After decades of muddled worldbuilding, Mad Max: Fury Road successfully hit the reset button on George Miller’s blistering apocalyptic franchise. When the film arrived in 2015, fans hoped it would be enough to propel the franchise into the future... but Miller has only been interested in the past.
Last year, the director returned with the saga’s latest installment, Furiosa. A prequel to Fury Road, it traced the origins of Charlize Theron’s title heroine — now played by Anya Taylor-Joy — across 15 years. Miller planned to take a similar route with Mad Max himself: “We wrote a story about Max in the year before he got [to Fury Road],” the director revealed in 2024. “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.”
