We’re just a few short weeks away from the Cannes world premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the anticipated prequel to George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. It took nine years to get to this point, but if we’re all so lucky, it won’t take nearly that long for the next one.
Speaking with EW, Miller confirmed that he’s writing another Mad Max prequel. This one would be set about a year before the events of Fury Road, whereas Furiosa is almost two decades earlier.
“In doing what we did in the preparation of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ we also wrote what happened to Max in the year before we encounter him in [that film],” Miller said. “And as we get towards the end of this movie, the chronology… Basically, we had to see that Mad Max was lurking around somewhere because we do know what happened. The writers know what happened to Mad Max in that year before, and we have a whole story of that, which I would like to do sometime if I get the chance.”
Miller would later add, “Well, we are certainly working on it. And as I say, we wrote that basically as a novella, and now we’ve got a chance, we will get that into a screenplay form, and then we’ll take it from there.”
So it sounds as if Furiosa will lead right up to the arrival of Mad Max onto the scene. Miller has taken significant breaks from the franchise but he seems fully into it right now. The question is whether he can get Tom Hardy back? Fury Road was a brutal production for everyone involved.
Furiosa opens on May 24th.
