George Miller Has Written Another MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Prequel Story Focusing on Max

George Miller is deep in production on Mad Max: Furiosa, which is a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road that focuses on the badass character Furiosa. We don’t know what the future of the franchise holds after that, but Miller has already written another prequel story that will focus on Max Rocksteady.

While speaking with The AV Club, the filmmaker revealed: "We also wrote, not a screenplay, but almost in novel form, Nico Lathouris and I, what happened to Max in that year before, and that's something that we'll look at further down the track later. But, in telling each other the story of Furiosa, everything in Fury Road had to be explained. In my mind, I have a back story of the Doof Warrior, who plays the guitar. How could a blind man who all he can do is play a guitar, how does he get to survive in a wasteland where everybody is in extremis? How did he come to be there? So we wrote little stories for every character when we made Fury Road."

Miller went on to talk about how Furiosa's origin came to exist while making Fury Road saying: "When we wrote Mad Max, the task was to tell a story that was always on the run and to see how much the audience could pick up in passing. That was one of the tricks of Mad Max: Fury Road, that there would be references to things of where she's from, why they're doing things, but it was always on the run. There were very few moments of quiet. We never explained how she lost her arm. We never explain what the actual Green Place Of Many Mothers was. We never explained the workings of the Citadel. So we had the screenplay virtually complete before we shot Fury Road, and we did it because it arose out of wanting to explain to everybody who Furiosa was—to Charlize when she took on the role, and to all the actors and the designers and everybody else working on the Citadel and so on. The feeling was, gee, this is a pretty good screenplay, and then I kept saying to myself, 'if Fury Road works, I'd really like to tell this story.'"

And now he’s in the process of telling that story, and the fans can’t wait to see it! There’s a lot of hype about this movie, and I have no doubt it will be just as badass as Fury Road.

Warner Bros. describes the film, "As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home."

Mad Max: Furiosa will be released in theaters on May 24, 2024.