Minutes after receiving Oscar nominations for producing and directing Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller today insisted that, contrary to recent reports, he won’t be turning his back on the long-running franchise. Even the proposed title Miller previously revealed for the next movie, “Mad Max: The Wasteland”, is also apparently in flux. But, according to Miller, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
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The filmmaker told TheWrap he was misquoted by the New York Post’s Page Six in “a completely garbled interview”. She completely got the wrong fragments of information that were just not true. Well, he has now clarified what he said, and that he is, in fact, planning on making more films. While it seemed a little dicey at the time – Miller had given no indication he was over the series before that – it still seemed believable that the 70-year-old director might really be second-guessing his commitment to two more MAX flicks at this stage of his life.
Miller was nominated for Best Director and as producer on Fury Road, which was nominated for Best Picture.
Surely, this will give Mad Max film something to cheer about. It’s certainly the ultimate form of redemption for the desert-set, grueling, practical effects heavy crucible that was Fury Road, whose $375 million global tally didn’t exactly light the world up like a modified flamethrower guitar.
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It was a helluva morning for Warner Bros. and “Mad Max: Fury Road”. “What happened to the other characters?” However, that didn’t stop “I won’t make more “Mad Max” movies” from spreading like wildfire. “They’re getting a real sense of cinema, very, very early”.
