was a surprise hit, making just shy of $375 million worldwide and easily sparking interest from Warner Bros. about a follow-up.
