George Miller is Reportedly Going to Start Shooting His MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Sequel This Fall in Australia
An exciting new report has surfaced from Geeks WorldWide saying that George Miller is going to start shooting his long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road sequel this Fall in Australia!
The site has learned that “he’s officially been given the green light to film the new pic in Australia sometime in the late fall.” I imagine that Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron will reprise their roles as Max and Furiosa, but that hasn’t been officially announced yet. They’ve both said they will return, though!
Before he starts work on this next Mad Max movie, Miller wanted to finish his next film, Three Thousand Years of Longing. He talked about the film saying, “I’m not done with the Mad Max story and I think you have to be a multi-tasker and there’s certainly another Mad Max coming down the pike after this.”
The filmmaker also said, “There are two stories, both involving Mad Max, and also a Furiosa story. We’re still solving, we’ve got to play out the [Warner Bros.] thing, it seems to be pretty clear that it’s going to happen.” When previously talking about Furiosa, Miller said:
"Yeah, she’s a pretty compelling character so it would be great to tell her story. Her backstory is really interesting. We only allude to it in this movie because this movie is on the run; people don’t have much time for recreational talk. But you pick up, you have a sense of her having gone through stuff. That’s what the film is trying to do. You’re trying to put a lot of iceberg under the tip, I like saying. One of the things that’s really gratifying, people are reading the film more than just the surface — the events of the movie, and just picking up a lot of stuff underneath it, which is very deliberate......So in many ways, the audience is picking up a lot about Furiosa — or enough to intrigue. And she’s got an interesting story."
We don’t know which of the sequel ideas that Miller is moving forward with, but I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough. I’m just happy that Miller is finally making this sequel! It’s crazy that it’s taken this long for it to happen, but… better late than never!